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Hi, if you look for jobs that are posted for drug safety nurse, claims revewer, or licensed healthcare communicator. Pharmacuetical companies and health insurance companies hire nurses. I work for a healthcare information company. I am due in a few weeks and have postponed my job hunt, at least intil after the baby. I dont think ill need to do a refresher course, Ive actually gone on a few interviews for home healthcare agencies and correctio.s nursing and have neen offered ever job Ive interviewed for. But declined them b/c I wany to enjoy baby when he gets here....u only see them grow up once. So I plan to look for a part time or per diem job, when Im ready. Good luck with your job hunt....literally everyday spend at least an hour applying to jobs and u will find one soon. Dont mind my spelling and grammar...im on my cell phone, sorry.

@ C300RN, congrats. I actually found the job on either career builder or craigslist. Look for positions like licensed healthcare communicator or clinical research ambassador, or clinical research associate....I hope this helps you. See my only issue is this none clinical job is my first nursing job so, if I decide to take an extended leave to take care of the baby....and decide which I want to, go into a clinical setting no one will hire me b/c I wont have the clinical experience.

I guess my issue is that I live in an area that is pretty congested with nurses and jobs are hard to come by. Any jobs in my area...even in clinical research, require at least a year or more of clinical experience. Yes, my job is really cushy nothing is life or death but the job is an hour from where I live, I'm getting no clinical experience, and I'm only making $20 per/hr. I just feel like I didn't go through an accelerated 15 month BSN program as well as all my other education to only make that much and to not utilize all the knowledge and skills I acquired in nursing school. I'm just really confused and I don't know what to do. I know I'm pregnant an I should be taking it easy but, I just feel like I'm missing out on something more.

Thanks everyone for your input. I have a lot to think about.

Hi, I graduated nursing school September 2010 w/ my BSN. I have two previous degrees in Biology and Psychology and my previous work experience is customer service and private pharmacy compounding. I am currently working as a licensed healthcare communicator(I just started working for this company in May...this is my first nursing job). I work as a nurse but not in a traditional setting. My company is contracted by pharmaceutical companies to respond to medical information inquires from healthcare professionals and the public on various products, as well as recognize and do first line documentation of product quality complaints and adverse events for internal client use and FDA. I am 4 months pregnant (I'm due in December and this is my first pregnancy) time is going by and I have no actual clinical experience besides academic. I also completed some additional courses at a local hospital b/c I enjoy learning and I figured they would make me more promotable (critical care course, and dysrhythmia course, I also have my ACLS and BLS). So my question is should I seek employment in a clinical setting now even though I may end up taking either an extended leave of absence/ or quitting for like a year ...just so I can have that experience to put on my resume. Or should I stay in my current position since it is a comfy corporate nursing job and wait till I am ready to pursue and have time to invest in a clinical position??? My other questions are what time frame do potential employers determine is too long w/o clinical experience that they would require or want to see someone take a nursing refresher course? (which are pretty expensive from what I've come across) Being Pregnant what type of clinical nursing positions should I pursue??? I have 2 interviews this Monday for home health care agencies....what should I be concerned about with this type of work and being pregnant. And what are potential questions I should ask? I don't want to say I'm pregnant b/c I feel like it might ruin my chances of getting hired anywhere ....my current job doesn't even know b/c I don't want them to think that I'm only there short term...I figure I'll say something when I start to show.... Just for FYI...my dream nursing jobs would be working in the OR, nurse researcher, forensic nurse, or working for a pathologist....any suggestions for getting my foot in the door to any of these positions besides just continually applying??? Sorry I have soooo many questions, hope someone out there could offer good advice. Thank you in advance for taking the time and responding to my post.

