Samantha93

I am in such a dilemma and it has been driving me crazy. Please give me some opinions here. I have worked at one of our two local hospitals for about two years now and plan to apply and (fingers crossed) get hired as an RN once I graduate this December (they hire a lot of the new graduate RNs from my program). I only work as PRN/TR, so I fill in doing front desk work in the clinics when needed. I figured it would be a good way for me to get my foot in the door at the hospital as well as have a flexible work schedule to fit in with nursing school. I was able to work a lot and be a helpful employee the first year and a half or so. However, because of school and my two kids, I can hardly ever work anymore. We cannot afford daycare and we are blessed to have their grandma watch them while I have school during the week, but she has a job also and usually I am asked to work with only a couple day's notice (Ex. This employee has requested Friday off can you work that day?) And usually I can't because I need to give my future mother in law a couple week's notice so she can make sure she doesn't book clients on particular days. I feel like a crappy employee because I'm on the payroll but not really working more than a couple days a month, and I can tell my boss is annoyed that I am always turning down work requests, but here's my problem: If I quit, I'm severing ties (although small ties, they are still ties) with the hospital I want to work at as a nurse in less than a year. They like to hire internally. I really don't want them to see my application as a nurse, look me up, and cross me off because they see I had just quit their hospital the prior year. But, if I stay with the job, I am afraid I'm risking being fired, which would basically eliminate my chances of being hired there again at all. My boss has sent emails to the whole TR pool reminding us that we need to give her hours to remain in the TR pool, and while it was addressed to many people, I have a feeling she was specifically reminding me. Even if I don't get fired, I can tell my boss isn't fond of me, and I'm afraid she would give me a bad review and not recommend me for hire when I graduate school. I'm sorry this was so long. Any opinions or advice as to what you would do in my shoes would be so appreciated. I thought taking the position at this hospital would help me, but right now it is causing me such a headache.

Hello everyone. I just finished up my first semester in an ADN program which was fundamentals. Our clinicals were at a nursing home and I found them to be fairly easy. We learned basic skills (foley caths, IM & SubQ injections, tube feedings, etc.) in the lab portion of our theory class but didn't apply them in clinical. Our focus was mainly building a solid head-to-toe assessment approach and building good care plans. I administered a heparin injection during a med pass one day, but that was about as in-depth as it got. So, for next semester this fall, I will be on a busy med/surg floor at one of our local hospitals and am working myself up with anxiety about it. The third and fourth semester students all say that second semester is the 'hell' semester and is like first semester on steroids. Of course I expect the content to get more challenging and in-depth; I'm trying not to feed into the gossip that surrounds each upcoming course. I heard awful things about first semester too but I passed the class with a good grade and didn't find any of the content or tests unreasonably difficult. But what can I expect with med/surg clinicals? I feel like the transition from nursing home to hospital will be huge. The instructors have told us to really focus on knowing our meds like the back of our hands next semester, but other than that I don't know what to focus on to get prepared. Any advice, stories to share, etc. from your med/surg time in school? Is there anything you wish you'd known then now that you look back? Oh, and just to clarify, there is no OB, peds, ortho, anything like that in this clinical. I know some programs do a half OB, half med/surg or something to that extent for a semester, but we have OB/peds and psych in third and fourth semesters. Thank you to anyone who has anything to share! :)