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The nursing shortage is intensifying hiring pressure while simultaneous post-COVID burnout waves created a large pool of lapsed nurses willing to return — but only with adequate support. Community discussion shows these nurses exist in numbers but lack any institutional pathway, and employers are beginning to accept non-traditional re-entry candidates.
Nurses who leave the workforce due to burnout, health issues, or career pivots face a fragmented, anxiety-ridden return with no standardized skills verification, no confidence-rebuilding curriculum, and employers reluctant to take a chance on them. Existing refresher courses are generic, infrequent, and not tailored to the specific specialty or gap duration.
Lapsed or gap-year RNs and LPNs (1-3 years out of practice) seeking to re-enter bedside or specialty nursing, particularly those who left due to burnout or mental health challenges
A structured digital re-entry platform that combines adaptive clinical skills reassessment (IV insertion, med-calc, EHR workflows), specialty-specific micro-credentialing, and a peer cohort model pairing returning nurses with active mentors. The platform generates a verified 'return-readiness' profile that hospitals can use in hiring decisions, reducing employer risk and accelerating candidate placement.
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Has anyone here done this? How did you go about it? I left after really bad burnout and dealing with mental health issues and a bad living situation. Got my shit together and ready to try again. But I don’t think my previous job would give me a very good review and I’ve been out of practice for awhile now, so I don’t even know where to begin. I have 10+ years psych experience but only 4 of those were as an LPN, and that one job was basically the entirety of my nursing experience. Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get back to work and pay off my private student loans ;-; submitted by /u/oopsiepoopsey [link] [comments]
I’m an LPN who has not worked as a nurse for almost 2 years, and I graduated 3 years ago. I had to take time off for personal health reasons. In my state, lpns can insert peripheral IV’s, administer IV medications and fluids, and give IV push medications per the BON. At my new grad job in acute rehab, I often administered IV antibiotics and fluids. However, these pts usually came to us with the IV already in, so I don’t have any clinical experience inserting them. I’m trying to get a job now, in acute rehab or medsurg again. With my employment gap, it looks like I’ll have to go the SNF/rehab route. However, these jobs notoriously do not provide adequate training. I’ve had recent interviews and all of these facilities provide IV therapy. My only experience inserting an IV was in nursing school 4 years ago, on a fake arm! Would taking 1 of those online refresher courses be worth it? I tried looking for in person refresher courses for nurses but don’t see any in my area! I also have no ph
I started off in med surg as a new grad in 2021. Worked nights and with the second big wave of COVID, I was getting mandated 1-2x/week. So I burnt out very quickly and didn’t last long. I left in July 2022, went to the OR for 6 months, and then realized my mental health was at its ultimate worse and decided that outpatient was the best for me in that time. I’ve been working in outpatient OB/GYN for 3.5 years now. Originally I loved outpatient because of the stability. Working 8-5, Mon-Fri and no weekends or major holidays. I’ve been able to truly focus on both my mental and physical health after spending all of nursing school and first year of nursing neglecting myself. I feel the better than I’ve ever had before!! But now I’m starting to think I want to go back to the bedside. While outpatient providers stability, working the typical 8-5 is now starting to drain me (I never minded the 12 hour shifts). I love women’s health, so I think I want to possibly go into L&D or postpartum, but
I have been a nurse/RN for close to 5 years now with my ADN. Nursing school was absolutely brutal for me, like I genuinely fought my way to that NCLEX. So much so that I had genuinely no desire to ever go through nursing school again. Fast forward to now, I’ve truly found my place, fortunately yet unfortunately in the acute care setting in a large hospital….where the BSN is required. I’ve been absolutely dreading it. I finally got to a point mentally where I just finally took the dive and started an online program. And immediately out of the gate, I get a 76% on the first “big” assignment we had. Now I’m just riddled with anxiety because what the heck have I gotten myself into??? I haven’t written anything in APA format since 2021. And I know there’s nurses who are going back to school and they’ve been out of school for 20+ years and I literally can’t imagine what kind of issues they’re having. But holy crap it’s literally giving me like imposter syndrome LOL. How did I do this before?
I recently was released from my new grad residency program in a NICU due to failure to progress during orientation at the speed that was expected by leadership. I would rather not dwell on the specifics of this as I put every ounce of effort I could into improving and ultimately the unit turned out to not be a good fit. I am devastated and unsure what comes next for me. This experience has made me realize that acute care may not be for me, but I’m unsure of what other options there as so many people say new grads must pay their dues and do bedside in order to explore other areas of nursing. I am very passionate about public health and have a prior degree in public health so I would love to pursue public health or community nursing but know that those positions are competitive as well. I would really appreciate any advice or recommendations from people on how I can make a game plan to bounce back from this and what steps I can take career wise. Thanks so much, looking forward to the wis
I am on the struggle bus. I had an RN position but was on long term disability and got let go when they were taken over by another hospital (about two weeks before I was cleared to go back to work). I have been trying since April to get a new position and no dice. What the heck is going on in San Diego? I am finishing my MSN (just 100 hours of preceptorship to complete) and recently finished my WOCN and am taking the exams now. Ive been applying to floor nursing jobs and wound jobs if they come up (although that’s less likely for me to get since I haven’t passed my exams for that yet). What’s a girl gotta do to get a job these days as an experienced nurse??? submitted by /u/Practical_Platform76 [link] [comments]
I was working in a NYC hospital during the first wave. I had been a nurse for about two years. My mind still brings up COVID times multiple times a month, usually in a passing thought or two. More often when I'm at work - especially since I still wear a (simple) face mask in every patient's room ("I can't believe we didn't mask up for every single patient before COVID."). Sometimes I will spend a long time just pondering and remembering those days, like watching a documentary film or making sure I don't forget. I wouldn't say I get flashbacks, but I just... remember it a lot. The makeshift units in hallways and outside the hospital, the extra morgue trucks, the paper bags for our single N95 (I remember one day the nurses on the unit decorating their paper bags with markers when they had a breather), the emails from hospital administration telling us not to make a big deal of what was happening or gaslighting us, the times management would scold us for pushing back on lack of PPE or tes
I feel it in my bones. I finally am out of survival mode in my person life, but work has been my personal hell. The old lady that takes her pills crushed takes little bitty bites and makes it worse for herself. I just sigh, and redirect. The person that refuses turns (A&Ox4), and has a self inflicted pressure injury makes me roll my eyes. The addict who complains about not having family members. I educated on cycles of addiction…..I’m empathetic, but I’m more stern with delivery. The person that says they can’t do their wound care, but is a walky talky and can use a mirror to do it….and also works in healthcare (also very simple wound care). The person that takes 15m to talk about random things while they can see the beads of sweat on my forehead and heavy eyes. I just have to literally walk out the door. The entitlement to take a bunch of food/drinks every day so you will have different snack at the shelter….when you are give food/shelter for practically nothing while recovering from
i’ve been a CNA for 6 years. now working as a hospice aide and i love it. me and my ex broke up for the first time in May and the next morning I got my acceptance to LPN school. we ended up getting back together but he kept up with terrible behavior and i ended stuff. but the heartbreak has been so bad still and i crashed out some. i feel things really deeply but this is a season i’ve wanted for myself for many years. i was denied last year and prior to that had a lot of things taking my focus away. this is probably the hardest summer i’ve ever had and i desperately need to shift my focus fully to school. i’m moving from my home town 35 minutes to a different city. y’all it’s so hard but i’ve made promises to myself that i have to keep. i believe i can do this but i know it will probably be the hardest thing i’ve ever done. i met some really sweet people at orientation and i’m hoping i can really build my life back and succeed. just looking for support, advice as i enter this season an