Spring '05 grads-1 year in-how many new nurses you started w/ are still there?

[HappyNurse2005, RN]

So we've been at it for nearly a year now. HOw many of the new nurses you started with at your first out of school job are still there after a year? Are YOU still in the first job you started out with?

I started in May of '05. We had 10 new grads start then. Of those, 3 have left.

(Though, I know several people I graduated with who switched jobs within hte first year. )

i am still there. (can't say I haven't htought about leaving though, but I'd like to be a little more proficient in my current field before finding another!)

[NicuNightRN]

May '05 grad here! 3 new grads started on my unit with me, and all 3 of us are still there. I have no plans to leave my unit in the near future, but I would like to go to grad school sometime in the next few years. Also, several people I graduated switched jobs, but from what I have heard, most job changes were related to moving to another city or a different part of town.

Can you believe it's been nearly a year???

[icugirl33]

Hi,

I graduated in May 05 and started on a telemetry floor in June 05. I stayed there for 6 months, moved to the e/r january 06. I requested to go part time to work through my issues, mainly, I didn't want to go to work. I did one week per diem at a rehab facility. I was trying to find my nitch and I think I finally found it, away from the bedside. I start my new job at an insurance company as a UR nurse in a week. It pays well, great schedule (m-f 8/5), no weekends, no nights, etc...

I have been feeling a little guilty about leaving the bedside so early, but I need to be happy too. I have been miserable for 8 months.

[FreshRN05]

Hi,

I graduated in May 05 and started on a telemetry floor in June 05. I stayed there for 6 months, moved to the e/r january 06. I requested to go part time to work through my issues, mainly, I didn't want to go to work. I did one week per diem at a rehab facility. I was trying to find my nitch and I think I finally found it, away from the bedside. I start my new job at an insurance company as a UR nurse in a week. It pays well, great schedule (m-f 8/5), no weekends, no nights, etc...

I have been feeling a little guilty about leaving the bedside so early, but I need to be happy too. I have been miserable for 8 months.

Hi,

Your post reply caught my attention about switching to a non bedside nursing...working for an insuance company. I too graduated in May 05 and I've been working in a med-surg tele unit for almost a year...but I am more interested in possibly working for an insruance company. See prior to nursing shool I was doing billing (claims) for a medical office and I must say I really enjoyed doing it ( because I had no direct patient contant, mostly contact was on the phone). So what do you do as a UR nurse? How did you get the job and how well do they pay? I'm really curious and interested.

[grinnurse, RN]

Well 100% at the facility that I work at of course I was the only new nurse that started when I did LOL........couldn't resist this. Of all the nurses that I am still in contact with only 2 have changed jobs but lots are wanting to for various reasons. I went PRN to another hospital back around Nov but stayed in the same kind of unit but am still on the original unit that I started which is MS. I am orienting to ER but only to float and figure once I get that down in a couple of years may learn ICU.

[jandmsmom38]

I started on an oncology floor with one other grad. I'm still there and loving it. She moved onto a little less stressful/sad position.

[newnurse51]

Started off in telemetry right after graduation and lasted 8 months. Hospital floor nursing is not for me. Currently working as a weekend house supervisor in a nursing home and it is far less stressful. No benefits though. Not sure where my niche is yet but it's definitely not floor nursing. Several of my fellow graduates who started on the floor didn't last long and went on to other areas.

[ORSmurf]

I graduated in May 2005 and took a circulator position in the O.R.. I love it! It took about 6 months to get comfortable, and I wasn't sure I'd made the right choice for a while there, but now I'm so happy that I'm still there. I was an LVN/Scrub for about 8 years too. The only couple of people I've kept in contact with are still at the same hospital, although one went from DCU to ICU now, and the other started in ICU and just switched to cardiac rehab.

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

I started out in Neuro/Trauma with one new grad. We actually both left around the same time, (March). I do have to say though, that I was pretty happy there. Something better just happened to fall in my lap and I took it.

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Hi,

I graduated in May 05 and started on a telemetry floor in June 05. I stayed there for 6 months, moved to the e/r january 06. I requested to go part time to work through my issues, mainly, I didn't want to go to work. I did one week per diem at a rehab facility. I was trying to find my nitch and I think I finally found it, away from the bedside. I start my new job at an insurance company as a UR nurse in a week. It pays well, great schedule (m-f 8/5), no weekends, no nights, etc...

I have been feeling a little guilty about leaving the bedside so early, but I need to be happy too. I have been miserable for 8 months.

I'm so glad you found your niche. That's the great thing about nursing - there are so many areas you can work. )

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Can you believe it's been nearly a year???

I sure can't! WOW!

[PedsRNBSN]

There were six of us that started within a couple of months of each other....of those 2 are still there full time (not including me---I went PRN). One girl left during orientation (and wants to change to teaching), I left (and took one with me) to do Pre/Post op and OR circulating at an outpatient surgery center...(LOVE IT...pay is WAYYYYY better, great hours 6:15-4:15 Mone-THur, no nights, weekends, or holidays), one other left to go to another outpatient surgery center as well....so that leaves two.