Lovely_RN

I just got my award letter for the HRSA SUD workforce loan repayment! I have 99k in federal loans so this is truly a blessing. I was notified that I was a final applicant on 7/12. My contract was signed on 7/26/19 and I received the welcome email today. It states that the funds will be disbursed to the bank account I provided within 90 days. Good luck! I hope everyone gets it.

Hospital nurses are great and someone has to do it right? Well, that stated: Some people have to tear others down in order to build themselves up. When I transfered from telemetry to outpatient my ex-coworkers gave me much grief. I was going to lose my skills, I was giving up nursing, and I would never be able to return to the bedside. A few things: What I currently do is a skill set all of it's own. Hospital RN can't just jump in and do my job without training. Skills? What skills are they referring to exactly? Does an ICU nurse have the same skill set as a SNF/LTC nurse? Do they need to have the same skill set? Also, there is something called a refresher course if I ever get tired of always having nights, Sundays, and all major holidays off while still getting the same pay as the nurses on my old unit. I also do not have to give report to the next nurse because we are CLOSED after my shift and there are NO PCAs. If you're happy at the bedside then by all means carry-on and I thank you for your service. If you're not happy at the bedside then don't let anyone make you feel inferior for your choices.

The MDS job sounds good. Maybe you should also consider applying for psych as well. What about clinic positions or chemical dependency?

I'm very efficient as well and what I've noticed is that there are two categories of efficient nurses. There are nurses who truly are efficient and then there are those who think they are but really they just leave a lot of work undone. As far as those nurses who complain that you are lazy because you finish your tasks quickly they too fall into two categories. There is the nurse who is truly overwhelmed and just works a bit slower than everyone else and then there is the the nurse who is disorganized. Prime example. I worked with a nurse who always showed up late because she was coming from her other job. This woman was never less than 15-30mins late for every shift. When she finally made her appearance she would lolly-gag in the break room after getting report instead of immediately assessing her patients and entering some of her assessments into the computer. She would order dinner and go eat it about 10pm and then do her meds late. She took a 2 hour break every night because she was exhausted from working two jobs. In the mornings she would be groggy and routinely still be sitting at the computer charting 1-2 hours past her shift. She was always the first to complain about a lack of teamwork but I refused to help her and would just hide after getting sucked up into her inefficiency a few times. Sorry but it's not fair if you arrive at work early or on time. It's not fair when you jump right to work and bust your butt while she shows up late and works as slow as molasses. I refused to help her out and stay past my shift because she wants to show up late and work slow. As long as the patient wasn't in danger I left it alone...sorry they got a bad nurse that shift but it happens.