IS the hard truth for most nurses definitely new grads is that poop cleaning and urine collection RN jobs are all that is open?
Pretty much bedside care, running around like a chicken with your head cutoff.
I don't think ICU solves the issue either.
Definitely thinking about different degree, since experience is the only way to open up other nursing positions, but I am not about to work bedside for 10 years. I would rather go back to school.
I have a couple of months of bedside experience so is there anything else I can do besides bedside care? If not I have no choice to move on.
There is no way I can pursue marriage a family by bringing home income this way. Just not going to happen.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
The original post contained the phrase, "running around like a chicken with your head cutoff", and yet, you, and the majority of the people chose to ignore that. This is either intentional, due to your agendas, or due to low reading comprehensions. I love women and consider myself a feminist, but thanks. You again, are missing the point, women are told to be submissive and go along to get along. Which most women seem to fine with, when it comes to administration and management, but on here and with your co-workers your attitude and tone is very typical.
And your point is?
My reading comprehension is just fine, and my "agenda" is anti-misogyny and pro-nursing. If you wrote the twaddle that I quoted, you are not a feminist; you're a misogynist. "Loving women" doesn't make you a feminist.
I'm not sure what your country of origin might be, but in the United States women who are told to be submissive and to "go along to get along" might just up and display a back bone.
OP-look into school nursing, home health, clinic work...there are other routes that might work for you.
School nursing for this OP? Oh, where do I start. How about NO.
It tends to be repeated around this forum that if someone has difficulty keeping up with the workload in acute care, or doesn't like the work that is associated with direct patient care in a hospital setting, that a better choice is home health or school nursing.
I haven't done either, but I have friends/colleagues who work in both fields and there is NOTHING about what they describe that would make me think that someone who is failing /not surviving well in med-surg would instantly find themselves in nirvana by going into HH or school nursing! Frankly, they seem like some seriously tough gigs and require excellent solo abilities....something that most of the people who are struggling with in acute care settings wouldn't excel in. Kudos to you! :)
It tends to be repeated around this forum that if someone has difficulty keeping up with the workload in acute care, or doesn't like the work that is associated with direct patient care in a hospital setting, that a better choice is home health or school nursing.
I haven't done either, but I have friends/colleagues who work in both fields and there is NOTHING about what they describe that would make me think that someone who is failing /not surviving well in med-surg would instantly find themselves in nirvana by going into HH or school nursing! Frankly, they seem like some seriously tough gigs and require excellent solo abilities....something that most of the people who are struggling with in acute care settings wouldn't excel in. Kudos to you! :)
THANK YOU!
HH is a slower setting and that is less pressure in of itself, but there are still many who struggle for the same reasons.
HH should be looked at as a career, and the quality would go up all around if it were, instead of Plan B.
It tends to be repeated around this forum that if someone has difficulty keeping up with the workload in acute care, or doesn't like the work that is associated with direct patient care in a hospital setting, that a better choice is home health or school nursing.
Or psych nursing. That one always really makes me grind my teeth.
Or psych nursing. That one always really makes me grind my teeth.
Oh yes, that one too. As in "I don't like to deal with hygiene issues" and someone will invariably tell them to go into Psych. As if a psych patient ISN'T EVER going to lob something delicious at them....
HH is a slower setting and that is less pressure in of itself, but there are still many who struggle for the same reasons.
HH should be looked at as a career, and the quality would go up all around if it were, instead of Plan B.
You're welcome :)
I was also thinking that while HH is a 1:1 situation, there aren't call bells going off, that doesn't mean there's less of a time pressure. You have to be in and out in a specified time....have to be out on time to get to your next appointment....and have to accomplish X, XX, and XXX tasks before you go. Can't come back in an hour. Can't ask someone else to handle X while you handle XX. Like that.
Anyway, I think there is a tendency to think that our OWN specialties are the toughest, while the ones everyone ELSE does is easier, LOL....or at least it sure LOOKS that way sometimes when reading on AN!
