hakunamatata BSN, RN

I have been an RN for ~3 years now in multiple specialties, and just applied to a PMHNP MSN program. I've always found that I love psych, although I'm not currently working in that. I actually got so exhausted with nursing that I went back to bartend...

Alright new grads, I am a straight shooter and a bit of a cynic (I like to call myself a realist, personally) - but that is possibly why I scored myself an RN job with a residency, before I graduated, on the floor that I wanted and chose. This is gea...

I could use some serious help and appreciate any responses. I am a visiting hospice nurse and have a patient at an ALF that has a now Stage III clean pressure ulcer. Multiple issues - no one seems to know the best treatment, and I cannot for the life...

Hi there - I'm a hospice nurse/case manager and haven't had much bedside experience with pressure ulcers in years, and would love an opinion. I have a patient in ALF who has had issues with incontinence dermatitis on his buttocks/sacrum for awhile, a...

Hi all, I've been a nurse for almost 4 years now and started my career at a major Level I trauma/teaching hospital doing acute med-surg, that was back in 2012-2013. I then worked at a free clinic doing mainly clinical trial management and routine pri...

OP, just read your post - did not read any replies. Here is my initial though, day after day, when scrolling these forums and posts: It takes someone with true compassion to post their potential flaws on the internet, to a bunch of strangers on the i...

Hi all, RN for over two years and just going back to bedside the the 12-hr shifts, scheduled to "rotate" (we get to pick, and usually works out OK). I am about to be off orientation and trying to decide the best way to schedule myself, and trying to ...

Hi guys! I have two job offers right now and due to scheduling, it looks like I'm going to take the job on a surgical-oncology floor at a big teaching hospital. I used to work general medicine at another major hospital and found it very stressful. I'...

I have two job offers on the table, and having a dilemma. One is a *great* job and is 4 10 hour shifts, M-F, no weekends or holidays (so, one random weekday off each week). The other is still ok, not as great sounding as first, and is 3 12's, and sel...

Need help folks: have two job offers, and while it sounds crazy, I am likely going to pick based on schedule. Both jobs seem great and do-able to me. Job A: 3 12-hr's, self-scheduling. Job B: 4 10-hr's, M-F, a random weekday off each week. No week...

Agree with all the other posters. I'm from Louisville and I'll tell you that Nashville is amazing. I just started over as a young, single person in Charleston, and I'm happy I decided to move for lifestyle. You sound a lot like me. I also went to a c...

Hi there! What a post So the first thing I thought was...huh? So she is a staff member at Floor B? It seems like if it was a decent place, you'd automatically accept a job offer there, since that's your "home". Is there something about it that tur...

I have been an RN for 2 years now, just relocated to SC and I luckily have three offers that are all very different. My experience includes acute medicine (at a major teaching hospital), psychiatry at a few different places, home health, and clinical...

From my research, there are a lot of people on here that totally freak about the NCLEX. All throughout school, up until I took it, and now that I've passed...it was never very important to me and everything about it was anti-climactic after all the t...

Hi all, needing some advice from those who know their stuff. I am an RN, have been for about 2 years. Did 1 year in acute care in a hospital, hated it; then got my dream job in clinical research. I run pharmaceutical trials in a small office in San F...

Ok - odd career path due to drastically different economies in drastically different areas - I am leaving my first nursing job after 9 months to relocate for personal reasons. I did Med/Surg at a big teaching hospital. Hated it, horrible. Hospital po...

Ha! That's what my gut is telling me. Your response is super helpful :)

Missouri isn't awful. I have been a nurse for 9 months and working two separate jobs, a full-time and PRN position. Not in my ideal location, but made a crapload of money, and now my experience has me relocating to where I want to be.

My referral e-mail wasn't, unfortunately. Boo. It seemed to good to be true! Very happy for all that got positions though - how exciting and congrats! :)

I did too...scared me to death before I opened it, haha! My eyes are glued to my phone until I get a call or an e-mail

I am in San Francisco (city). I picked Geriatric Psych as my #1 because it truly is my passion - it's what I did my senior synthesis in nursing school so it's obvious I'm not picking it for other reasons. The people were wonderful, the campus is beau...

I am about to go down for an interview today, they just called this morning. Stoked, in a minimal way to describe how I feel!

Hi all, Just landed a job at a SNF - I'm still a newer grad, coming from a busy Med/Surg floor at a hospital - I know things will be different, but I'm curious about the ratio. I'll be on day shift, and they said there will be 4 CNA's I'll be supervi...

Thank you all for the feedback, and the honest feedback. It's unfortunately a huge step forward for a lot of personal reasons, so I won't be able to say no. I am very nervous, but, I network for myself well - so I hope that if it ends up being "horre...

Hi all, About to move to my dream location but am making an odd career change to do so - I have a little less than a year experience at a Top 10 Teaching Institution on a busy busy Med-Surg floor, and am going to be making the move to a SNF. It doesn...