historylady

historylady MSN, RN

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  1. Is this anxiety or should I quit nursing?

    historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am not big fan of a better life through Pharmacology, when the issue can be resolved in another manner. I too suffer from work related anxiety. I love direct nursing care but I have come to the...

  2. Nursing Homes. The bodies are just pilling up.

    historylady replied to xanderx's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sorry to say but death is part of life. I don't think that anybody is disrespecting or ignoring the LTC population. Two things that you must remember. 1st, the news media business is to sell news....

  3. Who wants to hire a graduate nurse at 55?

    historylady replied to RNat55's topic in General Nursing

    Hello RN at 55, There is definitely age bias present in the world of nursing. I was older when I graduated and it took me a while to get the first job and then I was hired based ona friends...

  4. Preceptor is SO BAD!

    historylady replied to Guest606's topic in General Nursing

    Have you asked her how she is doing? She sounds very overwhelmed by it all. Some new grad nurses come in brimming with self-confidence, other don't. IF she is going in the bathroom and crying, you...

  5. Preceptor is SO BAD!

    historylady replied to Guest606's topic in General Nursing

    This is how we are losing new grad nurses. New grad nurse - you have three courses of action. One you can do nothing and wait the day when you are on your own and something you should have been...

  6. Slowing Down

    historylady posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have arthritis and fibromyalgia (and a few other things). Needless to say I have chronic pain. Some days are good days and some days are not so good, needless to say to don't move as fast as a used...

  7. Slowing Down

    historylady replied to historylady's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Thank you for your response. Yes I have looked into staff development and

  8. My transfer nurse advisor says I won't make it !

    historylady replied to chichimel's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Only you can decide if nursing is the right career for you. I am a second degree nurse and i was also told that I would not make it as a nurse. I did make it and I am a good nurse. But it was a...

  9. Experienced RN's cannot get new jobs!

    historylady replied to duca's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I find this to be very true. I find that getting hired has more to do with age rather than experience. I has seen younger nurses with the same experience get hired over older nurses with same...

  10. New nurse having a hard time with coworkers

    historylady replied to Me93RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I feel your pain. Nursing is a profession and therefore the people practicing it should be professional. Unfortunately, nursing is also a female dominated profession. When ever you get a group of...

  11. Is this a possible case of age discrimination?

    historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Age discrimination is alive and well in the nursing world. When I started nursing ( at at 49) I was told that hospitals and such don not want to take on new nurses over age 45. It takes 2 to 3...

  12. RN School Clinicals on Resume??

    historylady replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I don't know anything about the clinicals you were exposed to, but my final two clinicals, I was expected to handle my case load on my own. My nurse preceptor watched, answered questions, and oversaw...

  13. Nursing in crisis

    historylady posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nurses talk to one another, that is a fact. You want to learn something about something ask nurses. What I am hearing is frightening. the profession of nursing is in crisis. New grads can't get...

  14. hiring older nurses

    historylady replied to KThurmond's topic in General Nursing

    It is not so much just the age of the nurse. it is being a new nurse that is older. I was told it took over $30,000 to take a new graduate nurse and mentor them to be skilled nurse. Many places...

  15. My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    historylady replied to Live..&..Learn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There will always be the way you are taught in nursing school and the way things are done in the real world. But often times the way things are done in the real world are also not the way things...

  16. New to nursing field - got fired after 2 months

    historylady replied to lifeisgood2012's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Take heart, it does happen. Nursing skills can be learned. The place that fired you were looking for an experienced nurse (they all are). Pick yourself up, dust yourself off. Do some studying,...

  17. RN as CNA

    historylady posted a topic in General Nursing

    The facility that I work at is chronically short of CNA (isn't everybody). It is the new policy to have RN work as CNA's. We get paid as a RN but are working as CNA's. The position title, is CNA. I...

  18. Nursing Shortage Expiration A Myth!

    historylady replied to Curiousdog's topic in Nursing Career

    There are no jobs in central WI. Too many collages have been turning out graduates. If you don't have 1 year of experience in an acute care the nursing homes won't hire

  19. Help Getting a Job

    historylady posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I graduated in 2009 with a BSN. Family circumstances prevented me from searching for my first job for more than a year. Now when I apply for RN positions, I am being told that my degree is too old....