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
You're welcome :)
I was also thinking that while HH is a 1:1 situation, there aren't call bells going off, that doesn't mean there's less of a time pressure. You have to be in and out in a specified time....have to be out on time to get to your next appointment....and have to accomplish X, XX, and XXX tasks before you go. Can't come back in an hour. Can't ask someone else to handle X while you handle XX. Like that.
Anyway, I think there is a tendency to think that our OWN specialties are the toughest, while the ones everyone ELSE does is easier, LOL....or at least it sure LOOKS that way sometimes when reading on AN!
Oh no! I think my specialty is the most FUN. Hardest? No way! That would be home health, where you're alone in someone else's environment with no one to call and say "Hey, could you take a look at this?" Or nursery. With all those babies screaming! Or maybe peds, where the parents are our patients, too, and some of them PUT the child in the hospital. Psych would be extremely difficult -- it's hard enough dealing with one manic or schizophrenic patient at a time, even when they're sort of slowed down by that big incision and all those tubes. I cannot imagine a whole room full of them, all unencumbered and all.
What *I* do is easiest -- everyone else has it way too tough!
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Excuse me, Ruby, but I beg to differ. Last night I had a private duty shift with a 98 y.o. woman in her own apt. at a retirement center. She is still ambulatory with a walker, a little confused sometimes, but mostly an absolute delight.
Last night she went to bed at 9 PM and I watched old movies on TCM (which I love). She got up at 4:30 AM to pee, and that was my entire 12 hour shift. Some would find that exceptionally boring, but, honey, I paid my dues in the hospitals as a float, LTC's which were nicer to work in when they were just called Nursing Homes, and Home Health (which was my favorite.) I am about to turn 66. I'm coasting, and I don't mind who knows it!
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Excuse me, Ruby, but I beg to differ. Last night I had a private duty shift with a 98 y.o. woman in her own apt. at a retirement center. She is still ambulatory with a walker, a little confused sometimes, but mostly an absolute delight.
Last night she went to bed at 9 PM and I watched old movies on TCM (which I love). She got up at 4:30 AM to pee, and that was my entire 12 hour shift. Some would find that exceptionally boring, but, honey, I paid my dues in the hospitals as a float, LTC's which were nicer to work in when they were just called Nursing Homes, and Home Health (which was my favorite.) I am about to turn 66. I'm coasting, and I don't mind who knows it!
I've had many say I make my job look easy, and for me much of it is easy though I have my hard days and challenges like anyone else. The reason why I might make it look easy is that I've done it forever and grown with it. I approached it as a career and there's so much of it that I still love. I wouldn't do the paperwork without being paid LOL but much of the patient care, if I could pick my own hours and didn't need to make a living, I would do it for pleasure.
They say you either love or hate home health and I think there's a lot of truth to that.
OVerall I was hoping to find some constructive responses to help me find somethign else besides bedside nursing. I see that there is nothing else. I pretty much have the answer.
This is sooooooo funny. Fact is, being a good BEDSIDE nurse will help strengthen your nursing no matter what kind of nurse you want to be. Try it... struggle through it... hate it... then learn from it. I did and i'm glad I did med surg before moving into the ETC.
The original post contained the phrase, "running around like a chicken with your head cutoff", and yet, you, and the majority of the people chose to ignore that. This is either intentional, due to your agendas, or due to low reading comprehensions. I love women and consider myself a feminist, but thanks. You again, are missing the point, women are told to be submissive and go along to get along. Which most women seem to fine with, when it comes to administration and management, but on here and with your co-workers your attitude and tone is very typical.
You talk about most women being fine with being told they need to be submissive. But then you tell RubyVee that her tone, which is has nothing submissive about it, is "typical." Well, which is it?
There's nothing feminist about making insulting generalizations about women.
Ruby Vee, BSN
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And your point is?
My reading comprehension is just fine, and my "agenda" is anti-misogyny and pro-nursing. If you wrote the twaddle that I quoted, you are not a feminist; you're a misogynist. "Loving women" doesn't make you a feminist.
I'm not sure what your country of origin might be, but in the United States women who are told to be submissive and to "go along to get along" might just up and display a back bone.