Specialties General Specialties
Published Feb 9, 2020
You are reading page 2 of Ruining My Career?
caliotter3
38,333 Posts
The only situation that might hurt your career is to not work in nursing at all for an extended period of time. That might elicit an explanation during a job interview. All nursing managers understand that your skill set will be strongest in the area in which you are currently working.
Kooky Korky, BSN, RN
5,216 Posts
On 2/11/2020 at 9:13 PM, CommunityRNBSN said:If you don’t want to work in a hospital, why on earth would you need to gain experience working in a hospital??I do a lot of diabetes education in my job at an FQHC. It’s incredibly important and needed. As evidence: My patient today was diagnosed with T2DM in 2016, has been under the care of a series of PCPs since that time, and did not know what “carbohydrate” meant. He said “Nobody ever talked to me about what I should eat.” They just give him Lantus and Metformin and call it a day. (And then they wonder why his A1C was 10.)
If you don’t want to work in a hospital, why on earth would you need to gain experience working in a hospital??
I do a lot of diabetes education in my job at an FQHC. It’s incredibly important and needed. As evidence: My patient today was diagnosed with T2DM in 2016, has been under the care of a series of PCPs since that time, and did not know what “carbohydrate” meant. He said “Nobody ever talked to me about what I should eat.” They just give him Lantus and Metformin and call it a day. (And then they wonder why his A1C was 10.)
Scary.
I do wonder if they have talked to him about diet, but he just didn't understand. Who knows? Anyway, glad you got through to him on that.