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Good luck Faith! And thank you. :)

Thank you for your positive words. Being my first nursing experience, it has left a terrible "taste in my mouth". Hopefully it gets better from here.

It finally happened. I quit my job. No, I don't have another lined up either. Tomorrow I'll be on a mission with cover letters and resumes in hand on a quest for a new job. What happened? Hell just broke loose on myself and another(experienced) nurse from the DON. Felt so belittled and humiliated with all the drama happing in front of the other staff. I was then told to go home and make a decision if I wanted to return and get my head "in the game". After thinking about it, I decided I would not go back and be subjected to this again. Now I hope to find another job soon. I feel like a failure. On the flip side, it feels as if huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Gonna sleep on it tonight. Hoping tomorrow will be a better day.

Absolutely not. But it will do for now, until other opportunities arise(keeping my fingers crossed!)

Still trying to hang in there, positive attitude, prayers & all, but it's not working. Today I got reamed out by one of the RN's (who only works PT) for taking too long to do my books at the end of my shift. The other (more seasoned) nurses do the exact same thing in the same room at the same time when they work this particular shift, but I got flak for it. Feels like they are on a mission to get me to quit. I am going to freshen up my resume and start to actively seek a new job. The stress and bullcrap isn't worth my sanity. There has to better facilities out there, or at least one that is a better fit for me. I so want to be a good nurse, but this feels like a tedious road to nowhere. So thankful the weekend is here and I have off.

Thank you for the replies. It's not my nature to give up so easily. Each day I try to look at the day as a new, fresh beginning. While I know there is so much more to learn, I will try to just take it one day at a time. They surely don't teach this in school! It has to get easier. Like you Deetermined, I feel dumb and question myself. I am still working on Rome. We want to be the best we can be! Good luck to you too. Getting that precious experience is the stepping stone to (hopefully) better opportunities for the future. :)

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I recently graduated from an LPN program in Feb. '11, and was lucky enough to find a full time job last month in a LTC facility. The problem is I'm having a hard time adjusting to the job. Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed and anxious. Time management is an issue(told I'm too slow), my med passes take too long, and I have a hard time remembering everything I need to do. Yes I have a cheat sheet, but it seems to be a pita pulling it out. I've been in the DON's office for a stern lecture once already. (I even forgot to lax a couple residents before I left my shift one night recently.) This has me so upset. I feel that I made a wrong decision in choosing nursing as a career. I feel like an utter and complete failure. Do I stick it out and go with the flow with hopes of becoming more proficient in my time (and be consistently worried I won't be hired when my probationary period is up or fired sooner)? Or do I make an attempt to find another job, which is so hard to find in my area? Some of the staff is helpful, but I feel like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole there. I don't want to give up so easily, but I am becoming a person who I never thought I'd be. Always anxious, no life, never see my kids due to my fluctuating schedule, and getting more & more unhappy each day. The thought of being unemployed with no income (I am a single mom) scares me terribly. Any advice or comments are welcomed. Thank you.