Nurselala8

Hi everyone! I'm a new DNP student specializing in FNP. I just completed my first week of classes. :) are there any other DNP student out there?

Hi nurses!, I had a question. So I'm a fairly new nurse with 9 months of experience. Before I was a nurse, I was a CNA at nursing home/skill nursing facility for a year. Than when I got my RN license, they hired me right away as a nurse. That was great as a new nurse to have a job right away, but was awful there. (Overworked, understaffed, horrible management, etc, etc). So I started applying again and landed a job 3 months ago at a long-term acute care hospital. I was excited at first because of the term "hospital" but what I've come to find out is that it's basically a glorified nursing home. There are many pros to working there like way more experience than I got at the nursing home, but the problems I had in the previous facility remain (overworked, understaffed, management isn't as helpful as they state, barely any break out so I'm basically running around for 12 hours straight, getting low censused at least once a pay period, etc etc.) I never quit my nursing home job so I'm there only as float (picking up 1 or 2 shifts a month), but I've been there for a total of 9 months. At the long term hospital, I've been there for 3 months now. My QUESTIONs: When I start applying, do I include both job on my resume? Will interviewers give me a hard time about "job hopping"? How do I answer questions about why I'm applying again? Please help! Thank you! PS. I have an associates in nursing, making it way harder to land a good job. I'm working on my bachelors though, I should have my degree in less than a year.

I'm not sure about stats, but the program is great, although it's just very very time consuming. There's alot of reading and careplans to do, along with learning new skills and practicing them. My advice is to not put things off and try your best (even though it's not always possible) to keep up. Leaving things off 'til the last minute makes things way more stressful. Also makes friends there, having study groups and people you can talk to about assignments, etc is a GREAT help. Good luck!

first semester you only have 1 clinical a week and that starts weeks after you've started. I'm in my 3rd semester and I have 2 days of clinical, 1 day of skills lab (lecture and hands on), and 2 days of another class (lecture).

I've been waiting to do this all day! Good thing you're finally out of the hospital!

I'm currently a student there. To be honest, it's extremely time consuming but doable. You just need to be completely dedicated and have some de-stressers in your life haha :) it's the truth.