u/sexynessybaby

Hi so i’m struggling rn . i’m a new grad nurse and Laser Away gave me an offer . I have 1 day to respond . Good pay good benefits but it’s working every single weekend so work life balance would be hard .
I also read that they don’t immediately train you in Botox or filler, that it takes about a year and this is because they know nurses will get in and get out once trained.

in the other hand i have a mobile nurse injector who’s been in the industry for 15 years . she believes in me and offered to train me and offered clients to practice on. I would be working under a medical director so i would be paying for insurance etc and everything and all costs. i could post n social media and try to work my way up that way. dont know if it’ll be hard being mobile and building trust though.

but then also i have an interview for a hospital position next week with a nurse basically going to get me the job in the OR most likely … but what if i never did the hospital job and did bad in aesthetics and now i have nothing to lean back on?

i’m truthfully struggling rn and don’t have a lot of time to make a decision…

Hi so i’m struggling rn . i’m a new grad nurse and Laser Away gave me an offer . I have 1 day to respond . Good pay good benefits but it’s working every single weekend so work life balance would be hard .
I also read that they don’t immediately train you in Botox or filler, that it takes about a year and this is because they know nurses will get in and get out once trained.

in the other hand i have a mobile nurse injector who’s been in the industry for 15 years . she believes in me and offered to train me and offered clients to practice on. I would be working under a medical director so i would be paying for insurance etc and everything and all costs.

but then also i have an interview for a hospital position next week and what if i never didn’t hospital job and did bad in aesthetics and now i have nothing to lean back on?

i’m truthfully struggling rn and don’t have a lot of time to make a decision…

honestly don’t know what to do right now and need outside opinions.
I’m a new grad RN currently working at a small outpatient place making pretty shitty pay and only working 1 day a week. The nurse training me is officially leaving next week and then basically I’m the only nurse left there. I already know if I leave they’re gonna be pissed because they relied on me staying after training.
But I just got offered a job at LaserAway for $60/hr ($65 weekends) with benefits. The issue is I’m also pretty likely to get into Hospital new grad program that starts in August.
So now I’m stuck between:
staying loyal to my current job and barely making money while waiting for Memorial
or
taking the LaserAway job, making way better money + getting aesthetics experience for 2 months, then eventually leaving if I get into the hospital position
Long term I think I want aesthetics as a side thing eventually, but I also know hospital experience is important. I also have a nurse willing to train me in mobile injections later on too.
I just feel guilty because my current job is already short staffed and the timing is awful, but at the same time I feel stupid turning down $60/hr when Memorial isn’t officially guaranteed yet.

I have 1 day to Respond to Laser Away….
Starts June 1st cuz i said i would need 2 weeks to quit my other job lol

i’m a new grad nurse working at an outpatient surgery center and honestly idk if im overreacting or if this situation is actually kinda unfair/stressful.

basically they hired me and trained me for the OR, but it’s literally only like 1 day a week most weeks because the hours/pay kinda suck and nobody really wants to work there. one of the main nurses training me is leaving next week so now i’m basically the only nurse left for these shifts.

today after work the nurse training me pulled me aside and was like she’s noticed i’ve been consistently missing little things like phaco time documentation, forgetting who was in the room once, not always paying attention to every tool/device being used during surgery cases, needing to know anesthesia’s whole cart plus my own stuff so i can anticipate what they need, etc. she also brought up that i’m on my phone sometimes even though she literally told me before that if my work is done it’s okay to check it. i never go on my phone if my work isn’t done. she proceeded to say this is a senior nurse thing to do, not me. and she said after shifts i leave really fast instead of staying and learning devices more or studying the equipment.

then she hit me with “i don’t know how interested or committed you are to this” and basically said i need to be way more on top of things because once she leaves im the only one.

the thing is… i’ve literally only been on my own like 4 times total. i AM trying. there’s just SO much to learn and because i only work there like once a week it’s hard for stuff to become second nature yet.

then i asked if they were training anyone else and she said no, im the only one. then she basically said if i plan on looking for something else i need to let them know.

and now i feel guilty because i do have an interview next week for a new grad program somewhere else (they don’t know it’s an interview). but also part of me lowkey wants to leave because this whole thing feels like they’re depending on a brand new nurse to basically hold together OR staffing after barely training me.

also i told them three weeks in advance that i have a “drs. appt” (my interview), on May 21st she texted me yesterday and mentioned today she has no one else to cover the shift and wants me to come in still . i’m like wtf dude. how am i supposed to even ever leave this place if they are relying on me and solely me?

also now i feel awkward as fuck there because i can tell the vibes have been changing with me and i feel like everyone thinks im incompetent or not committed even though i genuinely am trying my best. and i told her that i was trying me best and that there’s a lot to learn.

am i being too sensitive here or does this sound like a rough setup for a new grad? also what do i do about me wanting a new job ?

