Jeans93

Hey guys, I'm a new grad nurse and this is my first job ever at a behavioral health hospital. I always wanted to go into psych and had no interest in med-surg or anything like that. I don't really want to stay at this facility for long though because I don't like how things are done. Things are all over the place, it's understaffed, and everything's paper, including the MAR. What would be the minimum amount of time that I should stay at this facility where it wouldn't look terrible if I resigned? 6 months? or 1 year?

Hey guys, I'm a new grad nurse at a psych facility. I went into nursing because I knew about psych nursing and I always wanted to work with this population. However, my job isn't what I had hoped for. We have over 20 patients and I rarely get any patient contact. I'm still in training so I'm still learning and I only get 10 days of training. This place is also understaffed and everything's done by paper, even the MAR. I just don't want to risk losing my license and I already want to leave. I wanted to go into psych nursing so I can talk to them but there's no time and you don't even know more than half of your own patients. Are there any non hospital jobs in psych that I can look into? I also don't like all of the running around that the hospital nursing job entails. I was also looking into school nursing. Is it hard to become a school nurse as a new grad? Would I be able to advance my career if I became a school nurse though? I would want to get my masters. Are there any other non acute jobs? Any suggestions would be wonderful! Thanks!