Vasoactive drips

[Momma1RN]

I work at a small community hospital on their "telemetry" floor, but we do no drips at all. Anyone requiring a drip goes to our ICU. Yesterday, I interviewed for a per diem position at a bigger hospital on their telemetry floor, but unfortunately I am too inexperienced because I've never had experience with drips. We are moving from this area in a year so unfortunately I'm not considering making the move to this bigger hospital even though there are positions available and the manager seemed willing to take me on and orient me in a full time capacity (4 month orientation). So I guess my question is - is it normal for a telemetry floor to not have drips? Or to have them? I'm sure it's because I'm at a small community hospital without a large cardiac program. Just curious what other peoples' experiences have been. Thanks!

[BecomingNursey]

My husband is military so although there is a chance we could stay longer, we are most likely going to be leaving next June/july. I really would like the experience. From a managers perspective, though, training someone for 4 months for them to leave 7 months later kind of sucks, doesn't it? I mean I guess it happens and I should probably look out for my own best interests for my career, I'm just not wanting a potentially terrible reference when I leave here.

The answer is right there in your post OP :). Your husband is military! Did the manager that you spoke with know this? Most of the time, if you're upfront with an employer about the military status of your family they don't mind working with you and helping you grow in your career. And if they know about the military part they expect for you to leave. A floor that I used to work on as a tech hired a lot of military wives and didn't mind training them and knew that they would be leaving. I'd just be upfront with them about it.

[Momma1RN, MSN, RN, APRN]

The answer is right there in your post OP :). Your husband is military! Did the manager that you spoke with know this? Most of the time, if you're upfront with an employer about the military status of your family they don't mind working with you and helping you grow in your career. And if they know about the military part they expect for you to leave. A floor that I used to work on as a tech hired a lot of military wives and didn't mind training them and knew that they would be leaving. I'd just be upfront with them about it.

I wish it were that simple! I guess it could be, but I've heard of more stories about being turned down when they're aware of military affiliation than the other way around. I'm still undecided. Even though it's the best thing for my career I am leaning toward staying in my current job because it's comfortable, and we have a lot of other things going on in our lives- changing jobs may just put us over the edge. Hopefully at our next station I can get into a a critical care unit since I want to go back to school for ACNP