claireb

Hello, I have an interview tomorrow at a medspa. I was wondering how I should prepare? I have a few years RN experience, but no medspa experience. Also, the medspa is in the Bay Area, I am thinking of requesting $40 an hour? does that sound reasonable since I have no experience in that particular field? Any other input/advice about aesthetic nursing I would love to hear! Thank you!

WOW thank you so much for the helpful responses. as it turns out, I haven't even gotten spoken to about it (yet). maybe it is clear I learned from my mistake and my boss is looking the other way!! THank you soo much everyone, helped me get through an anxiety ridden weekend. :)

So... I graduated in 2007. I worked in a doctor's office for two years right out of school, and have been searching for an inpatient position since graduating. I FINALLY got a job, it's an hour and a half commute from home, and its in a behavioral health facility with a psych intensive and gero-psych ITU. There is one RN on each unit, acting as charge nurse and unit supervisor. we also have 1-2 LVNs who help pass meds. I had seven shifts of orientation, then they let me loose. I have worked about 10 shifts on my own.It has been extremely challenging being in charge when I have so little inpatient experience... but I have really been powering through it, staying safe, staying positive, brushing off when co-workiers are rude. So today we had 12 patients with extremely high acuity on the gero unit. I was overwhelmed from the second I got there today, and I only had one LVN with me which was hard already, considering that we were understaffed, had several discharges at once, then one patient started a fight with the other, and there were injuries. So... I had to do all these incident reports (never done one before, I had some help). There was a patient on the unit who was involved and injured so I had to call their family member. The patient's daughter said it seemed like sometimes ativan made the patient more agitated. I told the daughter I would let the doctor know and wrote it on the physician notification form. THEN, the patient got really agitated, again, and I called the doctor to get an emergency IM because the patient was kicking and spitting. I called the doctor and he ordered Haldol 5mg and Ativan 1 mg IM. I didn't mention to the doctor what the patient's daughter said... there had been no evidence of it from what I had seen, and I thought the doctor would brush it off.... we gave the injection and the patient got extremely agitated, it was even a code grey... I feel awful, I fessed up right away... I KNOW it was a huge mistake, I just think the combination of being so overwhelmed and understaffed clouded my judgement.... I HATE myself right now... I finally got a job and I am so scared I am going to get FIRED! I am almost considering leaving the field over it! I feel like i must be a horrible nurse and never want to feel this way again. Any thoughts or advice? anything would be helpful please!!

Well thank you so much for the responses!! really it made my week and helped me not feel so alone :) Good luck to everyone in your future careers!!

I am incredibly scared to work as a nurse in a hospital... I worked at the hospital in school and, honestly, never really liked it... I thought I could work outpatient as a nurse and do public health/education/research or something along those lines. Or do psychiatric nursing, that is another goal of mine. All these jobs require acute care in a hospital setting experience... Well, I got a job in a doctor's office and I liked it (didn't LOVE it) but I felt inadequate as an RN because I didn't have the hospital work experience. I have been there for two years. Now I am working on getting into a new grad program at a hospital for and am absolutely PETRIFIED to be a nurse! I am scared I will forget to do something or make a medication error and hurt a patient. So scared! It actually keeps me up at night sometimes and I don't know if this is normal and I am just worrying too much or if I should think about another career. I just would feel like such a failure if I had to give up the degree I worked so hard for! This is all eating me up inside I am torn between just "sucking it up", and realizing these feelings may be telling me something!? I am smart and thoughtful and hard-working... maybe just too nervous? Any thoughts would be so greatly appreciated, I am torn!!

I am a new grad BSN. But I have already passed the NCLEX, etc so I am an RN too. Yeah the job market is totally DRY in California, I am considering trying Texas... anyone know specifically which states/regions are in true need of nurses??

I am an RN-BSN new graduate and am having a tough time finding a new grad program in California. Does anyone know where they are hiring in California? I am living in San Jose area now and could move if needed. I have been looking for awhile: making phone calls, submitted online applications, etc all without call backs. I am starting to get really worried! Thanks for your help guys.

So I graduated a year and a half ago, have my BSN-RN. There were no new grad programs right away so I started working in a pretty low-key job- an allergy and asthma clinic. Some acute situations but pretty low-key for the most part, a lot of education, etc. I have stayed longer than I intended to (a year and a half) and now am antsy to do a new grad program! problem is I called about 20 hospitals in my area and all are on hiring freezes or are just not offering new grad programs because of the recession. What do I do? I don't feel qualified to get a position as an RN on a med surg floor without a year of acute hospital experince! Would it be an impossible transition to attempt to get a job without doing a new grad program? would they even hire me? HELP I am willing to do almost any kind of work but kind of need to stay local. Any suggestions??? how do i get from here to the hospital?