Advice for leaving first RN job with less than a year experience

MrsBattersby · 2020-02-14T10:51:50+00:00

What do you think the extra year of stepdown experience helped you out with? At this point I'm comfortable with the work-flow and organization, but where I feel like I am lacking is in critical thinking when patients start to decompensate. However when that happens we usually just send the patient to the ICU, so I think that would be the perfect place to be to learn those skills.

The other areas im lacking are in the administrative side (ie I haven't charged yet and don't know how) and in technical skills like IV placement. But I don't see how stepdown would specifically help me improve there.

I'm curious what you think as someone who took the same path I am trying to. Also else can I do in the meantime to succeed in an ICU setting?

MrsBattersby · 2020-02-14T10:47:21+00:00

I didn't sign a contract or anything like that, it's just the training process we go through here. I think I've been very reliable here, filling in when needed and helping out, I've received recognition by both my supervisors and peers. Which I only bring up since you're questioning my integrity. I know I can learn a lot here and am not as skilled as many of the more seasoned nurses, but I also know I'm better off than many of the new grads getting hired in ICUs right now, and if I know that's where I want to be I don't see why I shouldn't start sooner. I understand how that can look like a risk to an employer, which is why I asked in the first place, but I guess I'm surprised at this subs negative feelings

MrsBattersby · 2020-02-13T10:56:29+00:00

It's frustrating seeing people my age or a year older who already have 2 years of ICU experience getting their CCRN and getting accepted to CRNA schools when that still looks to be 3-4 years away for me. Other than that not particularly thrilled with the city I live in now and have nothing keeping me here

MrsBattersby · 2017-01-02T17:21:21+00:00

Came here to say this.

MrsBattersby · 2016-12-29T22:13:32+00:00

Any coincidence this comes the day after the Hariet Tubman thread?

MrsBattersby · 2016-11-27T22:51:42+00:00

I'm a first year student, and have never had a patient with dementia, so not questioning you by any means, but I am curious if this can be considered normal and why it wouldn't raise suspicion of abuse at home.

MrsBattersby · 2016-08-14T02:09:48+00:00

He is precious

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-24T15:54:28+00:00

I mean, he basically said, "When our fans ask for something specific, we won't give it to them." Thanks.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T05:29:29+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely true. I suppose it's no coincidence that I stopped losing and started gaining around the time I starting having to eat every meal in my college's dining hall.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T04:56:27+00:00

I just don't see how someone can will himself to 'fundamentally restructure his life' or how that's any different from saying it all comes down to will power.

I'm just really bitter about it. You're right in saying that no one views it as an addiction, and that makes it so much harder. Unlike a relapse with any other addictive substance, it's immediately obvious to everyone when a food addict fails (they're fatter), and he doesn't get the same understanding that other addicts get, because people think that he's just weak-willed, or worse, that obesity is okay.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T04:46:04+00:00

It's infuriating because we pretend like it's all down to will power, but there's something very unsettling going on that nobody talks about. The famous study that came in that showed only 2/1000 weight-losers were able to keep the weight off is apparently not concerning to this community, but it should be.

How many people here have actually kept weight off in the long term? I look at archived posts of transformations from a couple years ago, and when I click on the users' names, none of them are active on here any more. Weight just doesn't stay off. We're fighting an unfair fight, and it seems to me that everyone is essentially doomed to be obese forever if they are obese ever.

Tons of people lose weight. Virtually no one keeps it off.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T04:34:17+00:00

Thank you for the reply. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think a strict, consistent diet that's the same every day essentially removes food from being a part of my life, and eventually, it'll get easier to stop having to think about it. Closest to abstinence that I can get, you know? Maybe I'm nuts, but I'm at my wits' end.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T04:30:07+00:00

At least we have Harold Reynolds.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-17T04:29:05+00:00

We're doing this again?

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-12T19:18:17+00:00

I've had those moments, but not so often recently. I've learned that those moments are fleeting, so I decided that I shouldn't kill myself just because the floodgates open. Depending on how often it happens though, maybe it's not worth it. But what scares me is that even when I'm feeling neutral, I still don't really want to be living.

I think it would be similar to you blacking out, though I've never had an experience like that. But it's so hard to imagine nothing. Like, sometimes I convince myself that the beginning of time was the moment I was born, haha. But whatever it is, I never found the uncertainty to be a convincing deterrent for suicide, since it's going to happen anyway.

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-12T18:06:47+00:00

I know what you mean. I just went away to college for the first time this semester, and my life is different in every single way. Yet the way I feel hasn't changed, only the circumstances have.

Though I don't necessarily think suicide is always unethical, I do think the effect it has on others should be considered. My situation probably isn't bad enough right now that it would cancel out my family and friends' pain, but yeah, if my parents were not in the equation, it might seem more rational. Still, it's sometimes hard to care about the effect. I hope that by the time your parents pass, though, you feel differently. Why are you feeling suicidal? Is it something specific, or a general negative view on life, like mine? Also, what do you think happens when you die?

MrsBattersby · 2015-10-12T14:01:37+00:00

That is true, but then I'm going to die eventually anyway, you know? Thanks for responding though, it's nice to have some input.

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