Hi, I graduated nursing school September 2010 w/ my BSN. I have two previous degrees in Biology and Psychology and my previous work experience is customer service and private pharmacy compounding. I am currently working as a licensed healthcare communicator(I just started working for this company in May...this is my first nursing job). I work as a nurse but not in a traditional setting. My company is contracted by pharmaceutical companies to respond to medical information inquires from healthcare professionals and the public on various products, as well as recognize and do first line documentation of product quality complaints and adverse events for internal client use and FDA. I am 4 months pregnant (I'm due in December and this is my first pregnancy) time is going by and I have no actual clinical experience besides academic. I also completed some additional courses at a local hospital b/c I enjoy learning and I figured they would make me more promotable (critical care course, and dysrhythmia course, I also have my ACLS and BLS). So my question is should I seek employment in a clinical setting now even though I may end up taking either an extended leave of absence/ or quitting for like a year ...just so I can have that experience to put on my resume. Or should I stay in my current position since it is a comfy corporate nursing job and wait till I am ready to pursue and have time to invest in a clinical position??? My other questions are what time frame do potential employers determine is too long w/o clinical experience that they would require or want to see someone take a nursing refresher course? (which are pretty expensive from what I've come across) Being Pregnant what type of clinical nursing positions should I pursue??? I have 2 interviews this Monday for home health care agencies....what should I be concerned about with this type of work and being pregnant. And what are potential questions I should ask? I don't want to say I'm pregnant b/c I feel like it might ruin my chances of getting hired anywhere ....my current job doesn't even know b/c I don't want them to think that I'm only there short term...I figure I'll say something when I start to show.... Just for FYI...my dream nursing jobs would be working in the OR, nurse researcher, forensic nurse, or working for a pathologist....any suggestions for getting my foot in the door to any of these positions besides just continually applying??? Sorry I have soooo many questions, hope someone out there could offer good advice. Thank you in advance for taking the time and responding to my post.

thanks sirI...I'm new to this

Thanks for the advise. I thought the same thing....that I should just leave it alone and be glad to be out of there. (people that I had been talking to (who are not in healthcare....were telling me I should complain to HR(??), so I figured I would throw it out there and ask) I really need to do some soul searching and figure out what I wanna do with myself. I am still very interested in research, I also like forensics (during my undergrad I was in the forensics program but then strayed from it to do a dual bachelors in Bio and Psych)

Do you think it would be wise to file some sort of complaint about the way I was treated....? And who would I complain to?? I feel as though if they were talking negatively about me since the second week of orientation then they had already formulated an assumption about me and were just waiting for me to make a big mistake in order to fire me. If they were noticing incidents that they didn't like during week 2 then I feel as though I should have been confronted week 2 instead of week 9. So that I could make changes and improve whatever behaviors they felt were not to their standards...?

For those of you who didn't read my previous thread titled "need help", I just recently got fired from my job working on a very busy PCU. I have been doing some thinking and decided I don't want to work on a busy floor/ I may not even want to work at a hospital right now. Anyway, my first question is should I put the job I got fired from on my resume? (I was there for only 9 weeks, it was my first and only nursing job....I am a new grad)??? 2nd question is I have always been interested in research..not only do I have my BSN but I also have a BA in biology and psychology. I don't really know where to start looking for a nursing research position or the terms that are commonly used when searching for a job in this field. Is there anyone out there who can help me get started with this search. My third question is does anyone know of any other nursing jobs that are not at a hospital that I could apply for besides doctors offices?? For those of you who did read my previous thread and responded, thank you so much for the support...I really need it at this time. I am still so upset about the way things were handled. But things happen for a reason, this may have been for the best.

