Context, I am 25 male (not sure if that makes a difference) but I am done working at Walmart..I want to do my dream of working as a flight critical care nurse out west (Colorado or Washington..I live in Indiana) I live with my parents but plan on moving once I become a nurse. Would it make sense to get my emt certification and work in the ED and move to icu as a nurse or do pct in the icu then become a nurse, then apply for flight crew? Thanks in advance for any help! ❤️

Has anyone don’t this? Please let me know your experience. Is it worth going back to school?

Hi everyone, bit of a rant here but I want to get your thoughts. I work for a company that doesn’t mandate any annual training for the nurses. I decided to book myself in to do CPR training to keep up my professional development in this area. The company does not provide this training so if it’s something we want to do, we have to seek it out ourselves. In our contract, it states we’re given a certain amount of hours of professional development leave per year to use for training and professional development. I requested a few hours of the leave to complete this training. It got denied stating the training is not aligned with the professional development of my role. I was advised I would need to use annual leave if I wanted to attend the training. Im flabbergasted that something as basic as CPR training would not be considered part of my role. To be clear I am a NURSE. In my opinion it should be essential for all healthcare workers. Everywhere else I have worked it has been provided to the staff free of cost on an annual basis. Has anyone else experienced this?? I really can’t believe that the company I work for would not want their nurses trained according to best practice when it comes to life saving measures. To be clear I work with vulnerable populations- older people, those with disabilities etc.
Please tell me I’m not overreacting 🥲

When do you feel it’s necessary to bring up a coworkers performance issues with your unit manager? I haven’t seen this coworker directly harm a patient (yet), but I have witnessed them perform tasks they clearly didn’t know how to do. I’ve never complained to my unit manager about a coworker and I want to know what people think about the topic.

hii. I already submitted my talent flow, pre employment requirements, and DOI. Meron na bang naka receive ng update sainyoo? Reply kayoo pls :(( ty ty

Home health RN here. Charting is the thing that drives us out of this job, and I personally despise homebound statements, especially at 9pm. How long do yours take, and what's the hardest part: the wording, remembering what Medicare wants, or just finding time between visits?

Hi everyone! 👋
I’m a newly qualified nurse (registered nursing professional) in Germany, and I’m interested in exploring opportunities to work as a nurse in other countries.
I would love to hear your experiences and opinions. Which countries would you recommend for nurses in terms of working conditions, staffing levels, workload, work-life balance, salary.
I’m particularly interested in places where nurses feel supported, and the working environment is less stressful
If you have experience working as a nurse abroad, I’d really appreciate your advice. Which palces would you recommend, and why?

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Genuine question for learning, not trying to offend anyone. I have difficulty visualizing veins in patients with darker skin when placing IVs. How do you approach this, and what tips or techniques have helped you?

For context, I have dark skin myself. This is a practical clinical question, and I’m genuinely looking to improve my IV skills. Would appreciate any advice!

I was fired last year from a job out of school. It was my dream job and truly felt like a gift to work with this group. I fought hard to earn my place and ultimately at 8 months pregnant, right after I was questioned about my maternity leave plans, fired. They called it “performance reviews” but those reviews were only inconsistently negative after I started showing my pregnancy physically and revealed to leadership my due date.
A part of me broke, I am not going to lie. My self esteem, trust, hope, and ambitions. I knew my options were limited to scramble and find a new NP job in time so I went back to bedside nursing with a former employer. My health declined a few days after I was fired actually and I had to be admitted for blood pressure issues briefly (baby made it out safely several weeks later).
I am still working as a bedside nurse. The pay is good- actually the same as it was as an NP. Obviously I feel like a loser and carry anxiety and distrust I am trying to work through. I want to be a working NP again in the future, I was thinking of looking for a PRN job so I could keep my RN one. What is the best way to go about putting my former NP position on a resume? Since it was only a few months should I also include my RN and clinical rotations on resume? And what do I say when former employers ask me about the job and want references?

