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Author	Help!! going back to work after nearly 4 yr break!!
satcat66 (offline) Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Posts: 2	Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:01 pm I graduated as an RN in 2004 and worked for only 9 months before needing to resign due to family issues. I have made the decision to go back and finish the New Grad program I started as I was unable to get a job without more experience and current references (CRAZY....shortage of nurses yet I couldn't get a job). Anyway, I am absolutely terrified!!! I don't know where to start to wake up my brain. I will be on an oncology ward. Can anyone give me any advice on how to prepare myself for the return to work?(in only 3 weeks time).

Meegles (offline) Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Adelaide Posts: 3	Jan 29, 2009, 10:49 pm Hi satcat, can't give you any advice, just wanted to say I empathise - I am in the same position, only I have been out 16 years! I have just done my Re-entry degree at Uni and have just applied for a job, so I too am terrified... Perhaps start reviewing common medications, Anatomy and physiology and disease process... Good luck... Hopefully someone in this forum will be able to help you! Megan

satcat66 (offline) Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Posts: 2	Jan 30, 2009, 01:44 pm Thanks for the empathy....it's a very scary thing! In some ways it's better to be out of it for 5 or 10 years because then I would have qualified for a refresher course. Now although there will still be some support I will still be out there on my own fairly soon. I will try to do some revision but I'm trying not to stress too much because that never helps. I will just ask lots of questions and not do anything unless I am sure of what I'm doing. Good luck with your return to work and thanks for the entry (I've been waiting ages).

Meegles (offline) Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Adelaide Posts: 3	Jan 30, 2009, 11:49 pm The only words of comfort that I can give you are that in my placements this year, I found the staff very helpful and willing to explain or demonstrate, I hope you have the same experience.. I also felt better when I realised that the permanent staff were also asking each other for help all the time and I saw that it didn't matter that I was inexperienced... Especially in a specialty area such as oncology, they won't expect you to know the drugs and procedures etc, and the basics don't change, you will be surprised how much you still know... Good luck... Megan

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Help!! going back to work after nearly 4 yr break!!