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I have been working as a nurse on my own now for almost 6 months, and I still get nervous quite often about my decisions. I find that asking nurses around you, or your charge nurse, seems to be the best way to assure yourself that you are making the ...

As of right now, I am working 3 12's on a cardio/tele unit. Although I really enjoy the cardiology/tele aspect, and don't mind the 12's, I hate weekends and holidays. My husband and I don't get to see eachother as much as we would like because our sc...

Our facility gives raises every year to all staff that qualify (good review, have worked at least a year). So, because I have been hired at our facility for a year, I got a raise, and also a bonus this year. But, it really had nothing to do with "hav...

Nursing is stressful, but it is a different stress once you are out of school, pass your boards, and get into a job. The best change is...YOUR WORK STAYS AT WORK! You do not have to bring your patients home with you and continue to care for them :) ...

Cardizem, rebound htn is something I have never really seen with this, but we do Cardizem gtts all the time now for SVT or UCAFIB. But, we typically see pressures drop with this drug and often have to stop the gtt because of this problem. We will sta...

The hospital I work at is going to change their uniform policy in Jan 2012, and I am looking forward to it. Right now, each floor chooses their own policy, and the floor I work on is "wear your own scrubs." Our hospital also provides scrubs for some ...

I am sure that they just had plenty of applicants that were already interviewing, that they just didn't want to take any more applications! Just make sure you follow up after a week if you haven't heard from them! But really, do not get too worried!

I, though a young graduate, had this experience too. With night shifts, weekends, holidays I would have HORRIBLE anxiety attacks, crying my eyes out hours before I left for my shift, and struggling to keep it together when I got to work. I just could...

Money does talk! Cannot deny it. Bring it up with your current employer, tell them you got offered a job that would pay $50/hr, and would like to stay and see if you can negotiate a pay raise...I personally do not have any experience negotiating, but...

Loyalty really is hard to promise when you are a new grad, I would know. I got hired before graduation on a floor that I KNEW was going to be MY DREAM FLOOR. It was cardac, and with the hospital building a new HEART HOSPITAL (which was my "dream") to...

Hey all! Great news! I ended up getting a job with GI center, hours being 9-530 and did not have to take a pay cut at all, it was a lateral move! The interview went great, I went in Thursday morning and they called me Friday afternoon and offered me ...

I currently work on a telemetry floor, and have found it to be too stressful for me and just landed an interview with the GI center at the same hospital. The hours are 0900-1730, M-F, no weekends no nights (which was one of my biggest issues with wor...

Yes, I do work 3 12's right now and did think of that. I asked a friend who works in the GI lab in another hospital what the difference was between her and her fiance's wages (he works on the floor and 3 12's) and she said she made $.80 less per hour...

Actually I do have a portfolio I prepared in school, and could probably add to it! Thanks for the great advice, I completely forgot about that!!

No it doesn't. I have thought about asking other nurses, but I really haven't told many people that I am going to leave. There is another hospital in town, and I actually know someone who works on the floor and someone who works in a GI lab there, an...

Yes, and I have to tell ya, as a new nurse it was horrifying. But seeing this thread actually makes me feel somewhat better, knowing how common it really is to get errors, and that I am not a bad nurse, just HUMAN!

That was pretty harsh, not at all what I got from your message! Keep going with nursing, sounds like you have a good heart, and that is #1 for nurses! You can have all the brains in the world, but unless you truley have a huge heart and love people,...

Don't get too discouraged. By my last semester of school, I was kicking myself in the behind for choosing nursing. I hated school so much towards the end that I really believed I was going to hate nursing as well. Right after graduation, while I was ...

I am really struggling with my hospital job right now too, and as you said, many on my floor HATE it there. I have horrible anxiety attacks before I go to work, and I absolutely DREAD going. Its unfortunate, and I always give 100% to my patients beca...

I think I would stay involved in health care, but I would not WORK in health care. I would LOVE to take my RN license and work overseas or in areas of need and use my winnings to open clinics and help out that way, but like everyone else is saying......

:confused:I have been working on a very fast-paced med-surg floor at a fairly large hospital in the midwest since March. At first, I loved working. I was getting great assignments (being a new nurse) and was adjusting well. But now that the assignmen...

Yes, I knew about shift work before I started. My problem is adjusting. I guess coming from nursing school/no weekends to full time work, every other weekend, every other holiday is just getting to me more than I thought it would and am looking for a...

Thanks so much for the advice. I knew it would be hard, just didn't expect it to be this hard!!! I will look into the EAP, and as for my PCP, I already have talked and am taking medication for the GAD, but as many nurses know, medications used to tre...

Yeah I knew I would be working weekends too, I just didn't realize how hard it would be adjusting to them! I can handle working them, just looking for some advice on how to better adjust!