Wagoosh

Thanks for for input. It's good to hear that I'm not the only one having trouble finding something solid. It's just so frustrating b/c all through school word was that this was about the only degree that you could really be sure to have employment after school, besides tech or IT degrees anyway. It's good to know there's a little hope out there, but still disheartening that it might not be until November! Oh well, I suppose steady and stubborn will be the coorifice. Thanks again and good luck to you as well! We will get jobs someday!

I just passed my nclex about a month ago. I have been working for a home-health aide agency as an aide for two years and they have taken in my license and given me an RN title. I still mostly do aide work with their clients, mainly because they do not have a new nurse orientation and my incompetence is scaring the crap out of me. I feel unprepared for the responsibilities of an RN, but am applying to all the hospitals within a 1hr driving time to me plus nursing homes in the hopes of getting a job with regular hours and a team of colleagues to help and support me as I try to orient as an RN. I am extremely frustrated that I still have not gotten an interview. I am critiquing my resume and cover letter in the hopes that the revised versions will get more results. Maybe it's just that it is so soon after passing my exam? Or maybe this time of year is not good for new nurses.....please, let me hear some vote of confidence that something will turn up? I'm hoping that when they all send the hard work was worth it, that it actually is.

I am currently in the middle of my nursing education, so I am still getting used to being 'skilled' with my skills. For routine vitals at the clinical sites, I often use the machine, but I will check with manual as well. This might be more to do with me trying to see if I'm taking manual accurately, but I do find myself questioning the accuracy of automatic machines in facilities and not just with BP. Along that line, tempanic thermometer use has me questioning even more. How accurate can those possibly be when a pt has a fever that needs to be monitored with accuracy? Even if I wanted to check with a different thermometer, the particular facility I was doing my medsurg rotation at didn't even HAVE another kind of thermometer. So, I think there is certainly validity in questioning the frequent use/reliance of automatic machinery, if only because it worries me that perhaps someday the manual options might not even be available to double check!