yourfuturern22

Hi guys! I've been a nurse for 1 year and 2 months. My charge nurse just recently came to me and told me that I would be charge nurse tonight and I would be the charge nurse when 2 of our other relief charge nurses leave in just 2-3 months. I was a nervours reck for that first night, we had 7 admissions and 2 unplanned transfers to special care, which left me feeling horrible and with a knot in my stomach the whole night. Btw. I work on an acute care peds unit. This charge nurse position is a responsibility that I do not want right now and neither do I feel that I have enough experience for. As I told u before 2 of the older nurses are leaving and they've only been nurses for 2-3 years. This leaves our night shift team with 10 new nurses that have been doing nurses for less than 1 year and 1 senior nurse that's part time with 20+ years experience. I'm overwhelmed and feel like all of this is unsafe. Can I refuse charge nurse position, do I have a choice? Is this unsafe nursing practice? If you were in my position would u start looking for jobs immediately. (Btw this is what I'm doing). All advice appreciated!!!

Hi, I just recently graduated from nursing school with my bsn. I am looking to become a family nurse practitioner. Within 1-3 years of working as a rn. I want to know realisticly is the nurse practitioner route worth it? I am looking for more autonomy, a higher level of education, without having go to med school . For those of you who are a nurse practitioner, do you enjoy it, are you happy you made the decision to become a nurse practitioner, and do you feel you are compensated in salary/ hourly fairly for your work?