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Thank you both for the advice! My interview is tomorrow and I am pretty nervous. I'm practicing interview questions tonight and reviewing topics specific to this area just to be prepared. I am hoping my experience will help me stand out.

I'm a newish nurse. I worked on a Women's Surgical floor for one year before the hospital kicked us off our floor and moved us to a med surg tele floor where I have been for almost two months now. Well I gave the tele floor a chance and I've learned a lot but I mainly learned that it is not for me. The whole reason I chose to work on Women's Surgical was because it was an all women's floor and it was part of Women's and Children's unit which includes mother/baby, L&D, NICU, and peds. Women's health and maternal nursing have always been my passion. I loved working on the Women's surgical floor and during that time I got to cross train on the other floors. On the med surg tele floor I stay stressed out constantly and it makes me not even want to be a nurse anymore. So I saw a position for the mother/baby floor and I applied. I have an interview in a few days and I'm really nervous because I want this job so bad! This is always what I have wanted to do. My question is, how can I relay to the director whom I am interviewing with how passionate I am about this area of nursing? I don't want to just sound like I am just saying this or that so I will get hired. Also, any specific interview questions for this area that I should be prepared for? I am hoping my previous experience cross training on this floor will help. I also had received a perinatal bereavement counselor certification last year when I was working on Women's surgical and included this in my resume. Thank you in advance!

I'm a newish nurse. I worked on a Women's Surgical floor for one year before the hospital kicked us off our floor and moved us to a med surg tele floor where I have been for almost two months now. Well I gave the tele floor a chance and I've learned a lot but I mainly learned that it is not for me. The whole reason I chose to work on Women's Surgical was because it was an all women's floor and it was part of Women's and Children's unit which includes mother/baby, L&D, NICU, and peds. Women's health and maternal nursing have always been my passion. I loved working on the Women's surgical floor and during that time I got to cross train on the other floors. On the med surg tele floor I stay stressed out constantly and it makes me not even want to be a nurse anymore. So I saw a position for the mother/baby floor and I applied. I have an interview in a few days and I'm really nervous because I want this job so bad! This is always what I have wanted to do. My question is, how can I relay to the director whom I am interviewing with how passionate I am about this area of nursing? I don't want to just sound like I am just saying this or that so I will get hired. Also, any specific interview questions for this area that I should be prepared for? I am hoping my previous experience cross training on this floor will help. I also had received a perinatal bereavement counselor certification last year when I was working on Women's surgical and included this in my resume. Thank you in advance!

I am in my last semester of nursing school and I'm failing I don't know what it is about this semester, but I have never had test grades this low! I think it is part that the questions are harder than ever before, part I have senioritis and am so ready to be done!!, and part the way our teachers present the material. Last semester they decided to quit lecturing in the classroom, record a lecture in a video for you to watch at home, and then come to class for 4 or more hours to work through case studies and play games. This has really made me struggle because them lecturing in a video basically reading from the book is not the same as when they would lecture in class. Plus it's hard to spend hours watching a lecture at home and then hours in class as well, IMO such a waste of time. I have failed every test. We only have 1 test left, 3 HESI exams (which I always tend to do bad on), and then the final. With my average even if I make a 90 on this next test that still would only leave me with a 73.0 and we have to have a 74.5 to pass. I know that doesn't seem too bad but there is literally no way I could make a 90 on the next exam. It's just so frustrating because everyone is excited about graduating and the teachers keep telling us we are almost done. I even had already went for an interview for a nurse residency program and was accepted. But the hardest part for me has been stressing out about how I am going to tell my family. My husband is VERY supportive and said it's not a big deal if I fail and have to retake. It is everyone else I am worried about. Even the ones I am not close with, I am just worried about what they are going to think about me. They are all expecting me to graduate in May. I just feel so much pressure and have been stressed out more than ever. Anyone else fail their last semester before graduation? How did you handle it and what did you say to your family?

Yes, my position is MA. They call it "orientation" which is basically my first month working there, I will be working with another nurse to help teach me everything. I know I will be doing IM injections but not sure about ID. This is a clinic that sees a little bit of everything, adults and children. I know they don't expect me to know everything, but I really want to impress them. I also get nervous on first days, I used to be a nervous wreck at clinicals. Hopefully, everything will go well and I will learn a lot.

The interview went well and I got the job! Tomorrow will be my first day training at the clinic and I'm pretty nervous! It's been a while since I have been at clinical and have had to practice skills. She will be watching me take vitals (just practicing on staff I assume) and practicing injections on a sponge (which I'll admit I definitely need practice with, I've only given one subQ injection). I'm nervous also because technically I am not a medical assistant, just a 2nd semester nursing student. I feel like I will be expected to know things and be perfect with my skills, when honestly I need some practice. I guess all I can do is review tonight, and try my best tomorrow.