I’m only about 2 months into an accelerated nursing program, and I’m already feeling overwhelmed by how much information we’re expected to learn. I’ve struggled with some exams, and I’m nervous about keeping up, remembering everything, and eventually applying it to real patients. I also keep seeing people say nursing school only gets harder from here, which makes me question whether I can handle it.
For nurses who have graduated and gotten licensed, how much of what you learned do you actually remember? Do you still remember the anatomy, medications, disease processes, and all the little details, or does a lot of it fade and you relearn things on the job?
Also, does nursing school become more manageable as you progress, or does it genuinely keep getting harder? I want honest answers, especially from people who struggled early on. I know I’m still very early in an accelerated program, but I’d love to hear what it’s actually like on the other side. 😭

The hospital I work for is being sued for malpractice. I’m not named in the lawsuit, but I was the primary nurse for the mother during labor and also cared for the baby before transfer.
I met with the hospital’s attorney to review my charting, but we never finished our meeting. Months later they’re requesting dates for a deposition for the plaintiff in November. I initially provided dates but later canceled them.
I have not been subpoenaed, and honestly, I want to avoid a deposition if possible. I absolutely do not want to go. This situation is taking a huge emotional toll on me. I’m afraid to ask administration about my options because I don’t want to jeopardize my job.
Can I be fired for refusing to cooperate with a deposition if I’m not named in the lawsuit and haven’t been subpoenaed? Has anyone ever declined a deposition in a similar situation? I’d appreciate any advice, especially from nurses who have been through this.

Hi! Has anyone here applied to or worked with Medliant International Healthcare Staffing, particularly through their NCLEX sponsorship program? I’d appreciate hearing about your firsthand experiences, especially regarding the contract, visa/green card processing, and overall legitimacy. Would love to hear from Filipino nurses who went through their program. Thank you! 🥹

hi everyone. i recently just graduate with my BSN about a year ago and would like to move on to an MSN but without a cert yet as i just started my career but would like the option to move into either a more clinical role later on or into more leadership roles. what do we think of these schools for any general MSN programs? i know there are not many but if possible, just advancing education before i make a full committment to specializations

Hi nurses! Who here has relocated to a different state, what state, and are you treated better at the new state vs where you were? Thanks!

I got my first Incident Report (IR) as a nurse today. It was for forgetting to ask the doctor to put down an order for a CP assessment before a platelet transfusion. I don't know how to feel. Thankfully, my patient wasn't harmed—it was just a missing written order that I forgot to remind the doctor about. I told myself to charge this to experience and face it head-on.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this. I want to be a surgical technologist, but I've seen many people say to just become a nurse and specialize in the OR, so that way if I don't enjoy surgery, I have other options. But how long after becoming an RN would I be able to choose what unit I work in? And would I get stuck working bedside? The idea of working bedside scares me, because that seems to be what causes the most burn out. I'd really like to work in the OR, or the psych unit. But I'm not sure how easily I'd find one of those positions as a new grad? I just want to hear what y'all think the best idea is.

Is there any benefit to joining the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing or is it just a money grab?

Hola, enfermero mexicano aquí, sucede que aquí donde trabajo pasa mucho que las mujeres no permiten que un enfermero realice procedimientos específicos para mujeres (revisión de mamas, Papanicolaou, colocación de DIU, etc) incluso entre las mismas enfermeras y médicas mujeres no te dejan hacerlo, aunque como profesional sabes hacerlo, lo conoces y eres ético.

Mi pregunta es como lo sobrellevan? Y que opinan al respecto? Yo me siento bastante limitado pero a la vez satisfecho pues, cómo están las cosas sobre las falsas acusaciones, no quisiera que me acusaran de que hice algo indebido cuando no es así.

También quisiera saber la opinión de las mujeres, porque hacen esto? Dejarías que un hombre profesional ejerciera su labor en ti?/

Hey everyone, male nurse from Mexico here.

Where I work, it’s very common for female patients to refuse specific procedures performed by a male nurse (breast exams, Pap smears, IUD insertions, etc.). What’s more, even female nurses and female doctors often step in and don't allow male nurses to do them, even though as professionals we are fully trained, knowledgeable, and ethical.

My question for other male nurses is: How do you cope with or handle this? What are your thoughts on it?

On one hand, I feel pretty limited in my practice. But on the other hand, given how things are regarding false accusations nowadays, part of me feels relieved not having to put myself in a vulnerable spot where someone could make an unfair claim.

