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Depending on where you live, there are not a lot of occ health jobs. A lot of them end up being with companies who are used to outsource that function instead of being tied to a hospital and clinic system. if you are working on site, you will deal a lot with hearing testing and various other things like test testing for respirators as well as injuries that happened on site and possibly illnesses. If you're working in a clinic in occupational health, that's not a specific a specific worksite, then you might see a more steady stream of injuries that occurred on the worksite and routine physicals for things like DOT drivers, etc. So MedSurg isn't really that good of a prep for it, working in a ortho clinic or a walk-in clinic or even family practice is probably closer

State will probably have much better benefits than agency.

has anyone ever done NP home visits for Signify Health? I'm curious what your experience has been.

I’m curious how people are having their clinical rotation hours calculated for nurse practitioner school rotations. In my program, it’s based off contact hours on the site. I’ve heard Chamberlain only counts the actual face to face time with patients. this would seem impossible to plan since typically clinical rotations are set up based on hours or days, not patient time which is hard to predict. Curious how others have seen it done it? Is that really how Chamberlain does it?

It was the p Just Google “entitled generation...” 99 percent millennials...

Wow you guys - I don’t know where you get your information - all you have to do is Google “the entitled generation” and millennial is all over it - 99% of all the hits will be millennials. It’s also the generation who got the trophies for losing.

I’m not even sure where that comes from. I think you’re giving baby boomers a very bad name. That is a very hard-working generation. Probably the last of the hard-working generations. Their parents were “depression era” kids and they were raised frugally for the most part. There was no social media, there were no cell phones, there wasn’t even 24 hour Nickelodeon and cable TV. This was the last generation that played outdoors and had after school jobs. I’m really confused why people think that was an entitled generation.

That is absolutely incorrect. I think you’re mixing up boomers with other generations. I don’t know any boomers who got everything they wanted. It’s probably the last generation that worked their butts off. You are aware that boomers are 60 to 70 years old right now correct? There’s not a generation that had things given to them. The kids were raised in the 90s and the current generation of 20-year-olds was definitely handed things.

I’ve seen this behavior in seasoned nurses as well. I think the new nurses are probably more under the microscope in many situations. In an environment where seniority rules and many people want somebody to manage, that new nurse can be the target of a lot of attacks by all of the staff, including the unlicensed staff. Most of the time these problems come down to poor management or absent management. In my experience if the team and or charge nurse had been more supportive, it would’ve been better for all involved. And yes, if a new nurse is a career change nurse and has worked in a respectable environment, it is difficult to take the often cold and harsh treatment from existing nurses. I’ve often thought that they must be very unhappy when they need to make someone feel bad and that person is usually the new one. I’d like to add that the new nurses usually get the crappiest assignments. This may not be clear to them when they’re looking around and seeing that they are the ones getting the worst time slots etc. I think every new nurse needs their orientation to include info on some of those dynamics so they don’t come as a shock.

I can’t wait to read all the responses because I feel like I’m reading my own story here. Before I read everything and make suggestions, I’m trying to get my bearings here. It sounds like you’re in a career change if you’ve been an RN for six years but your children are grown? My nursing career is short and was a career change. And I think that’s my problem. I have always worked high integrity professional jobs, and never dealt with some of the rudeness and some of the lack of structure and fly by the seat of your pants as I see a nursing so far. I think that’s been my problem is adjusting from a truly autonomous, highly structured, truly empowered world to hospital nursing, which is what I’ve done so far. It feels like factory work to me. I did home health care also for a short time, it just wasn’t a good fit at the time. I hope we both find our answer!

I think it’s either in your blood, or it’s an acquired taste- takes time to like it. There is limited way to know what it’s like without trying, but if you don’t like it, there are many areas you can move into before you find a great fit. For me, some of the bigger hospitals treat you like a factory worker. Smaller offices or private practice might appeal to some and fast paced drama might appeal to others.

OMG....agree...they HAVE to come up with better titles for studies so if they are valid (this one sounds pretty obvious - not requiring a study...) that they don’t give the impression of a waste of time and money. How about “reducing adverse events causes by human error” ... ???

Without knowing your policy...is it possible that your OT is paid separately? One of my friends works for a large U-based hospital where nurses are some weird class between salaried and hourly. They have to punch a time clock, but OT hours are paid every quarter, and payment for those have to be requested or they don't get paid out. Weird?

Another thought....Travel nursing in your own area. Most agencies allow you to specify how far from home, I know several who travel in nearby towns and return home each night.

I think I’m going to be like you! Pretty much ruled out med surg as a place I don’t want to be!!