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what are my chances of ever working in that hospital again?

I recently quit this past week my 1st ever tech job as a Nursing student b/c i felt it was unsafe. I had to juggle up to 15 patients, some mentally unstable and some being total/complete care with not much help from the nurses/techs and unsupportive management. I thought i'd be gaining valuable skills but all i did was clean patients for most of the day. This was something i was already taught in NS, so i dont need the additional practice. i felt like i was doing all the grunt work. The nurses were mainly charting and giving out meds, but they too seemed busy but their work is alot less physical. I was thinking of just working at my friends dads company as an administrative assistant until i graduate. It pays more and its a lot less work....It was a nice hospital, id like to go back, but only as a nurse.

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Btw, OP...finding a job most certainly will not be cake just because you're a tech. When I was in school some of the CNA's in my class didn't get hired in the unit they worked at, or even the hospital. Working somewhere may actually make them inclined NOT to hire you because they see your character before you're even a nurse.

Yup, I know many techs in my unit who wanted the job and thought it would be a formality of a title change when they graduated nursing school. Nope, most are in different units or at entirely different hospitals. Nurses get interviewed about new grads who are techs and the directors listen.

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even if you are a PCA doesn't mean that you'll get hired for sure... you sound a little bit arrogant there.

@Leonardsmom. yes. those unpleasant things as staff RN you'll do. I'm on a med-surg floor for my current rotation, and I see bones, amputations, etc. pressure ulcer wound changings, and you get used to the odors. i feel disillusioned sometimes, that we are torturing even more these patients with multiple co morbidities by keeping them alive, some of them seem very unhappy with their lives. but from the other pov, we need to prolong lives.

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OP, don't brag about being a RN until you earn the the title, you still have to graduate, then you still have to pass the NECLEX exam, then you have to find someone that hires a new grad nurse. Many new grads have a hard time getting that first job. And as for those big bucks you will be making, well the pay will be good, but the ones who will be making the big bucks will always be the more experienced RN's then you. The reality of all this once you become a RN is you will still have way to much work to do, your career will be spent cleaning a lot of foul smelling odors, etc. A great nurse is one who does not have a over inflated ego, because they are people who truly want to be a RN to help people, the ones who went into nursing strictly for the pay are those who complain that they got their hands dirty at work by having to clean a patient who they have no compassion for. Good luck, but change your attitude about patient care, focus on how good it feels to help them instead of getting mad about having to do all the dirty work that comes with your future job.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Gyn, Pospartum & Psych.

I'm glad you found a job you like. However, unless you are in an area desperate for RNs AND is willing to hire new grads, I doubt that getting that first job will be " a piece of cake ". We have a very skilled Nurse Tech on our floor who just graduated from nursing school. Based on talking to her, I suspect she is one of the smartest new grads I have ever met. However, our floor "suddenly" didn't have any RN positions open when she wanted to be hired as an RN and she was forced to interview elsewhere in the hospital. She was known for having a bad attitude and being one of the "incredible disappearing" nurse techs and I know I wasn't happy when she was assigned to my patients because I knew I'd be doing extra work that shift. Ironically, I keep seeing new nurses showing up on orientation even though we didn't have any open positions for her.... just saying ...

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... you sound a little bit arrogant there.

OP's name is "Themostsupreme". :facepalm:

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@Leonardsmom. yes. those unpleasant things as staff RN you'll do. I'm on a med-surg floor for my current rotation, and I see bones, amputations, etc. pressure ulcer wound changings, and you get used to the odors. i feel disillusioned sometimes, that we are torturing even more these patients with multiple co morbidities by keeping them alive, some of them seem very unhappy with their lives. but from the other pov, we need to prolong lives.

Oh, I know. Over the past eight years as an aide I have helped my nurses with many of those things. The OP seems disillusioned about what they will do as a nurse and seems to express that "CNA/PCT" duties are below them. OP all of that which falls under the aides scope of practice is part of a nurse's scope of practice. It is your responsibility to make sure that a patient's needs are met.

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I never expect my aids to do anything. If I have down time, you bet your bottom I'm in there cleaning someone up or doing some "dirty work". That's how you gain respect from your coworkers! If you expect them to do ALL of your dirty work, even when you clearly have down time, who's to say that they will be there for you when you really need them? If you never helped them, they may sit back and enjoy watching you crash and burn when you need help. Not only that, but that's what you signed up for. I never JUST give meds and chart. I take care of my patient as a whole. You know, the whole mind, body, spirit thing. What im trying to say I guess is that everyone is on the same team. Just because their job description is different from yours doesn't mean that you arent working for the same purpose and can't do some dirty work. No job is beneath you. Okay. I think my vent is over.

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Anybody want to make book on how long his present employers will take to realize they're being played for fools by somebody who is explicit about not wanting to do actual work, preferring to sit at the desk and "get paid for studying"?

The bit about 2-week orientation consisting of one week of classes, fun and apparently acceptable, and one week on the floor, not what he wants to do at ALL, was jaw-dropping. But then again, perhaps not. I must be a slow learner, since it took me this long to catch on.

Wonder how how long he thinks it will take to get a job that he won't lose in the first three months? How's that gonna look when he applies to NP school? And who will write his letters of recommendation? Popcorn, popcorn!!

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I never expect my aids to do anything. If I have down time, you bet your bottom I'm in there cleaning someone up or doing some "dirty work". That's how you gain respect from your coworkers! If you expect them to do ALL of your dirty work, even when you clearly have down time, who's to say that they will be there for you when you really need them? If you never helped them, they may sit back and enjoy watching you crash and burn when you need help. Not only that, but that's what you signed up for. I never JUST give meds and chart. I take care of my patient as a whole. You know, the whole mind, body, spirit thing. What im trying to say I guess is that everyone is on the same team. Just because their job description is different from yours doesn't mean that you arent working for the same purpose and can't do some dirty work. No job is beneath you. Okay. I think my vent is over.

Darn, I am still hoping to get to the point I have "down time" on a shift. I just recently started eating my "lunch". However, I do know that the aids respect me because I do not consider anything "below" me and will even slide a bed pan under a patient that isn't mine but her call light is on and the aid is busy. In the end, I care about the patient. Not to mention, everything the aid does or doesn't do is my legal responsibility to verify it has been done and done correctly.

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Darn, I am still hoping to get to the point I have "down time" on a shift. I just recently started eating my "lunch". However, I do know that the aids respect me because I do not consider anything "below" me and will even slide a bed pan under a patient that isn't mine but her call light is on and the aid is busy. In the end, I care about the patient. Not to mention, everything the aid does or doesn't do is my legal responsibility to verify it has been done and done correctly.

Exactly! And believe me, I know that down time doesn't come often. But when it does, I don't like to seem useless, so I go and help my aids with anything they need help with. It's all apart of a job! We work for the same purpose. As long as it isn't out of my scope of practice, its my job too.

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Earning the aid's respect is one of the best things I ever did on this new job. I have heard that even the unit secretary has run interference with the charge nurses when they tried to overload me with a new admit when a more experienced nurse had less patients. More than once, an aid has quietly done my hourly rounding for me when I was busy with patient care. This is my reward for doing vitals or helping the extremely time consuming patient to the bathroom while passing meds so that they can get to the rest of their 12 patients in a timely manner. If the aid walked in, she would be subjected to the same long drawn out stories and complaints that I already have listened to. If I can't do both, at least I "schedule" my meds to be at the same time as the aid's duties so that she can duck out of their while I distract the patient with my assessment or questions.

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