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Oops. When I say "7 month threshold" I mean that I have been unemployed for that long.

I share the frustration expressed here, and I am a nurse who has a year of experience. I just passed the 7 month threshold. Something has got to give. I urge everyone I know who thinks about going into nursing NOT to at this point. WORK. Make m...

I may have an opportunity to work as software consultant with a company that makes EMR software ... I'm just afraid that it wouldn't be a great investment in my nursing career, since it doesn't involve any direct patient care. Has anyone here taken...

I am in the NYC area. Licensed in CT and in NY. One year experience as an RN and another year experience as a CNA, both in oncology and hospice. I've been unemployed for 7 months in 2 days ... losing hope ... crying often ... unable to pay bills ...

I am a registered nurse with one year experience. I have been unemployed for 7 months (I've been a nurse for almost 2 years). I apply for jobs every day. I get rejection emails every day. I can't pay for my student loans, and the interest is pilin...

I am not glad that nurses are having a hard time, but I am so grateful to know that I am not the only one. I have only been a nurse for a year and a half, and my jobs have been so disappointing. My first job started off well, because the hospital h...

I did my application for WakeMed online, and then delivered my resume and a cover letter in a folder to the unit where I wanted to work. I just gave it to the unit secretary to give to the unit manager. I got the job, but I also knew people who wor...

I get terrible anxiety attacks at work, and as often as I have tried to just 'calm down' when they start coming on, they often feel completely uncontrollable. I am prescribed a prn benzodiazepine, but I only use it when I am not on the job. I am c...

I have been a nurse for only a year, and I feel your pain. I am moving back to my hometown in NY (from NC) VERY soon. Already applied for licenses in NY and CT. It is so sad, depressing, and discouraging. I feel like I worked my butt off to bec...

Oh yeah. Manager surely had the whole weekend off and hasn't gotten to it yet. Either way, I agree that you should call. Good advice from hiddencatRN!

Wow. I am moving back to NY very soon, so that is very scary to hear. It sounds very unjust!

Yikes is right! I have been told that there are a lot of Kaiser positions available, and I am about to take my very first travel assignment pretty soon -- I won't go to Kaiser!

Love your quote, JamieLee

I am nurse in my first year as an RN, and I have ADHD "Severe Type" (according to the Duke ADHD Program). I have been suffering from crippling anxiety on the job. I go into the bathroom to cry and often have panic attacks where I find it difficult...

How is everyone doing? I left the hospital environment and am loving my job in home health. It isn't stress-free, but I get to deal with one patient at a time. It has made a huge difference in my life!

I haven't ever heard of it being called a 'residency' before, but I was in the new nurse grad program at WakeMed. They called it the Nurse Fellows program. They have hired newgrads for positions in CCU in the last few years. It is very competitive...

I think that surgical services may be best for me, and I feel the same way that you do, having ADHD and working on a busy hospital floor with 5-6 patients.

I have issues, and I am an RN!!! I have learned my lesson about sharing my disability with people at work. I will never do it again. It seems like people found more and more things wrong with me when I told them I had ADHD. I also had a coworker t...

I haven't been in this site in a while and I am glad that some people replied to my message! Thanks to all of you. I am doing better than I was -- as in, I am coping a lot better than I was. I have a gracious manager and supervisors on my floor, an...

sistasoul -- You just told my story! (only I am on an ortho/oncology floor -- pain management is a beetch when it is EVERY patient you have, and when nothing ever seems to work well enough for many of them, AND you're struggling to get everything to...

I have, and I take Lexapro for anxiety and use Adderall XR as of now. I don't want to take a benzo on the job, so I don't take the Librium prn that was prescribed for me . I suppose that I should try another SSRI, but I am afraid of trying somethin...

It IS the real deal -- I passed! Wow. I really felt like I had failed when I left.

I was so scared that maybe they had fixed it, but it worked for me -- I PASSED!!!!!!! GLORY BE TO GOD!!

I used the board for MANY questions, and I didn't have any calcs. I would write 1,2,3,4 and why I thought which ones were good or bad answers next to them. It really helped, because then I would cross out the ones that I definitely knew were wrong ...

AWESOME!!!