GttDrop34

GttDrop34 has 8 years experience and specializes in ICU, LTACH, step-down, tele, med-surg.

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1. I feel like an idiot at my new job.

   GttDrop34 replied to BalancedInsanity's topic in General Nursing

   Your story sounds so much like what I experienced! Ltach to ICU, rushed through orientation, the whole deal. Then I had the veteran nurses (some of whom had been working on the same unit for 30+years!) looking at me sideways. I'd say good morning and...

2. Do a disproportionate amount of nurses suffer from anxiety?

   GttDrop34 replied to R!XTER's topic in Stress 101

   I've definitely had problems with anxiety throughout my career. I suffered panic attacks many times either thinking about going to work, on the way to work, or at work. The simple fact that we have people's lives in our hands can be such an uneasy fe...