ya for me.. as i have mentioned in the past i am a nursing student.. its over nights at a retirement center.. not my first choice but i dont care its a foot in the door.. i will be working as a nursing assistant until i am done.. its a start... bout farrgin time......lol
chris b
Congrats. While starting at the bottom, it's paying your dues and moving on up.
Congrats! I seem to remember hearing here in town there was a nursing position open and like 600 people applied.
I remember there was a pretty big shortage of nurses a few years ago. I guess that word got out and recently I heard there is a rather large glut of nurses now.
Of course, now that there are too many, fewer will be going to school for it and there will probably be another shortage in the future. Boom and bust nurse economy.
I've heard some friends who nurses or MD's that the nursing jobs are all out in gas country, like everything else.
Congrats. Expect to be treated like slug slime for no pay. Nursing homes suck. They serve a purpose, albeit rather E36 M3tily. No matter what, people are people and you are in charge of their care, respect them even though you will find them to be demanding and demeaning towards you.
Ranger50 wrote: Congrats. Expect to be treated like slug slime for no pay. Nursing homes suck. They serve a purpose, albeit rather E36 M3tily. No matter what, people are people and you are in charge of their care, respect them even though you will find them to be demanding and demeaning towards you.
its all for experience right now.. then 6 months or so down the road start applying at hospitals.. eventually want to work in an ICU or PACU.... the cool thing is werei got hired is that i did some clinical stuff there... its not to bad a place, and i will be working overnights..
BARNCA wrote: at a retirement center..
Congrats on the new digs. My wife is a funeral director, and we live roughly in your neck of the woods, perhaps you two will meet sometime.
Nursing is one of the few careers where you literally have to start at the bottom and still pay your dues. Glad to hear you've gotten started.
Awesome man, getting your foot in the door is the start of good things.
BARNCA wrote:Ranger50 wrote: Congrats. Expect to be treated like slug slime for no pay. Nursing homes suck. They serve a purpose, albeit rather E36 M3tily. No matter what, people are people and you are in charge of their care, respect them even though you will find them to be demanding and demeaning towards you.its all for experience right now.. then 6 months or so down the road start applying at hospitals.. eventually want to work in an ICU or PACU.... the cool thing is werei got hired is that i did some clinical stuff there... its not to bad a place, and i will be working overnights..
I think I am going to suck it up and for the first year just live with the E36 M3 job on a med/surg floor then transfer down into the depths of trauma hell in the ER.
Of the clinical sites I have already been to, IF I was to wreck in front of them, I would demand to be taken somewhere else.....
ValuePack wrote:BARNCA wrote: at a retirement center..Congrats on the new digs. My wife is a funeral director, and we live roughly in your neck of the woods, perhaps you two will meet sometime.
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Wally wrote: I knew of some body shops that would throw tow trucks a couple bucks for bringing them work. Just putting it out there
Wally: you rule. That is all.
A hospital in my area boarders on a cemetery…I always thought they should install one of these and have the nurses play one of those Kazoo things when they send someone down.
Joking aside, congratulations BARNCA.
Count me in on this thread!
Just got the call this afternoon that a company I interviewed with is sending an offer letter.
I graduated college last May, finished up a (severely underpaid) internship in August, been hunting since.
Such a relief has not been felt in a long time.
^Congrats to both of you!
congratulation to apex carver.
Congrats to both of you! There has to be a good something going around. I received a phone call today on something that's been in the works for a while...
Doing the nursing assistant thing will help once you're an RN. Looks good on paper, and it's certainly great experience to build upon.
As far as starting on med-surg, why not just jump right in to the ER? I'd say most of the new hires in the ER here are new grads, though most do wash out quickly. The ones that stick it out are really great in hairy situations though.
Congrats on your job.
I started out as an aide, I am now a ED/trauma RN and am putting in my time and learning so I can hopefully fly on med-evac choppers in the future.
As for your aide job, it is worth repeating, try to remember these people are humans. Someones mom or dad, someones child. They will treat you like poo, try to smile and think of your reward in heaven, or karma if your into that. Nursing homes are the pit of healthcare, and you as an aide are at the bottom of it all. It will suck, there is no way around it, most likely you will work with staff who have zero respect for human life and are miserable in their positions, try not to let them rub off on you.
Do work hard, not because you want a foot in the door for this nursing home (you won't after you work there for a while), but because you will want to put your nursing supervisor as a reference for your first RN job. You will learn lots too! I found nursing school was easier when I was working as an aide because I could see and apply what I was learning first hand.
Lastly, get black out curtains. Your sleep quality will improve if you are third shift.
Good luck! 
bastomatic wrote: As far as starting on med-surg, why not just jump right in to the ER? I'd say most of the new hires in the ER here are new grads, though most do wash out quickly. The ones that stick it out are really great in hairy situations though.
I am thinking of using the med/surg experience to further round out the missing skills that aren't taught in school or maybe skills that need a polishing. Plus the overall-ness of working with so many varied cases and patients makes you a better nurse. Just like if you got a job in Cardiac ICU straight out of school, then you transfer over to Oncology then into where ever, how many skills are you going to lose since coming from school?
Wow, good job karma all around. Congrats guys!
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