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So I’m am super excited! I’ve been a nurse for 8 years. In the healthcare field for almost 20!! I’ve been kinda trying to find my calling all this time. Always wanted to try peds but was always nervous about the idea. I’ve spent the last several years in dialysis (acute and chronic) but took the jump into private duty peds and now just accepted a job in the hospital environment in peds. Anyway its a huge jump, I’m excited because I’m pretty sure this IT for me! I’m hoping to honestly retire at this hospital working in pediatrics (in 30ish years ?). Anyway, I need help to get up to speed super quick! Please share any must have apps, books, references, refresher courses, tips, experiences must see YouTube videos. Anything that can help me get up to speed as quickly as possible. I will be give an 8 week orientation due to my inexperienced. But I don’t start for 3 weeks so this is an excellent opportunity to really dig in and study.

Can you ask HR about what kind of repayment options you may have?

You are in a rural position and the clinic sounds maybe like a new clinic if you all are only MWF. In addition, its very common to start an RN in a pod for at least 6 months to get the basics prior to letting them charge. What you are describing is very typical. I am in a new, rural community myself and a manager. I bring all new people on with the understanding that to get full time hours they will have to drive the distance to other facilities. That is at least until we grow past MWF only.

I've been an RN since 2011. Prior to that a medical lab tech for 5+ years. I've been in the same specialty almost since the beginning other than a fairly short stent in Med-Surg. I am a dialysis RN and have moved from acute dialysis nurse, to chronic dialysis nurse and now into management. However, I've been burnt out with dialysis for a really long time. I stay because I'm good at it, to be frank. I have considered on several occasions jumping into home health or private duty, mostly because I feel as though I have lost my nursing skills. Additionally, I'm in a masters program for nurse educator and feel that in order to teach, I'm not well served in such a specialty field unless I plan to teach in this field. I am really worried about jumping into something and being way over my head and that creating a liability for the patient, myself and my employer. But I also know that I'm not learning anything new by staying where I am at. Any suggestion on my next step? I am thinking of making a move after the beginning of the new year. I have a little over a year left of my master program. Thanks for any help.

I took a job last August at a local hospital that offered a residency program and the fee for leaving after the program is 10000. However, If I stay for 2 years they would wave this fee. I have decided to leave after the program and am being faced with having to pay this whole fee up front. They will not take payments. I feel that this contract lures in graduate nurses that are these days hard pressed to find work and then it is used to keep them unhappily in a job that severely overworks them. With no way to escape I have been left with severe anxiety. Is there any thing I can do. I am in a non-union state.

When you apply for another license are you giving up your original compact license for say a california or washington license or do you get to keep both? Also is there any additional testing or education required to tranfer to these states?

I just had this question!!! So glad to find it was already asked. I just started adding raw fruit and veggie juice about three times a day to my diet. One of my main ingredients is spinach and other big Vit K contributors. I was running on the treadmill last night when all of a sudden I got a small but very painful blood clot in my finger tip. I too am on birth control and then started to freak out, took an aspirin and today I am eating lots of fish. I am not too worried about it as today the blood clot looks more like bruise and is not red, hot, swollen, and painful like it was. I am not sure if its the birth control or my new diet or the combination of the two I need to change. I just graduated from nursing school and have not started working yet so I do not have insurance so I am trying to deal with this on my own for now. If something else happens though I will surely go get a medical opinion on the matter.

Feeling you pain here in Texas

I realize this post is over a year old. I just wanted to add that I too am looking at PNP possibly to work with Autism. I also wanted to second the opinion on the vaccination issue, that many people are very uneducated as to the discussion of alternative vaccination schedules. In personal experience, my oldest son has Autism, classic, moderate to severe with aggressive behavioral problems requiring medicinal management. So when my youngest son was born, I had read many different theories regarding the autism spectrum and had decided on following an alternative vaccination schedule. I obtained affidavits from the state in which I live, exempting my children from being required for vaccination and came to an agreement with my son's pediatrician regarding this schedule. We were able to space out his vaccinations fairly effectively for about two years. However, at my son's last visit the nurse practitioner, whom we do not usually see, forced my husband to consent to 5 vaccinations to include MMR at one time. When he explained about the affidavit and previous agreement with the head pediatrician she said that it was her call, because it was her license and that if my husband were to leave the office without having all 5 vaccinations, she would report him for child neglect. Long story short, my husband, with out being able to talk to me first, folded under the pressure of be threaten and my beautiful son was vaccinated. Hopefully, nothing will become of it and hopefully my worst nightmare will not come true. It is issues like this that make we want to work in this field. To hopefully raise awareness to these types of issues. And for anyone else reading, please, even if you do not believe vaccinations have anything at all to do with Autism, respect the wishes of the family. Be culturally sensitive.