Should I take a job in Nursing home

[Sanhect1]

I was recently offered a position in a nursing home. I am getting mixed feed back on whether or not to take the job.

I don't have any experience.

its a week orientation.

and pay starts at 30.00 hourly.

i am not sure what to do.

one person told me I could have too many patients and im worried about my license. And another person told me to take it cause I need the experience.

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Hi and thank you for your concern I really appreciate all the feed back that is given to me. I initially wanted to turn down the job but am in the process now of taking it. I am still facing eviction and have run into another problem. It's almost like I am being plagued with bad luck. I went to go through the background check at the ltc I did not want to work at. And it would not go through. It turns out someone or an error occurred and I was accidentally reported dead to the social security administration. So now I am in the process of having that reversed because I am clearly alive.

Or someone stole your identity and reported you dead...

[Sanhect1]

Or someone stole your identity and reported you dead...

My identity wasn't stolen I just got reported dead by mistake. It's the stupidest thing. I went to get it fixed the other day. The background check ppl couldn't go through with the process and after being on the phone with them for an hour we figured it out.

[piquant]

I had 3 days orientation in an LTC setting too and it was a nightmare on my first day on my own. But I got through it just fine, after a couple of weeks bombarding my coworkers with lots of questions and getting to know the patients and their usual concerns. As an RN, there are times youre the only RN esp if youre on NOC shift. You can be the RN supervisor and have your own set of patients too. Here in Southern Cali, new grad RNs start at 24/hr.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

Despite the name of my post acute unit, there is nothing post about most of the patients we're getting. In the last two months, we've had 24 people admitted as part of the medicare waiver....half of them straight from the ER....many with new chest tubes, bipaps and cpaps. It's not easy dealing with acute people on a post acute budget but we all pull together and get it done....quite well if I do say so.

[noelia23RN]

I think 1 week is too little but it's nothing like working in a hospital would I take it,probably! You can continue to interview and apply at other facilities while you're getting experience and pay.

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