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Wow what kind of hospital is that? It costs alot to train a nurse so my hospital would not fire nurses easily unless it has to with VIP patients. One of my colleague was forced to resign because a "VIP" patient's sister whose the boss in nursing education filed complaints against her for not giving the patient a urinal when being asked to and not starting the patients on antibiotics when he arrived the unit in the middle of the night. But in other more serious incidents in which patient's safety were jeopardized -- a nurse hanging vancomycin instead of levephed drip, and hanging morphine instead of Flagy, not reporting a fever of 104F and the patient ended up having a seizure , etc..the nurses only had to be re-educated” and didn't get suspended. Maybe you should start applying for other hospitals. Its not worth the stress working in a termination happy hospital.

My manager loves to hire new grad because she wants to mold them into the way she wants...

Hi! Im also working in Oncology/Med Surg. This is my fifth year. Recently ive started working per diem in outpatient infusion center. I have to tell you, even though you are still dealing with oncology patients, outpatient is very very different from inpatient. In oncology/medsurg unit, i usually wont get more than two patients that are on chemo and there are only several chemos that are commonly given in inpatient setting (Ex. 5FU, cisplain, carboplatin, etoposide, doxorubicin, rituxan. etc ) Also the doctors montor the patients' lab more closely..... In outpatient, i need to give a wide variety of chemo, some of them ive never even heard of, and also im the one that has to info the doctors if the certain lab values are out of the parameters.. and i also get 7-8 patients a day that are getting chemo. Its very fastpaced. So you have to have better knowledge of chemotherapy to work in the outpatient setting. Take the chemotherapy/biotherapy certification course before you switch to outpatient.