Jsnurse16

Hey everyone, I have an interview coming up and I need some help. I have had an interview a week for the past 7 weeks and have not had any offers. Someone else mentioned to me that maybe the hiring person can tell that I dont really want the job, well this one I'm very interested in. It's at a hospital/clinic for people with eating disorders as well as other psych issues but mostly eating disorders. They do inpatient, residential, and outpatient. They have a large adolescent unit and I am really interested in that aspect of the position. I think I'm very awkward when I go to interviews and I was looking for any pointers people might have. Such as, how to convey that I'm really interested. What kinds of questions to ask or questions I might be asked. I always think of answers I might have to questions about why I want to work there etc but a lot of the time I freeze up when they ask me. I might stutter or the response I wanted to say might come out wrong or often times I get nervous and I don't say everything I want to say. Also, I feel like the fact that I look so young might turn people off. I'm told constantly how young I look, people sometime like I'm 15 etc. So idk how to seem older or more mature . Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really need a new job, I currently work nights and its killing me. I am definitely not a night nurse, there's some people who can do it but its just not me. I'm miserable. Thanks!!

It's not patient teaching, it's staff teaching I didn't think I would be good at. I don't quite mind patient teaching, not my favorite but I do feel good when I can teach a newly diabetic patient how to check their own levels and give themselves insulin. I just really feel like I'm not a great nurse, I felt like when I was working in the TCU the patients would love me because I know I'm very kind and I listen to them but I was always being told I was doing thins wrong by management. I actually was fired from that position and that was a huge ordeal and probably was a major reason I started thinking I wasn't cut out to be a nurse. My DoN asked me once if I was passionate about my job and I responded saying yes of course I really love all my patients and enjoy caring for them (which was the truth, I truly did love caring for the patients) and she said "oh, really? Because I don't think you do." And it was like a slap across the face, because the only reason I did enjoy that job was because oh the relationships I built with the residents and I just figured I must not show my passion correctly. Idk but the residents seemed to like me. I'm rambling again... Sorry.

Boston 3 years exp Pedi homecare $28.25 base I make $30.25 for nights No union

I enjoy helping people and caring for them. There are a lot of bedside nursing aspects that I love but also a lot that I don't. When I worked in the TCU at a nursing home that was my only experience doing something more acute than homecare which is only one patient. I enjoyed having more than one person to care for because it kept me busy but I didn't enjoy floating to the LTC units where I had 20 patients and felt like the only thing I had time for was popping pills. I enjoy working with the preterm infant I currently work with but I work nights and I feel like a glorified babysitter. Yes, sometimes he needs me to suction his Trach or give him a neb tax but that's pretty much it. He sleeps 90% of the time I'm here and all I do is sit on my butt looking for a new job. I have no clue if I would actually enjoy working on an inpatient unit in a hospital but I don't think would because I didn't particularly enjoy my clinicals. The jobs I have had interviews for recently were a school nurse, nurse leader for a disabled school, medical daycare rn, community health center nurse and an interview today for a mental health agency for adolescents with traumatic backgrounds but the majority of the work is overseeing and teaching (which I have no clue if I would prefer this to bedside nursing but I am a rather shy person and probably wouldn't be good at teaching or overseeing). I don't know if I'm not good at interviewing or they just hire someone else with more experience but its frustrating having so many interviews and no offers. :-/ sorry this was a long response to your post haha but I'm very upset and confused...

So I have been a nurse for three years now and I'm starting to think I don't want to be a nurse anymore. I wasn't aware of how hard it would be to get the job I want in nursing (which was either nicu or newborn nursery). I went through school got good grades, graduated with honors, passed my nclex first try and realized there were no jobs that wanted to hire a new nurse. I worked in pedi homecare for two years, then went to a TCU unit in a nursing home and now I'm pack to pedi homecare working with a preterm infant. I'm not even sure if I got a nicu job if I would enjoy it, I am so afraid of hurting someone. I feel like I went through nursing school and came out not knowing a thing. I don't know where my fit in the nursing world is and I have been looking for a new job. I have had 6 interviews in the past 6 weeks and haven't had any offers. I have seriously been considering quitting nursing and going back to school but I feel like I spent so much money to pay for nursing school and took so much time that would be a waste. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should do? What types of jobs I might enjoy within nursing?

I am Ultimately looking to work in a NICU. I would like to go back to school for my masters and get my Neonatal NP. Those arent the only jobs I am applying to though. I am applying to every acute care position I can find. I apply to at least 8 jobs a week and either never hear back from the position or get a rejection email. Even, when I apply to pedi positions it seems as though my "experience" doesn't matter, even though the job says 1yr pedi exp and I have Longer than a yr. I am glad to hear it is not just me and that it's just as tough in other states because I did think abut relocating but it's not possible at the moment because I have an apartment and rent to pay.

Hi. I graduated from nursing school in 2010 with a BSN. It took me a couple months after passing my boards to find my current job as a pedi home care nurse. I have been looking for a new job for about 9 months now. I have only had two interviews in that whole time and no job offers. I thought once I had a year exp. I would start getting calls but I now have a year and a half exp and still nothing. I don't understand why I can't find a new job... Am I doing something wrong, or is homecare exp not really good enough? Someone help, or advice please!!!!