New Grad & Orientation - Do I Switch Floors??

Hi everyone,

First and foremost, thank you for taking the time to read this posting. I came home from my second week of RN orientation and I was completely beside myself...in tears, uptight and just basically unhappy. I am a new grad RN who graduated in August from an accelerated nursing program (this in itself was a poor decision). I accepted a full-time RN position in a teaching hospital that I did my clinical rotations in. I actually did a clinical on this unit...so I thought I knew what I was signing up for! This is a cardiothoracic stepdown floor and I really enjoyed the patient population.

In any event, I need your help and thoughts. Although this is only my second week, I feel like it is a mistake. I am struggling to get the material down and quite frankly, I just seem to feel "displaced" on the floor. Every day that I have been on the unit, they have put me with a DIFFERENT person. They still do not seem to know who my preceptor will be...this scares me. I am extremely organized and structured and I seem to be struggling with this style of orientation. I feel like I need to LEARN and I am afraid my learning is not going to occur on this unit based on what I am seeing. WHAT DO I DO? Since I have not really begun the main orientation...do I ask my NM about it and consider transferring to another unit? I worked way too hard in school to be placed on a floor in which I am miserable and most importantly, not fully trained.

For those of you out there, what do you suggest? I really hate feeling this miserable every day, so I think something is wrong. Almost as if I am "being warned" to make the change now before I get too far along.

Please help if you can.

Thank you for listening as it seems like no one else understands this.