I started a new job and I hate it. I have been there over a month but I didn't like it from the start. There are many rude people (surgeons and a really crabby nurse or two). I have been spoken to rudely and this place is like a factory. It's an OR job which I have one before and I have enjoyed the OR in the past---just not this place. They do many small cases a day --like 18 and Im exhausted when I get home. I fall asleep on the sofa at 8pm.
With all that aside, I just hate this place. Even the other nurses feel this way. I never told them I felt this way. I can barely force myself out of bed in the morning. I feel this job will make me depressed. Some mornings I want to cry. I wish I never started this job.
I have witnessed surgeons yell at nurses and I know it could be me next. I dont have a thin skin per say but I dont like to be scolded like a kid either.
My old OR was wonderful, but it closed down. I am willing to try different areas of nursing. I start to worry what if I quit and hate the next job. My last job was LTC and apart from working straight nights-I liked it.
Really, I just want to quit this place before I get really depressed. BUT I feel guilty. They spent money to train me and some of the nurses and the supervisor are wonderful.
My advice is to look for a new job and then quit this one when you have the new job lined up. You don't want to quit the job and then be unemployed in an area where jobs are hard to come by. Being unemployed is more depressing that working in a hellhole. At least when you are working in a hellhole, you have income to pay your rent and buy food.
It sounds like this place has an assembly line mentality, and anyone who slows down the line gets roundly criticized. That is a miserable work environment. I would look for a way out, but not tip my hand before I had something lined up. Good luck to you.
You really should be thankful you found something because it is hard for some people to find work. I understand you may have bad days but everyday is not going to great either. Hope things get better hun.
I dont look at it that way. I have had several offers. I just wish I didnt take this one.
You really should be thankful you found something because it is hard for some people to find work. I understand you may have bad days but everyday is not going to great either. Hope things get better hun.
It doesn't look she has just a bad day. It's just a toxic work environment. She sounds like she already has some experience so it shouldn't be too bad. Despite the bad economy there are still plenty of nursing jobs out there. However, you need to present yourself well, litterally "sell yourself" during the interview. She sounds really depressed and may flunk the interview at this time so I would try to work out with managers and maybe switching to nights first. Of course, while doing that I would be searching for new jobs out there. Sometimes just the thought of changing jobs in the near future helps to get through the toughest days.
Ajaxgirl, think this way: "you can yell all you want at me, I don't care because I'll be out of here soon." Stick your tongue out to them in your head Don't burn bridges though, you never know when you meet these people again.
No anaesthetic nurses/techs? If your having to circulate and do that as well then get the heck out of there, sounds unsafe.
What sort of procedures are they doing? I'm guessing phacos?
yes, phacos.
No, I dont have to do the anaesthetic part.
I circulate, we have to chart electronically all meds used, sometimes there are 10 per pt. I have to do the surgical time out, prep, open everything etc.
It doesn't look she has just a bad day. It's just a toxic work environment. She sounds like she already has some experience so it shouldn't be too bad. Despite the bad economy there are still plenty of nursing jobs out there. However, you need to present yourself well, litterally "sell yourself" during the interview. She sounds really depressed and may flunk the interview at this time so I would try to work out with managers and maybe switching to nights first. Of course, while doing that I would be searching for new jobs out there. Sometimes just the thought of changing jobs in the near future helps to get through the toughest days.
Ajaxgirl, think this way: "you can yell all you want at me, I don't care because I'll be out of here soon." Stick your tongue out to them in your head Don't burn bridges though, you never know when you meet these people again.
If you really are considering quitting, be sure and find another job first! You don't need the stress of not having a job on top of being depressed from the one you just left...
Don't burn bridges though, you never know when you meet these people again.
caliotter3
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My advice is to look for a new job and then quit this one when you have the new job lined up. You don't want to quit the job and then be unemployed in an area where jobs are hard to come by. Being unemployed is more depressing that working in a hellhole. At least when you are working in a hellhole, you have income to pay your rent and buy food.