Career advice

[nhnurse25]

I recently moved from the east coast to Colorado from a small magnet non profit hospita to a corporate 500 bed hospital. At first I was excited for my new position and a chance to start learning a new specialty. I had been doing med surg for four years and enjoyed my old hospital and loved my coworkers but wanted to try a new specialty. Prior to orientation I began to see my new hospital was experiencing some changes in regards to human resources and new hire processes. I am typically very flexible but am becoming frustrated. Over the course of orientation I have been pulled off orientation multiple times to take patients and have felt as a result the orientation to be very disjointed. My schedule changes weekly, making it difficult to plan the week ahead. I am also working nights which I thought I could adapt to but am definitely not a night person. I have thought of looking for other jobs but wonder if I should give this more time? have only been there 3 months. My managers know about the orientation process and the human resources changes and are not pleased with it as well. I am nervous about burning bridges and what I may say on my resume or in an interview.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

It's always frustrating and somewhat stressful to move from a position of 'expert' to one of 'novice'.... and this is what happens whenever you change locations or jobs. Some of us are very uncomfortable in the Newby role. You have to learn a lot of new stuff. AND you're working nights now. That's a lot of change. On top of that, you have also experienced a MAJOR change in location. I would imagine that just about everything about your new home is pretty different from your (comfortable and familiar) previous home.

Give yourself a break... and time to acclimate to all the change. Three months is a very short period of time. It will get easier.