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Thank you all of you guys for your support. I was so tired today after I came from work, still tired but not as much now. A good news. I worked a different unit(unit 100) for the first time, and it was way better than the unit I have been working since I was hired. People were more stable in todays unit with less acuity. Other nurses told me that I was hired to work in the hardest unit and it is not fair because I am a brand new nurse. And today those nurses proved themselves right. my shift was smooth today. At the same time I am proud of myself that I was able to handle the high acuity unit. I prayed today before I left to work. Yesterday night I could not sleep at all because I kept on having dreams about my nursing home. Today a new nurse told me she was there in the nursing home until 4 in the morning even though her shift ended 10 at night. She said they didn't have respiratory therapist for the whole week and today wound care nurse didn't come. She said she will quit soon as she feels she can loose her license by working there. I gave her my number and told her to call me whenever she wants because I know what she is going through. I feel so bad for her and really want to help her. We are really suffering a low-staff issue in our nursing home. Thank you guys so much. I am still so tired and has been so quite since I came from work. It is really a rough patch of my life, the hardest thing I have to ever deal with.

I haven't applied for the job yet. The opening for the residency program opens end of this month. I will surely share with you guys if I do or don't get in. I want to share my joy as much as I am sharing my sadness.

I haven't applied for the job yet. The opening for the residency program opens end of this month. I will surely share with you guys if I do or don't get in. I want to share my joy as much as I am sharing my sadness.

YES! YES! YES! I tried to talk to my husband about it and all he says for me to quit because he doesn't want me to go through stress. But I want to be a nurse, and I am definitely not a quitter. I did not worked so hard to come this far to quit. And I wish he understood this and helps me to follow my dream of becoming a nurse. No instead all he says if this is causing you stressed, you should quit. And I don't want to hear this. It makes me mad. He is supposed to help me get through this...So i am glad I found you guys who understands me and helping me to get through. I must go through this to get through this..

I like this idea. I have decided to by a diary. So tomorrow after work I will go to buy one. Maybe I will not use the dairy for my current job because currently I really don't work much in here since I am only PRN for the weekends. So some weekends I work some I don't. Some weeks I only work the Saturday or Sunday. But I am buying a diary anyways because I will definitely use it for my hospital job which I will apply for end of this month. I hope I get in as they only take 10 new grads. Thank you for your great idea. This will help me to learn faster.

Hey thanks for the idea. I just told my sister that we are going out tomorrow after I get back from work. And I will definitely buy a dairy tomorrow. For the first time I am not feeling as bad as I usually feel the day before my work. Thank you for assuring that everyone go through this. Even though I knew it, it feels better to hear from you.

Hello Ruby, I thought that nursing home is not for me because I never liked nursing home. Only reason I applied to the nursing home because the hospital I want to work does not hire LVNs. I am in the RN program and did extra clinical hours in the summer just to get my LVN license and start gaining experience. And I am so glad I did that. This is truly a experience but from the beginning I never wanted to work in nursing home. I just love the feel of the hospital environment. Also I would rather have 6-7 patients rather than having 20 patients. And I am not saying that hospital nursing is any easier. I know it is busy in the hospital too. Even me as a student during my clinical is very busy. But I would rather be busy with less patients and I feel I will learn a lot more in the hospital. Just really hoping I will be able to get in the residency program which they only talk 10 new grads. Thank you for giving me all these options to relieve my stress. I love writing. So thank you so much for replying to me. It really makes me feel that someone is listening to me and understands me. Thank you. We new nurses would not be able to survive without you guys. I love you guys. Oh my God. yes really I am saying this I love you guys..You know why? because you guys are helping me to go through the toughest thing I have ever done. And that could be the simplest reason to love someone.

Thank you ixchel. I just can't wait for that day of victory when I feel that I have enough knowledge to help a new oriented. Since I have started my job I thought to myself that if there is ever a new oriented in my unit, I will help her/him with my heart and soul because I know what that person is going through. And that is reason I am here because only you guys will understand my pain and what I am going through. No matter what I tell my husband or my sisters, I don't think they will understand me like you guys. So thank you so much. I love you guys all. Nursing is a great profession. I love what I do so I want to continue it no matter how much it is hurting me now. As I said earlier I am a PRN nurse for the weekend. So whenever they call me to work that following week, the two days before my work I can't enjoy anything. Every moment I think to myself "oh I have to work this weekend." and is this weird feeling in my stomach drive me crazy. No matter how much I try to stop thinking about it, it won't stop. But I think I am able to stop myself a little now. And you reply truly helping me.thanks.

