Nursetaylor3

I'm an Rn working in a LTC facility and have been for 8 months. I honestly don't like it at all. I love my residents but the place itself I just don't like. I don't feel properly trained and for a long time I was the only RN on my shift so it was all up to me to do the RN parts. I had plenty of help from the LPNs but I just feel like I wasn't given the right type of training since I never actually got trained by an RN. Im feeling bad about myself as a nurse recently and I'm feeling like I want something more like a doctors office type of job or outpatient clinic or something along those lines. I live in a really small town where there aren't many opportunities except for hospital and LTC facilities and the occasional doctors office that will actually hire an RN. My question is where is the best type of place to go to find more opportunities in offices? Also any recommendations on things I can try like books to read or checklists to make in order to make my days a little less stressful and full of self doubt. I may be stuck in this job for a few more months and I don't want it to continue like this. It's affecting my social life to the point where I'm sleeping all the time and I'm not happy like I used to be. I'm sad and worrying about what I could have done wrong at work even when I'm not there.

I'm hitting the rough patch in my job right now and I absolutely hate being a nurse. I want to quit and find a new job. I'm getting talked to by my manager and I'm just ready to give up and say I was never cut out for this. I worry all the time that I'm messing up and I think that I don't know what I'm doing still. I've been working here for 8 months and I'm ready to give up nursing all together.

Thanks for all the advice. I'm trying to find a new field that seems like it would be a good fit for me. I just feel like medsurg type stuff or LTC where you have to know everything is too much for me to remember and I don't know if that makes me a bad nurse or not..

I've been an RN at a LTC/rehab facility for 8 months and I absolutely hate it. I come home crying more often than not. I love my residents, but I feel like I haven't been properly trained. Everyone says you learn most of nursing on the job, while in my facility I'm expected to know it all already. Due to staffing shortages I was the only RN in the building on my shift. I've been learning from lpns and working in an lpn position so I honestly feel like how am I supposed to know what I'm doing as an RN. I'm just sick of worrying and stressing and getting in trouble because I don't know what I'm doing. I've contemplated going back to school and finding something else but I never knew what I wanted to do career wise. I still dont. I just feel really stuck right now. I hate my job and I feel like there's nowhere else for me to turn since I don't have any idea what other career I would like to pursue.. any advice?

Mostly I'm forgetting the facts about medications and the diseases. Signs and symptoms and that stuff. If I can't remember what it is I look it up but don't you need to know more than just what it is? I just feel like I'm not well enough informed to make decisions on how to handle things. Does that come with time or should you know how to do that right out of nursing school because of the information you learned?

I'm a new RN I've been working in a LTC/rehab center for 6 months. I just am feeling really stressed out and like I don't know anything. Does anyone have any advice on things I should be studying to feel more comfortable with decision making? Should I reread my nursing texts? Or are there any recommendations for books I should get to keep up with things? I just feel like I'm forgetting everything I learned in school and how am I supposed to be able to make decisions if I forget about that stuff...

I've been an RN for about 6 months now working in a nursing home/ rehab center. Im having a lot of issues with self confidence and thinking that I shouldn't even be a nurse... I think most of it stems from not being confident in what I know and thinking that because I don't know something it means I'm just not good enough... I was wondering if anyone had any tips on like where I could find assessment chest sheets or just places to keep learning things because I'm slowly forgetting what I learned in nursing school.

I currently work in a rehab/long term care facility and I feel like they expect too much of me for just becoming a nurse 6 months ago. There's staffing issues where I work and they're expecting me to be the RN in the building when I'm on. Being a new RN who isn't very confident in herself I just can't handle this sort of job anymore. I was thinking I would like a doctors office job since I like the idea of repetition with not so much critical thinking. The only problem is there's not many doctors offices around where I live that advertise they'rere hiring RNs. I'm just asking for advice on what being a doctors office rn is like and what sort of places I should look for.

My orientation was like a week. And I was on my own for a night of it because someone called out.

Hey guys, So I've been at my new job about a month now and I can honestly say I feel like the stupidest person out there. I work in a nursing home giving out meds and doing skin assessments and things like that. Multiple people have been telling me a nursing home is no place for a new RN because you don't learn anything. Which I understand but I thought it would be a good place to get my feet wet. But being here for a month still makes me feel like I know absolutely nothing. Anything that comes up like a patient complaining of difficulty urinating or someone who has a skin tear I feel like I have no idea how to handle it and I go ask the other RN for advice. I honestly feel like I don't know anything and I'm not confident in making a judgement call on my own. Even about something as small as a skin tear. I feel like I'm a bad nurse and I'm being annoying asking the other nurses advice. Its like everything I learned in school just went out the window and I have no idea what I'm doing. Anyway I just wanted to be able to vent to someone and hopefully get some advice or feedback..

We have a couple hours to meet up between when he gets done and when i leave.

Hey guys So I started my first nursing job last week and I really like it. Funny because it was a field I didn't think I would want to go into at all. But I'm working the night shift (10-6). I have a boyfriend and we've been together for 2 years. He works a day shift and honestly I'm kind of worrying and wondering about if any of you guys have been on opposite shifts of your significant other and how it went. I'm just worried I won't get to see him as often as I would like. For a long time we spent every day together. But since I got this job we're going to be in different schedules and ill be working every other weekend as well. I guess I'm just asking for advice on how to manage the different schedules. Thanks

Hi guys, I'm starting my first ever nursing job next week. Its in a nursing home and I'm extremely nervous. I had a rough last semester in school with my clinical teacher telling me I couldn't be a nurse. Anyway I graduated and got my license despite what he said. Now I've gotten my first job and I'm extremely nervous that he's going to be right and I won't be able to do it. I'm a pretty shy person and I'm worried that's going to affect the kind of nurse I'm going to be. I just wanted some first day advice for a brand new RN.