CRNAorBust

Would be beneficial if there was one for nurses who need help staying i nursing. I'm sure there's a good percentage of nurses who are floundering for one reason or another. Perhaps a forum for their issues would be helpful.

I'm looking to change jobs and am looking for recommendations for which agencies would be the best to deal with. I'm looking to find out which ones are the most reputable and best at finding the type of position you want. Thanks in advance.

Dear First NUrsing job, I'm very sorry you had such a lousy first job but , and I hate to say it, welcome to real world nursing. I am 57 yrs old and I have had 3 jobs so far and none of them have taken.....the longest one was 2.5 yrs and now I'm out...

when I was in nursing school and doing so well I thought for sure this would be my career to retire from........but it hasn't turned out that way.....I'm still looking for that career....

I have been a nurse since 2005, I started in a critical care resdency program and crashed and burned. Then went to med surg and did same. Then went to hospice floor......no good, then finally hospice homecare and currently on verge of being let go....

Well obviously we all have our ups and downs. And when I posted my initial statement I was feeling pretty down. I actualy went to sign up for possible per diem homecare work and I received a call from a school to possibly do some teaching to LPNs. ...

Ever since I got out of nursing school I have not been able to do well in a hospital setting. I've tried critical care, I've tried med/surg, hospice.....nothing seems to be working. Can anyone suggest another type of nursing that I might be able to...

Your attitude is part and parcel of where the saying "Nurses eat their young" comes from. You may be the most sincere person in the world but if you don't give newbies a chance your shooting yourself in the foot. You'll be the lone nurse on the flo...

Hi everyone, I need to study and pass the cert exam (RN) since we are union nurses and my salary grade depends on having that cert. We also get reimbursed for the test plus we get a bonus of about 400 dollars the first time we take the exam. So re...

No I don't have any stats. It was based on what I was recently reading online here. Seems that many who don't have to get certified won't. It's expensive, and it may not contribute much especially to those who've been a hospice nurse for some time...

Just thought i'd share my situation. I graduated in 2005, thought I'd try critical care in an ICU residency program that was suppose to be 1 yr long. Well nites were not for me, I made a mistake and that was the end of that. Had to move out of sta...

I too was like you to some degree. I was in the computer field. The jobs were drying up badly just before 9/11. I needed a new career and chose nursing thinking I could do Nursing with computers or even Psych since I had a psych degree prior. But...

I've been a med surg nurse for a year and a half, and now i moved to hospice. Thinking about working a few hours extra a month but doing something other than hospice or med surg. Curious what other nurses are doing to make an extra buck in these ha...

HiThere! I know exactly how you're feeling. i had the same issues when i first started. In fact I'm still dealing with them. It's not always easy to know when you're patient is in trouble. But here's some tips I've picked up so far. NEVER leave y...

Hello everyone! I've just changed jobs from med surg to hospice and will be starting on Oct 15th. It's in a hospital setting (very clean compared to med surg!), will have 4 patient load, with a mix of hospice, palliative, and med surg. I've already...

I'm about to go to the hospital today to see what's going to happen to me after having given a patient someone else's meds. The patient was not injured (thank heavens) but there's a definite possibility I may lose the job and or be liable legally. I"...

I'm about to go to the hospital today to see what's going to happen to me after having given a patient someone else's meds. The patient was not injured (thank heavens) but there's a definite possibility I may lose the job and or be liable legally. I...

Hi everyone, I've been doing med surg nursing for almost a year and a half and have noticed I'm not very good with critical thinking. The fast pace of Med Surg work is also hurting me physically and pyschologically. I would like to move to some othe...

Hi everyone, I've been doing med surg nursing for almost a year and a half and have noticed I'm not very good with critical thinking. The fast pace of Med Surg work is also hurting me physically and pyschologically. I would like to move to some ot...

Alot of these suggestions are great.....I think in the long run I'd probably feel better about doing Research. But the one program I have found which has an MS - PhD program is expensive and would require me to do it full time and spend alot of time ...

Hi everyone and thanks a bunch for taking the time to reply..... Regarding the question about how many patients we have.....it's 5 to 6 and that of course doesn't take into account the acuity of the patients, and or the number of times they have you ...

Well i would tend to agree with you that a 50% failure rate is NOT necessarily a reflection on your ability to learn. School is not always a place to learn. Sometimes it's an obstacle course that needs to be traversed so you can get to where you ne...

I can't believe that with someone who has worked 20 years that they would not have handled this differently than they did. Sure you left the floor with meds (did I get that right?), sure you should have straightened that out immediately, but oh my g...

Learning tasks or learning how to interact with patients and staff can be equally tough. It really depends on what you as a person bring to the table for either. For me I learned nursing well in school but only because i had to do it via reading wh...

Hi everyone, I'm a Nurse on a med surg floor with one years experience. One of my weak areas is identifying when patients are have a minor or major problem AND what I should be doing in each situation. I'm looking for scenarios that will aid me in t...