Hello everyone, I was hoping you guys can help with my stress as a new nurse. How did you guys survived when you first started working?. Any tips or feedback will help. I just feel that being a new nurse is extremely stressful. To me nursing school was not that hard but being a new nurse is the hardest thing I have ever done and I want to conquer it. I want to be my best and feel happy to go to work. Honestly speaking I feel nursing school does not prepares us for the real world job. Currently I am working in a nursing home PRN in the weekend only as I am still going to school for my RN. I feel that nursing home is not for me. Is this ok to feel this way? I can't wait to finish my RN and get a job in the hospital that I have been doing my clinical. I have a great chance of getting a job there as I have done extra clinical hours to get my LVN license while I am in the RN program. So do you guys think its ok for me to think that nursing home is just not for me?? Can it be possible that hospital is better for me? I feel very depressed while working there because I have only two other nurse working with me in the weekend and no supervisor or charge nurse, just the three of us. I love the hospital when I go for my clinical. I like the environment how there are more nurses, charge nurse, and other staff members. It is a different environment than the nursing home which I like, a more cheerful environment. Also I would love feedback on how to survive being a new nurse. Thanks to everyone for support. I love this website and so glad I found it!

Thank you guys for your input. this is really sad and depressing. I thought spending my money to get MSN, i would at least make the equal amount of money if not more. But I love teaching so maybe I will just do that part-time. Thank you everyone for your input. This really does helps, so I am not all surprised when I get my MSN, lol.

Hello Everyone, I am interested in getting my MSN to be a college nursing educator. You know the professors who took us to the hospital for clinical and lectured in class? That's what I want to do..Just the feeling of taking nursing students to hospital for clinical excites me!!. I love teaching. Anyways to get to the point, I was wondering how much does a professor makes who teaches at ADN programs?. I checked in google and I am getting all different kinds of number. So if anyone can pls give me an idea, that will really help!. Waiting for feedback. Thanks guys!

Congrats!!. I can totally remember this feeling two years ago when i got accepted to my nursing program. I am going to graduate this May. Good luck to you!

Hey BecomingNursey, First of all, thank you so much for your quick reply. You are right I am definitely stressed out as a new nurse. But after that incident I got even more stressed. Its like that nurse made my new nursing experience even worse. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I just needed to really just talk to someone who understands my situation. And I feel unless its another nurse, no one else can really understand what I am going through. But I am now determined. No matter what I will stick to the job. Hopefully this job will help me to be less stressed when I go to the hospital. I think nursing home is just not for me. I feel depressed seeing some of my pts so helpless. And there are so much to do, and I wish I can do more. But it seems I never have enough time to completely do everything I want to do. I want to talk to my pts but with the workload I get, i never get time to have a satisfying conversation. Anyways I am determined to learn and improve each and everyday. Thank you so much for reply!.

Sorry guys just realized how long my post is. But I really needed to let it out..thanks ahead for your feedback.

Hello everyone, I started coming to this website few weeks ago when I first started my first job in a nursing home. I am currently in an ADN program and will graduate this may with my RN. After first year in our program we had option to take more classes in the summer and get LVN license which I did and got a job in a nursing home. I had 4 days of orientation day. And out of those 4 days, for 2 days i had a preceptor who taught me enough just to do his/her job for the day. Then i had another preceptor who did the same, nothing but making me do his/her assignments for the day. I wish I did something about it then but I didn't want to be mean or rude. Then I had another preceptor on the 4th day who was better but that was my last day. Anyways now I am on the floor by myself. There are just too many patients for me to take care of. But I was doing ok even though I was overwhelmed as a new nurse until one day that same preceptor who made me do nothing but their assignments for two days, talked me down. I am so upset since that day and feel very anxious to go to work. I only work as PRN but since that day I feel just so overwhelmed and not wanting to work in this nursing home. The two nurses who are usually on the floor with me said I was a very good nurse because anything I don't know i just ask for help instead of taking risk. They helps me a lot and said many times that they like my approach that i ask for help. So i thought i was doing really good because i had no complaints from the management. But this same preceptor has made me feel so bad one day when I was giving shift report to him/her. since that day I am dreading myself to work. I can't sleep eat. every time I think about work, everything around me gets so depressed. I don't know why this is such a big deal to me even though I know this nurse is even rude with others. This nurse tells all the other nurse sitting in nursing station that he/she takes work seriously and that is why he/she doesn't have time to chitchat. Seriously as nurses we all take work seriously if we didn't we would be at work. Anyways I am scared of this nurse, scared that I all have to meet this nurse again one day at work, and he/she makes me feel anxious, intimidating. I am so overwhelmed with my new job. Pls tell me when this stress will be relieved. At times I think/talk to my self why am I so overwhelmed. The job is not hard then why I feel this way. Pls tell me what I can do to relieve this stress. I will be living this job as soon as I get my RN and going to the hospital. But until then I would love to continue this job and get experience so my job at the hospital could be less stressful. I need all the feedback I can get. At home I can't express my feelings with anyone because a nurse can understand another nurse's feeling. So how long what is before you guys felt ok or even happy to go to work??