ringtail RN

Thank you so very much! Your note was reassuring and your advice to get experience volunteering was great! Thank you for taking the time to reply. Sincerely, Ringtail RN

Thanks to everyone who replied, and reminding me to be grateful that I have a job; it is very hard to get a job where I am too. I am going to keep an open mind and trust that when, and if I need to leave, someone will give me a chance to learn the basics that I did not get during my year in psych. The other areas I like are dialysis and surgery. I am glad all nurses is here. It helps to hear other nurses thoughts and encouragement and it means a lot to me that people took the time to reply, it cheered me up this morning. ringtail (grateful and little less teary new RN:) additional thoughts and suggestions still welcome!

Thanks so much for reminding me to take a deep breath. I Know it will work its way out and that I will learn a lot. I like the patients and feel comfortable in psych but not inspired. My only other question is this, on my unit we do not have any medical cases, meaning we don't really do anything with physical assessments, wounds, breathing treatments..., and very little with lab values. Do you think that after this year or so, any other hospital unit would hire me on knowing that I still needed to learn all of the basics. That is my real fear, that I won't be able to move to another unit because I lack the skills needed. Thanks again, Ringtail

I graduated from nursing school with my BSN this past May. I did very well, but did not gain a lot of confidence, and felt nervous on the floor. I accepted a residency in Psychiatry in January, when we had to choose. Since that time I have become more confident and realized that Psychiatry is not for me. My first day on the unit I was overwhelmed with the feeling that I was in the wrong the place, it was terrible. I feel very trapped and am unable to change where my residency is. I am really interested in Diailysis nursing and realize that it will be hard for me to get there as it is best to have critical care or medsurge at the least. I put my whole heart into nursing school, i returned at an older age, and I am very sad to not be excited about where I am starting. I am afraid it will be impossible for me to move to another area when my residency is done. Does anyone have any words of advice that might be helpful or has anyone on experienced this. Thanks