Happyday1

Thank you everyone for replying to my post! Sorry I've taken so long to respond, my computer was acting up. So just to give you all an update, I've asked the educator to have me orient on day shift for the rest of my orientation (1month left). She approved and had me orienting day shift on an orthopedics/oncology floor. I started last week and I love love love the unit, not to mention my awesome preceptor! I worked only 3 shifts last week and I learned SO much compare to the month and half I'd been on nights. However, my excitement was crushed after meeting with my director for debriefing. I told her that I really enjoyed working day shifts and how I love my preceptor's teaching style and that I learned alot from her in just 3 days. Instead of being glad that I'm gaining something from orientation, my director replied with "I'm not going to transfer you over there." I didn't even say anything transferring!! FYI, she got hired onto the tele unit at the same time I got hired, so she's new and learning the ropes herself. It was the director of orthopedics/oncology who interviewed me and gave me the job (she was filling in the director spot on tele unit at the time). So my director decided that she's going to pull me off the orthopedics/oncology floor and have me orient on my unit (tele) and be with yet, ANOTHER preceptor. It's going to be my 4th preceptor in 2months!!! At this point in my orientation, I should feel as if I'm ready to be on my own, but every time I'm placed with a new preceptor I'm back to square one because I have to learn a whole new routine. Arg...

Hi everyone, I've read somewhere on this forum that NSO has a policy coverage of 1,000,000/6,000,000. I just tried applying on their website and I didn't see anything close to 1,000,000/6,000,000. The max they had was 100,000/300,000, which I was automatically defaulted to. Did I miss something on their website or did they reduce their coverages? I'm in TX, if anyone knows about this, I'd love to hear from them. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm a new grad and I've been working night shift on a tele/med-surg floor for about a month. The hospital is giving me 3 months of orientation with a preceptor. So far, I love what I do (taking care of the patients) and even though there's a lot I don't know, I feel like work isn't challenging enough and I'm bored on my shift. The first 4-5hr of the shift is okay, but through out the night it's very slow and there's so much down time. Is night shift usually like this?? I don't like it all because 1. I'd end up sitting around and being bored, 2. the nurses tend to group together and gossip ALOT which I don't like. and 3. I feel like I'm not getting the experience I need to become competent. As a new grad, I want to get my feet wet as much as possible and I don't know if night shift allows for that. I'm thinking of asking for a transfer to another unit. My question is, would it make me look bad since I was hired to cover for the shortage on the unit I'm on now? Or would the director try to fire me since it'd come off as I don't want to work on her floor? I really don't like my unit, my coworkers, my preceptor, my director...I don't know what to do.