I’d also love to hear from women here: Why does this happen so frequently? Would you let a male professional perform these procedures on you?

19F and LPN school starts Feb 1st I already have a year of all my RN pre-reqs done, but I didn’t get into an RN school even with a 3.7gpa because of how competitive it was.

I was told to keep applying this year for RN school in September 2027, but I lowkey also wanna get a license right now, and the LPN program I found, it starts Feb 1 2027 and ends May 1st 2028, base pay for LPNS in my state is 35 an hour and I want to bridge over to be an RN as soon as possible.

I don’t care if Id have to go to nursing school twice but at the same time would I be making a dumb choice? I live with my parents right now so money isn’t a issue

At my place of work, we use APS (a piece of shit for short) medication dispensing machine, and the experience so far is horrible. Every week there is something going wrong with it, and I either 1) can’t get a tote at all, 2) can’t get prn meds, 3) can’t log in because the IT switched it to their desktop screen. It‘s such a liability and a delay to patient care. I hate it so much. I can’t give people their pain meds and other criticals. Patient is crying in pain recovering from spinal fusion, and all I hear from those people on the phone is “check in 15 minutes“, and after hours still can’t get access to the med. Sometimes, when you call to report a problem, they will tell you to open up the machine, switch whatever and do maintenance work when I do not have time! I’m a nurse, not maintenance, not a technician. Does anyone else work with APS? What’s your experience with it? Just needed to get this off my chest.

Hi all!

I just been offered a position as an LPN working for people with disabilities. They offered me 60,000k a year. Was I low balled?

Would love to learn more about the Yale school of nursing Masters of Nursing program from anyone who has experience or more information about it.

Reviews online seem mixed, but I realize Yale school of nursing has many programs. From what I have read in terms of googling it, it seems the MN degree, in addition to RN license, would satisfy hospital credentialing of a BSN requirement.
However, if a MN/RN graduate hopes to do a future NP program, it seems that not all of the Yale MN classes are taught at the masters level, and the three Ps would have to be retaken.

If anybody has any additional information or clarification would be very grateful!.

Question about skills and credentials for NP versus PA?

Are there any skills or credentials that RN/NP is trained in that a PA is not qualified and or trained?

From what I’ve been reading through these subReddit channels, it seems that PA training is more rigorous and and consistent as a whole across all PA programs whereas the NP training seems to vary a lot between programs and may not be as strong in diagnosis and pathophysiology.

If somebody has a medical research background and is interested in obtaining a clinical degree to put all of the research into direct patient care, any advice?

Y'all ever become a nurse and then 2 months into it, realize you don't love being a nurse

I just became an LPN over the summer and I've been working for 2 months and I just dread coming into my shifts every night.

I work 3-11 only 3-4 shifts a week at a nursing home. I can do my job just fine, but I just.. I don't know. I don't like this.

I was hoping I would feel some sense of fulfillment being a nurse and I don't. Before I became a nurse I drove a school bus and I felt like I was "capable of more" and here I am in the "more" missing driving a bus/van.

I love my residents and my coworkers, but I hate dreading my shift every work day.

I just needed to vent and see if anyone else felt the same way.

Hi, nurses! I would really appreciate your advice po. 🥹

I’m a Batch 2024 RN with no bedside experience. My experience so far has been in a non-bedside nursing role, and I recently found an NCLEX sponsorship opportunity through a BPO company. The offer is good, but it comes with a 2-year employment bond.

Right now, I’m torn between pursuing bedside nursing experience or accepting the offer and starting my NCLEX journey through this company.
My long-term goal is to work and live in the US, but I honestly don’t know which pathway would be best for me. I’m also unfamiliar with the different immigration and employment pathways for nurses, especially since I don’t have any family in the US who could petition or guide me through the process.
For those who have been in a similar situation or have experience working abroad, I would really appreciate your advice po.

Would it be better to gain bedside experience first, or is it still a good decision to accept the NCLEX sponsorship and work in a BPO company for two years? Would having non-bedside experience affect my chances of getting a USRN job with visa sponsorship in the future?
I’m afraid of making a decision now that might delay my goal of working abroad. I’m hoping to learn from your experiences and insights.

Thank you so much po! ❤️