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this can be true... however; when you give your entire assignment to a veteran nurse, she goes straight to the charge and has a hissy-fit about her patient load. demands an exchange. and i know when i have gotten a "gem" when i give report to the ...

nothing works... the closest success was the bed alarm... even then,when a bed alarm goes off, nobody answers it if UNLESS THEIR own pt has a bed alarm. teamwork (sarcasm). 1:1 is the only way to go.

southern california checking in. you will almost have no problems finding a job as an EXPERIENCED RN... i emphasize experience 1+ year(s). your experience will triumph almost any degree/certification. get your BSN WHILE employed. the assistance de...

OP... you'll learn. try 2 sticks and then tell your charge. i put in 4 successful lines in the past 3 days. i need to find an adequately staffed hospital. IV team...? i don't even have a CNA~!

i second this... at my current facility, i can put in at least 72 hours a week (if i wanted to do so) because of staffing issues.

8 weeks is enough for you to manage low to mild acuity patient load. also, keep in mind you WILL NOT learn everything during orientation. it's not possible. there are parameters in place to keep you from making mistakes. however, they WILL happen...

prioritize patient CARE/SAFETY and you'll be ok. although they say "if you didn't chart it, you didn't do it." i wouldn't worry about that UNLESS the organization is out to can you. there are nurses on my floor who NEVER chart until the end of the s...

hospital i work at just hired 3 new graduates without any experience. seems to me there are just as many if not more nursing jobs than there are any other type profession.

We just hired (3) brand NEW graduates with NO experience. FYi... I was on the floor the other day with 75% of my staff being non-experienced (less than 1 year) Registered Nurses. My location is Southern California/Los Angeles. You need to know where...

where so...? i might plan to move out there.

this is seems to be the norm nowadays.

before you move, i would try to make a direct connection with facilities (not just hospitals) you are interested in. i got a job in So. Cal with no experience (ASN new graduate) within a week after passing boards. sitting on your ass and sending o...

i was offered an 8k relocation package to Louisiana (IIRC)... but i decided to work at this understaffed/underpaid (in comparison to other facilities in the region) hospital in southern california, instead. lol...

i live in Los Angeles. just now, i searched for a Registered Nurse position within a 50 mile radius of my zip code. 300 NEW (as in was posted, yesterday) showed up... the majority wanted 1+ year of experience or specified "NO NEW GRADUATE". i fe...

that sucks... i got a job in 1 (if not the most) saturated job markets in the US because i volunteered. somebody at another hospital made a phone call for me and 1 week after the NCLEX, i was employed. though i wish i had applied to a hospital wit...

just know basic/high level stuff, emphasizing life/death here... i didn't have a pharmacology class or even practiced questions, period. i had a couple of drugs on my exam and i had no idea what they were. i still passed in 75 on try #1. get a soli...

you need to find a new preceptor. escalate the situation, if needed. you don't need to be at the bedside half-ass nursing and making mistakes that could cost you your license. worse case scenario... you get fired. jobs are a dime a dozen. FYI, i ...

you'll fit right in with the majority of people who want to be nurses. they don't like it... but it's stable and pays bills. the problem with the job market in california is that they will not hire new graduates. i emphasize NEW... HOWEVER, the...

i hope you take my advice and request a change. you have LITTLE TIME. i tried to come to my preceptor with problems i had, but once she realized it was twice the effort to actually TEACH me... it started all over again. you are not receiving a prop...

-nobody wants to spend $$$ to train new graduates. -few nurses want the additional workload to train a new graduate. they are somewhat correlated. when i punch in my zip code 90012/Los Angeles and "registered nurse" i get about 20+ pages at 50 jobs...

unless it is legally mandated in nursing or in your state, the worse thing you can do is put a position you were terminated from on your resume.

odd... i know this is an old thread, 50-75% of the people i had orientation with graduated with an associates. new graduates. at least half the people on the floor ARE NOT bsn nurses. i am a california new graduate with no experience. took me a ...

you don't need to relocate, yet. get out of that chair and start networking, going to job fairs, volunteering... etc. you don't need a BSN, if you make the right connections. TRUST ME on this one. i live in los angeles. 50% of the nurses on my fl...

learn short cuts and start delegating.

probably got fired because the person decided to have some random nonsense talk with their preceptor instead of trying to request a new one. i am a new hire and attempted this chit chat with my trainer and got the middle finger. hopefully, the e...