How's it going...I've been doing homehealth and school nursing, I start Monday, I'm nervous

I will never understand why there continues to be a nursing shortage when they are pushing out nurses left and right in the schools around the country

@@yyysseee5370are you talking about pushing away nursing school applicants? Search the literature and you will that the issue stems from a lack of nursing faculty. If there is a no nurses to teach prospective nurses to be nurses, then they have to turn away nursing school applicants. One professor and clinical instructor can only teach a handful of students. We need to focus more on fixing that issue and the other issue will clear downstream. Take care

How long was your orientation?

​@serenityblue239 how is it going? Are you a lpn or rn

Thank you ❤️

You can go straight to the hospital with an ADN

@@astoldbymuriel103 now that I’m a second semester I know that 😂 I’ve been loving the hospital experience

Thank you

How are you now? I’m a new nurse in NY and idk where to work

And it’s sad because we are all educated. Why can’t everyone keep it professional 😩. Sorry to hear it’s short staffed. Seem like that’s the problem everywhere

@@rachela23 hello Us it better to work in hospital or LTC?? IM CONFUSED.... And what about paying differences??

Thanks babe ❤️

Take those breaks! Stay later if you need to, but never sacrifice your unpaid meal!

No problem. Good luck on your nclex. And I hope NJ long term care facilities aren’t as bad as NY

@@rachela23 girl, LTC's in NJ are hot mess as well. Every time we go for clinical there are always short staff, nurses complaining and pts not being taken care of.

I have no problem asking for my pen back lol. I’m the beginning I was so quiet and shy, but you can imagine this job changes you. I refuse to let another pen leave me lol

@@rachela23 It's crazy how fast you can forget yourself ,tho...especially in the midst of working. It happened to me a few times.

Thank you

I’ll be honest I think it would be overwhelming at first. But with anything after time you’ll be able to handle it. I recommend doing a floor position first (maybe ask wherever you work if you can train the floor first before going into supervisor role). The supervisors at my place either have easy days (no new admissions) so they just do computer work all day (or hardly work lol). Then there’s days where there’s so many new admissions, or if the floor is short they will shift you to do the floor. That’s all in addition to any IVs that need to be started, TPN’s to hang, etc. I know it may sound like a lot but no matter where you go, you will get the hang of it Also if your body can handle it. Night shifts are the best!

@@rachela23 Hey! Thank you. So is harder to work the floor as a RN?

Working the floor as an rn is exactly the same as an LPN but you get paid more. So it’s a win for you.

@@rachela23 over nights? Or second shifts ?

@@Nurseninjarider overnight

Congratulations 🎉

Muks or Dr. Scholl….absolutely love them & they’re so comfortable

In the long term care facility it depends your role. If you take supervisor you will be in charge for any emergencies or new admission but you will have nurses below you so you won’t be alone. If you are not supervising and take the floor nurse position. Then you alone will be with up to 40 patients, but will be able to call a supervisor if you need something. I’m not sure how it works in the hospital.

@@rachela23 could you please share the worst case scenario that you had while working in LTC?

Pls

Every admission is different in different facilities

At the time of the video I had 38-40 pts some days 18-20. Now I mostly never have more the 28, which still is a lot, but I manage. They only trained me for 3 days 😭😭. Thank goodness I’m resilient.

@@rachela23 how is it possible to have that many patients?!

Many of the nurses I know do doubles everyday at my facility. There are also others that work at the facility next door and they just walk over for the next shift. So it’s definitely possible, but say goodbye to your personal life & expect burnout

You won’t make it in time for the second job.

It’s better if you can do a double at the same facility bc you won’t get to the next job on time

From my experience it’s been one to one interviews. Hospital interviews are more likely to be panel.

The RN has the option to be a supervisor. If you go that route you will be doing the initial assessment of all new admissions, creating the care plan, communicating with the doctors and serving as support to the staff wherever needed. You also has the option to work the unit passing meds etc, which in this case your job will be identical to the LPN, but your pay is higher

@rachela23 my long term care facility make lpn do new admissions. So all long term facilities do not do that right? Sorry for all the questions, I'm a new lpn, only been working for a month

@@africanyvette2908 well as for new admissions at where I work, the lpn takes a set of initial vitals and can assist the RN in assessment but are not required to. So if your busy after the vitals you can go back to doing what you need to do. I can see how facilities would let the LPN do the entire new admission because they like to take advantage, but that first initial assessment is usually done by the RN. & it’s not because the LPN isn’t capable, but it’s just how the hierarchy works

@rachela23 thank you so much. I learned that in school, so I was shocked that they made me do a whole new assessment and the paper work.

30 in CA. That doesn’t sound right. It’s more in NY. And I always thought CA had better rates. Was that for staff or agency?

Yes I’m positive. And most cases it’s 1-28 for me. Other floors are 1-40. It is long term care, so the patients are much more stable then in the hospital

Do you work in hospital or nursing home in saudi?

@@rachela23 ive heard some are saying they handled 50-60 in night shift 😢

@@doremifasolatido-ro7zs , im in a hospital setting dear.

It's a LTC not medsurg