A part of me desperately wants to hang everything up and go, because I thrive in emergency settings and the need is clearly great. But I'm not going to go this time, for two reasons.
The selfish reason is that I was just offered a job, and the market is such that I'm in no position to be choosy- I know new grads who've been licensed for months and still haven't gotten a single interview, let alone an offer. If I left now I'd be coming home unemployed and broker than broke.
The unselfish (and more significant) reason is that as a brand-new RN I'm what's considered "competent for entry-level practice." I've got plenty of factual knowledge, and have proven myself educable by graduating nursing school, but I'm still pretty much useless till some nice preceptor takes me under their wing and pounds a few months of orientation and experience in to me. I am, sadly, not yet what's needed in the kind of chaos that Haiti is experiencing. They need skilled OR, ER, and critical care nurses, who can look at a patient and know how to triage them
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Thank you for posting this! I have personal issues with the Red Cross and last night read an article on CNN about Wyclef's foundation that didn't leave me feeling very comfortable. This is perfect...thanks!
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The selfish reason is that I was just offered a job, and the market is such that I'm in no position to be choosy- I know new grads who've been licensed for months and still haven't gotten a single interview, let alone an offer. If I left now I'd be coming home unemployed and broker than broke.
The unselfish (and more significant) reason is that as a brand-new RN I'm what's considered "competent for entry-level practice." I've got plenty of factual knowledge, and have proven myself educable by graduating nursing school, but I'm still pretty much useless till some nice preceptor takes me under their wing and pounds a few months of orientation and experience in to me. I am, sadly, not yet what's needed in the kind of chaos that Haiti is experiencing. They need skilled OR, ER, and critical care nurses, who can look at a patient and know how to triage them ( ... )
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