It is true that many nurses are charting on things they have not done such as turning a patient or doing a complete reassessment of a patient; the list is endless. I blame this on the new charting...
I got my ADN at 55..I am now 60. Finding a job was not an issue. In fact a I had an easier time then the young kids in my class. I worked as a telemetry nurse my first year and then switched to psych...
I am a 59 year old psych nurse who has not done any medical nursing since graduating from nursing school 4 years ago. I love my job but there aren't many places to transition to in the psych field...