historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth
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 realization that the stress and anxiety that I get ...
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. They can take one small thing and blow it out of pr...
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 recommendation into a LTC facility that was desperate for...
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 need to find out the reason. Ever person has a dif...
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 taught happens needs to be done and you do it wrong an...
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 to. The problem I have is that I don't know to w...
historylady replied to chichimel's topic in Pre-Nursing
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 struggle. The nursing profession has one big flaw, nu...
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 experience. Age discrimination is alive an well in ...
historylady replied to Me93RN's topic in 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 females together, the catty behavior has a tendenc...
historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth
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 months to get a new grad trained to work independently....
historylady replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Job Hunt
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 what I was doing. I think it has a lot to do wit...
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 jobs unless they have experience but can't get exp...
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 will not spend that type of money on a person with su...
historylady replied to Live..&..Learn's topic in 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 "should" be done in the real world. The things th...
historylady replied to lifeisgood2012's topic in New Nurse
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, review your skills and find a new job. LTC is not t...
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 have no problem with this as I try to help my CNA...
historylady replied to Curiousdog's topic in Career Support
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 you.
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. In addition, it is being implied that I am too ol...