Thank you for answering! I will only be working part time so I'm not sure what all they will want me to do. I'm pretty nervous since I have never worked in the healthcare setting. I have only ever given two SubQ injections. I'm hoping they will give me good training before I am on my own. If you don't mind, could you give me a good answer for "handling an irrate patient"? I would think to just try to calm the patient down and if that didn't work call for assistance..?

I'm in my second semester of nursing school and tomorrow I have an interview for a Medical Assistant position at a local clinic. I am excited but also nervous as I have never worked in healthcare. My only experience is clinicals. Can anyone give me a description of what all I will be doing in a clinic setting? I'm going to review my fundamental skills prior to starting, as I have been focused solely on pharmacology and patho lately. I just want an idea of what to expect. Thank you in advance!

The reason I decided I wanted to become a nurse was because in high school they made us do projects on our future career. I had NO idea what I wanted to do so I started thinking about my interests. I had always been fascinated with pregnant women and newborns. I would watch all kinds of medical shows and reality shows about women giving birth and raising their babies. So I began researching who takes care of the babies when they are born. And I stumbled upon the NICU. I fell in love with the idea of getting to be the one to take care of the sick fragile newborns. I even job shadowed in a NICU at our local hospital my senior year. I saw many sick babies and it was very sad, but I knew that it is what I wanted to do. Being in nursing school, the majority of time you are learning how to take care of the adult patient, and only one semester is dedicated to OB/Peds. Sometimes we will be learning about something that has to do with care of the adult patient and it just makes me question whether I am in the right field. I have very little interest in working with adults. I could do it, like I do at clinicals, but if it was something I had to do for the rest of my life I would not want to be a nurse. My heart is with children, but mostly babies in general. I wouldn't mind working with pregnant women in L&D either. It sucks because I know those are probably two of the most popular specialties and it will be hard to find a job especially straight out of school. Is it normal to feel like this as a nursing student?? Don't get me wrong I love learning everything that we are learning, but I just feel like already knowing what specialty I want to work in can make it hard to learn about the other stuff. I am taking OB/Peds next semester and I can not wait!!

I started nursing school in January of this year, passed my first semester, and now I am in my second semester. When I started, I had a friend I graduated high school with in the program with me so I would always sit with her at lecture. We were not in the same clinical group and we made our "cohorts" and everything was okay. My group was different personalities but mostly people around my age. By the end of the semester, I still didn't feel very close with them. And my friend from high school did not pass. I was 19 when I started the program, I am now 20. I consider myself more of an ambivert (mix of introvert and extrovert). I don't mind talking to people, but I am kind of shy until I get to know you type person. I am married so I like to spend most of my time with my husband and family. I don't party or drink, which most young people in my program do. I also don't like study groups, I prefer to study alone. My cohort from my first semester liked to do study groups and go out to eat ALL the time which I could not afford to do. Therefore, they were all together a lot while I was not. And the last time they did a study group they wound up getting into an argument about something so I was glad I didn't go. Now that I am in my second semester, I feel like everyone already has friends they made from the first semester. I could have cried when I found out my friend from high school did not pass! We got along so well and were the same personality. Now I am a loner. It really wouldn't bother me much because I am not looking to make friends to hang out with on the weekends, but it sucks going to class and my biggest worry is where I am going to sit or who to sit by. I don't want to sit by myself and be left out and I don't want people to think that I am sitting alone because I want to. I have tried making small talk with people but it was just small talk and then they went back talking to their friends.. There are people that will talk to me every now and then but I still feel alone.. I am going to try and put myself out there more I guess. It is just hard because I have never had problems making friends until now. It makes it even worse that we don't have a clinical this semester because I feel like if I was forced to be in a group with people I could make some friends. Sorry if this rant bored you to death lol. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Thank you so much for your advice! You are right, I am lacking confidence. Especially with all my classmates around me who always seem so confident, it makes me second guess myself. I have decided I am going to apply as soon as I get my class schedule. Hopefully it will help make me feel more comfortable with the patients and help me to become a better student nurse :)

I will start my second semester of nursing school this fall and I am contemplating applying for a part time job as a PCT at the local hospital where I have clinicals. I currently work at a daycare. As much as I would love to work at the hospital and get more experience, I am also scared. I am just so afraid of messing up or hurting someone.. Even before every clinical I get so nervous and almost feel sick because of the unknown of what could happen that day. I'm one of those shy until I get to know you type people so I feel awkward at first when meeting new patients.. I like to stay in my comfort zone, but idk if that is just because I'm still young (19) and unexperienced. Also, I am scared because I feel like once I start working in the hospital and then graduate nursing school there is no turning back. It's like that it's your an adult, you're a nurse and you are responsible for other people's lives.. Is it normal to feel like this? Sometimes it makes me question if nursing school is right for me... My other classmates always seem so confident and excited while I am nervous and scared..