Should I stay in the same place as a new RN as I am currently as a CNA

[RN student09]

I currently work as a CNA and will graduate in December. I have bee offered a position as an RN once I graduate. I worry that it will be difficult for me to not continue to do the work I do now and also for the others nurses to see me as a RN and not as a CNA. Would I be better to stay where I know I have a job or start looking for something else?

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Still a student, but I have seen some new hires, GNs from my school just a semester ahead of me and beginning orientation get treated horribly by staff and CNAs on the very floors they had clinical on. I'm not talking just issues of developmental immaturity (childishness) in staff members. I am talking sabotage on their very first week of orientation.

One or two who were CNA's got the worse tx. I was shocked and have decided that that hospital is not for me. A total lack of professionalism. That hospital was a choice for this last semester as a clinical site. Not one student from my clinical group chose that site again for our last semester of school having witnessed this behavior. We also made sure we passed the word on to other students. I have also informed family and close friends to avoid that hospital at all costs. Bullying in nursing leads to patient safety issues. A very dangerous place. Remember, you will most likely be pressured to use the resources of the hospital you work at for your personal health benefits!

OP, you probably should keep your eyes open for how things work for new hires on your floor. This information will be a guide in your decision-making. Your first year I hear, is what can make or break you as a nurse, you can't afford to waste this time with sub-par experience.