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oh and sorry MatthewMorgan, i just noticed that my post seemed to direct you. I was actually referring to "RN Queen".
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In my personal experience of having 2 kiddos, I flew with both of them (flight and surface) and I was extremely sick during the first trimester. I took Zofran around the clock. At the end of my second trimester, i started outgrowing my jumpsuit and had to get creative with my new look when I couldn't zip my suit up and going to to the bathroom often was a chore. Thankfully, my nausea/vomiting was relatively gone in the second trimester. But towards the end it was really uncomfortable to transport after 36 weeks. The jarring around and the unpredicitability of how long you were going to gone on transport and back was grueling on the stomach (hungry), or bladder. Cause it's not so convenient at times when you have a critically ill patient, and your having issues. My friends that transport as well, were in the same boat as me. It is hard to say that you will be able to transport the whole time till your due date, that just depends on your MD recs and what your body is telling you. Then you are gone for maternity leave, which will leave the team short again. And the big question debate is if you are planning to breastfeed or not? If no, then it will be easier for your transition back to work. If you plan to breastfeed ( I did), in my experience it was pretty tough. Some work days were great, they were light and you were able to do what you had to do. But somedays were hairy and you could only get away like 1 or two times. Often, I had to pump on way to a call (discretely). It can be done, but I remember I was always stressed and praying that the pager wouldn't go off while I was doing my thing. In all fairness, if your young and recently married, I am sure your employer has thought about that, and you can't live your life around work and miss out on the things that are important to you. But who knows, your priorities may take a turn and change for what your thought you wanted after you have a little one. I can tell you I love my job, but I could also give it up for what my family needs. That is a far cry from what I would have said prior to having kiddos. Hope this helps.
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Sorry to hear! How about correctional facilities? Also try getting involved with your local TNA chapter or specialty such as AWHONN since you did labor and delivery, or whatever interests you now for your nursing career. I attend local chapter meetings, and its a great way to network and usually meet managers, and higher level personnel that can help direct you in the right direction.
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From your previous posts to other forums, it appears you have failed to mention that maybe it was easier for your to obtain a job at the place you work at now because you were an LVN or had hospital experience? It is expected that you would have the upper hand on "networking" if you already work with potential co-workers on a weekly basis. Clinical assignments are set up differently for each nursing school, just because you have a 6 week assignment to a facility in a specific concentration for example such as pediatrics, doesn't mean that you are guaranteed working with the same individuals or meeting "essentail" contact persons to develop a professional relationship to use for networking. Your contact time in the ICU might only be 1 day, ER 1 day, each acute care floor specialty x 1 day. Also, I do not agree with your statement: "if you have applied yourself (not just tagging along) while in nursing school, you will get a job within two months of graduation! It may not be your dream job, but it will be a nice launchpad". Making this statement, leaves no other reason why you don't have a job, except that your lazy and you rode on the coat tails of others in nursing school. Were you trying to be mean? or you are completely oblivious that there might be other reasons out there? Look at my personal perspective: I have a sis that is going through a hard time finding a RN job now. She is one of the most hardest working people I know. Someone who gets up everyday, is an avid runner (runs 3 miles in the morning/night), takes care of two kids, went to school fulltime without a fuss, a dutiful wife/mom, holds three degrees in hand, and left her past career to pursue a new profession because of several personal choice reasons and for what it stands for. I do not consider her to be a lazy, nor do I think she lacks attitude as to why she does not have a job now. Its not solely about who you know that can help land you a job, it's who else are you are in competition with at the time.