Bentley

thank you everyone for the replies. i'm looking forward to joining the nursing force again =) i will look for a refresher class when i head back to the us. regarding your sister in law going to belgium, if she's stationed at mons/shape she will probably enjoy the tour since that is a larger base, but i'm at kb which is very remote and there are no jobs available. bentley

hello all. i'm new to this site. i'm currently unemployed, living at a remote base in belgium with my husband. we will be relocating to the us in a few months and i am afraid that i won't be able to get a nursing job because i lack nursing skills/ experience. i know cna's & cma's who have more clinical skills than me. i wasn't impressed with my nursing education even though i received good grades. they valued the importance of communication rather than actual clinical skills. so now i know how to communicate therapeutically, but i don't know how to start an iv and i absolulety suck at drawing blood, esp on a peds patient. after graduating in 2002, i landed a job at a peds clinc where i gave shots all day long, attempted caths, and did few blood draws. and now 2-3 years later i've been unemployed and away from the us for over a year. i'm at the point where i feel useless as a nurse...is this even the right career path for me? for those of you who work in a hospital setting, do hospitals provide training for new nurses or just feed them to the wolves? i didn't enjoy my hospital rotation back in college, everyone seemed too stressed and overworked to teach me. i never want to be one of those grumpy, mean, old nurses who like to bite the heads off of new grads...hehe bentley