So, today at our meeting (once again w/ the nurse manager, clinical educator, and clinical assistant) I told them my plan was to learn from this mistake and move forward. To always assure that I have the right patient, right drug, that I know what I'm giving and why I'm giving it. (ect). And that nursing to me is giving comprehensive care and treating my patients the same way I would want to be treated. (b/c the NM wanted to know what nursing meant to me) Nurse manager begins to ask me if I was aware that the orientation process included what others said about me. I said of course I did (as I replayed in the back of my mind all the good things people have been telling me when I ask them how I'm doing) She told me everything people were saying about me....none of which was good. which like I said before, totally contradicted what was being told to me to my face. Apparently my nurse manager stated she feels like I am not remorseful for what I did. And let me go. I told her I didn't think it was right that they are telling all these things that people had been saying about me since week 2 of my orientation and now I'm at week 9 and I'm hearing about all this now??? I should have been told constructive criticizes throughout my orientation thats what orientations is all about, your preceptor is suppose to identify things that you are weak at or unknowable about and to educate you. Every time (which is every day), when I asked my preceptor if I was doing good she would say your doing great or your doing good. My nurse manager called my preceptor in and asked her how does she think I've been doing. My preceptor says, "she has been doing good when she has 3 pts but when she has more than 3, mistakes get made." (Just to let everyone know my first time taking 5 pts was this thursday, then friday I had 4 and they all got discharged, then on Sunday I had 4 and thats when I made the med error, then on Tues I had 5...The same pts as Sunday just w/ one more:(my pts included one who had to get multiple blood products (who had a splenic bleed but was a DNR)...eventually that pt got transfered to INCU b/c they reversed the DNR/DNI (I found this pt on the floor, he pulled his dobhoff out...hummm what else could happen??), the other was on a heprin and lasixs drip and in chronic a flutter, next pt was post opt CABAG x4 who just got his chest tube pulled, 4th pt was complete care who wouldn't eat who's son called me like twice already that day wanting to know when his soon could get transfered to skilled care facillity, the 5th was waiting for his INR to be therapeutic) so all of this happened w/in the past 4 days) I couldn't believe my preceptor didn't have my back. Even the day I made the med mistake she said your doing good considering the difficult pts we have. I couldn't believe the whole situation, I feel like I got stabbed in the back! I view myself as a caring person who enjoys seeing people get better. I feel like this whole experience has changed my view on hospital/bedside care. I no longer want to deal with feeling stressed out b/c I'm running around to complete patient care on time in order to document/anticipate the worst happening to a patient, I'm tired of not eating lunch b/c I'm more concerned w/ my patients than my own health, I'm tired of backstabbing nurses who act like they are helping you, when in actuality they are talking **** behind your back...when they should be telling you what your doing wrong and try and educate you instead of letting you crash and burn....and making you assume you were doing a good job, I'm tired of condescending nurse managers. I now really believe bedside nursing is not for me.

Thank you for everyone that replied. I didn't think that I was just being a whimp when I thought that they were coming down on me way to hard...I'm glad that people felt the same way about how I was being treated. I intend to go in there and tell them that yesterday during their confrontation with me I felt really off guard and that yes I made a med error but I'm not going to let that define my nursing career and whether I want to work there or not. I plan on being more careful when I give meds and not rush. I learned from my mistake and that from this I will grow as a nurse. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. Hopefully I'll still have a job

Hi, I just recently graduated and got a job directly out of nursing school at a hospital known to have a very busy PCU. I'm on orientation week 9 out of 14, 2 days ago was my first day taking on all 5 pts and I was rushing to complete all the things I needed to do: vitals/assessments, morning meds ect. When I went to give one of my pts their morning meds they asked me to get their pain meds....not paying attention I gave the pt 1mg dilauded when he was suppose to get 10 mg Oxy IR, I immediatly filed an incident report, called the doctor, and made sure my pt was ok. W/ the same pt later that day I gave him his scheduled bp medication when his bp was less that what it needed to be in order to give that med...literally as soon as he swallowed it I said to myself I was sappose to hold that med. I was sooo upset and felt soooo stupid for making these mistakes, I felt like I just had a horrible day. I am normally more attentive. Yesterday I got called into the nurse managers office (I knew was bound to happen), in the office were my nurse manager, nurse educator, and clinical assistant. My nurse manager began to to discuss the incident. I explained to the best of my ability what had happened and the steps I took after. My nurse manager began to tell me that she feels that I am not progressing well in my orientation and questioned me about whether or not this is what I want to do and if this is the floor that I want to work on. (this contradicted what my preceptor has been telling me: that I have been doing good especially w/ the type of patient load we have been working with). They went on to what felt to my like an interrogation of my intension and my feelings about what had happened. I felt like they were trying to break me down and make me cry. My nurse manager told me to come back tomorrow at 12 instead of my scheduled time 7am to discuss what it means to me to be a nurse, and if I still wanted to work there. I know what I did was wrong and I felt terrible for it. My intension wasn't to hurt anybody. I feel as though by making these mistakes they will stick with me in the back of my mind, when giving meds which will only make me a better nurse. I am dreading tomorrow and don't know what to do or say to show them that I am serious about my job.