Denali_25

I took a HH job last November and was so terrified to make the transition out of acute care. But let me tell you, it was the best career decision I've ever made! I love it so much. No other area of nursing offers the same freedom, flexibility, and ability to set your own pace. My stress levels are nearly non-existent. I'm also making much more money per hour than I used to since I can work at a fast pace (most of the time) and get paid a high flat rate per visit. I wouldn't say that the charting is all that bad. I think it's worse in a hospital personally. Yeah, the oasis documents take a while but you get used to them and they end up taking significantly less time in the long run. There are some downsides to home health... safety is a potential issue and most of the houses are not clean. I hate that I smell like tobacco at the end of a day and once I found a bed-bug on my scrubs (Yikes!). But those things are a small price to pay for the benefits in my opinion. God bless, OP.

1. I am an RN and I only received two days of training out in the field. 2. The first month was really rough and I felt very overwhelmed. But after that I got used to things and I absolutely love my job now. I would have said that two days was not nearly enough except that my supervisor has been and continues to be very patient with me as I perfect my skills and processes. If she were a hard a** right off the bat I may have been bitter about receiving such little training. 3. I have the freedom to see as many or as few patients in a day as I want so long as I see all of "my patients" at some point in the week. I see and average of 8 patients per day and only three days a week. Of course that varies if I have an admission that day or if something out of the ordinary comes up.

I have a home health patient who boggles my mind with the kind of stuff he says to me. I once asked him for his signature and he "jokingly" said I would need to pay him $10. I told him I did not have $10 on me and his response was, "That's okay, you can just pay me in sex." This was all before and after he grabbed my butt and attempted to grab my breast. Needless to say, I had to shut that **** down fast!

Thanks for everyone's feedback.

No, they are not.

Of course. But why would you ask the CNA about it? What would you say?

It was not, and you are sure of this.

The Scene: You walk into your patient's room/home. After chatting for a bit you pull out your stethoscope and begin to listen to your patient's lungs. Your patient then tells you that her STNA previously informed her that her lung sounds are clear. You ask her how the STNA knew this? Patient tells you that the STNA used her stethoscope to assess the patient before telling the patient that her lungs sound good. Your Reaction: ???

I have to disagree with those saying you need more than two years of nursing experience to be a good supervisor in LTC. I was a supervisor for the first 15 months of my nursing career. While it was tough, and I had to learn a ton of leadership skills right off the bat, I think being a good supervisor has much more to do with your personality and ethics than it does floor nursing experience. Just my opinion.

"Today, everyone has a 4.0 b/c they go to community colleges that are not challenging or cheating is rampant." That's interesting. My community college courses were a heck of a lot more challenging than my university classes.

Why do you (OP) care whether or not someone makes outward identification of their spirituality? Does it somehow have an affect on you? Seriously, I don't understand your vehement reaction to the phrase "Blessed day".

Here is a link to the union contract at OSU. The bottom of the document shows the pay scale according to years of experience:http://hr.osu.edu/public/documents/hrpubs/laborrelations/ONAagreement.pdf?t=20152271659

I'm an inpatient oncology nurse in a rather small regional hospital. I was just hired in July, 2014. Before then I had a little over a year's experience in LTC. This was my initial nursing job after graduation in December 2012 because nursing jobs are scarce for new grads in Ohio. OB has always been my passion and my short term goal (3-5 years) is to become a lactation consultant. My question is this: How long do manners dictate that I work on my Oncology unit before applying to transfer out? I made up my mind when I took this job that I would stay for at least 1 year since my manager took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity to work in a hospital. Not only that, but she has used money in her budget to train me and get me my basic certifications (Telemetry, BLS, and eventually ACLS). Is one year of service long enough? Please keep in mind that I have this secret fear that I will finally make it into OB and realize that it wasn't what I thought it was. If that's the case, I want to be able to go back to Oncology since I actually really like it and would rather be there than any other unit besides OB. Not to mention, I have a great manager with decent co-workers.

I am finishing my last year semester before getting my ADN. I have always wanted to become a CNM and my desire for this has only heightened in light of L&D clinicals. My problem is this... All throughout highschool I was was an A student. I very occasionally got B's in high level math and sciences. My highschool sent me to college at 16 and I began my student nurse education. I continued to get A's in all of my general education courses. However, after the first of 6 semesters of nursing, I quickly realized I was no longer an A student. I was barely scraping by with C+'s!!! The only exception being my first semester (I got a B), and psychiatric nursing (An A-). Now that I'm about to move onto my BSN, I'm worried about getting excepted into any schools that offer a bachelor's degree, much less CNM. I know grades are very important but is there any hope for me to achieve my dreams at this point? I was a good student, I still work hard to be, but nursing school is the hardest thing I've ever done. I'd like to know ASAP if I need to lower my goals. I can be happy as a L&D RN, but midwifery is my ultimate goal. Can I make this work?

Thank you all for the advice :)