Hi so i completed the phone interview today with Laser Away and I have the video interview on thursday. What kind of questions do they ask for the second one ? Im extremely nervous as I do not do well in interviews in general

feel like I’m a record on repeat because I might have asked this before in this thread. I’m confused on where I want to start as a new grad nurse. I really am interested in getting into aesthetics. I have a nurse that is willing to train me and teach me and possibly just move on and go on my own from there in aesthetic nirsing.
But on the other hand, I also have a preoperative nurse who got me an interview into a trauma hospital and basically has put in words for me to get this perioperative position in the OR. I only really was interested in the OR in nursing school because if I told my nursing school that I was interested in in aesthetics, they wouldve laughed at me so I was like OK. Why don’t I just choose OR for my preceptorship lol.
Anyways fast forward to now I’m three months post getting my license and I have these two career paths just standing in front of me and I don’t know which one to take.
I get that the OR has stability and obviously room for growth and different career paths that I could take in the future, but I’m not 100% into it. I shadowed today in the OR and it’s very high stakes, high acuity, patients, and just a lot of pressure. The program is one year long. It’s five days a week studying and you have to take a test as well and you have to pass that test after 16 weeks of being in the training program. Since it is a trauma hospital, you know it’s very pressurized environment and if you don’t even know all the supplies, then the surgeon is probably gonna be pissed at you lol

But then with aesthetic nirsing, if I were to get into it and really put my all into it, then I could potentially have a good career and clientele .

There is pros and cons of both and I just don’t know what to do anymore. I almost feel like I need a career coach, but I don’t have one and I feel like my career coach could be this thread of nurses who could help me out..

so at my local hospital, i got in because the periop educator basically got me an interview . I’m really bad at interviews so i was overall nervous in general for a 7 panel.
Turns to find out they are changing the format .

Format:
Multiple tables consisting of 3-4 managers from each unit. We go in one at a time, starting at med surg table, interviewing with them for 15 minutes, then next table L&D, then next table OR, then next table Ortho, next ER, Next ICU, next cardiac.
What the actual F*ck!?!?
I have never ever heard of this and it seems actually insane to have to interview like 7 different times with different units to see if you’re a good fit for any unit.
You don’t have an option to pick one unit and one unit only you are required to go to every freaking table.

Has anyone experienced this? I’m scared i’m nervous i don’t even know what to do at this point . I don’t even know if i want to work in the OR after all the educators pull in getting me an interview and all my instructors putting in a good work for me.
Idk what to do with this career and i get it yes this a good opportunity for a new grad i understand . But being already bad at interviews then having to do this is like putting myself into an embarrassment room.

so i originally got into nursing to do aesthetics. fast forward to nursing school, i got introduced to the OR and was interested in it and didn’t think it was too bad working in the hospital.

after nursing school i kinda got turned off by aesthetics because the pay is ass and a lot of med spas turned me down anyways .

i have a periop educator at a trauma hospital near me who said she will get me in for an interview to the OR if i am interested . she would be the interviewer along with 6 others .

for one : im horrible at interviews and i already know ill embarass not only myself, but her for putting in a good word for me . no matter how much i practice i fucking suck, i lock up, i shake, and say words that aren’t english

for two: i don’t know if i will like it . OR nursing i feel like can be pretty brutal in terms of being new and also jus surgeons being rude . i feel like in the OR you have to know over 300 pieces of equipment and if you don’t then you’re a bad nurse (is what i was told by a circulator RN)

i never liked the hospital environment but thought OR might be better but now im second guessing .

3: my family will be extremely mad at me if i don’t do the interview . they know its good pay and good benefits and its basically a way in. they’re extremely upset and mad at me even my grandma texted me saying i better do this interview .

idk what to do . i would love to get benefits and make money of course but i don’t wanna stress myself out in an environment like the OR in all honesty when im not sure if ill even like it . I’m just nervous and scared and idk what to do with this career anymore because I feel like i dont even like anything at this point and just want something chill that also makes money, but i know thats not possible as a new grad if i don’t do med surg first .

what do i do?! ugh i could cry