Advice needed.....dislike cardiac

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Hi, I am new here and just got transfered (not by choice) to a cardiac step down unit. They closed my med-surg floor. I just graduated in May and said I would never work on a caridac floor....I just have never had any interest in it. Well, here I am now on this floor. The nurses are so different and I am not passionate about cardiac stuff. I do like the ratio of 4 patients to nurse however. I am wondering if I stay if I will grow to like it or if I should just go somewhere else now and not waste my time. Could I please have some advice???? I am so stressed about it!

Specializes in Travel Nursing, ICU, tele, etc.
When I was first a new (and only) LPN among only RNs on my tele floor the very first thing they taught me was not to rely on the tele, no matter what, and to always check the patient. It applies to any kind of electronic equipment, not just cardiac telemetry.

If that were truly the case, then let's do away with the monitors all together....what is the purpose?? I never said or ever will say not to check the patient. Why are you guys jumping on this like it some kind of crime to look at the monitor to see that your patient is still in a sinus rhythm?? To me that says, they are doing ok, NO V TACH, NO V FIB, etc.....in the meantime, let's scare the OP to death, she doesn't want to do cardiac...

Answer this question: Why are pt's monitored on a telemetry unit? I would say so we know immediately if the go into a deadly rhythm and can respond appropriately. If we had to check all our patients in a timely enough manner to catch a v tach of v fib in time a lot of patients would be dead.

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