Depressed about new job?

[vxxen]

Hey everyone,

I'm writing here because this week I got really bad news. I'm a new grad and I was hired at the beginning the summer on a geriatrics/medecine unit and i just loved it! Not a too heavy workload so I have time to learn most of the time, but still pretty busy, I love the patients and the team! Everyone is just amazing and I felt I could not be on a better unit.

but this week I learned that I was going to be oriented in LTC center of my hospital. I do not have anything against LTC nurses and they do an amazing job but going there just makes me so depressed I've been crying everyday since I learned I was going there. The reasons are that I was à CNA for a year there before graduating and I was completely exhausted from this place I just could not bear it anymore. Also, I'm really afraid I am going to loose a part of my skills which were already hard to gain for me (I never had a trach, ng tube, and I still have trouble with drawing blood sometimes.) The skills that LTC nurses do are for the majority foley's and wound care where I work. The problem is that in Quebec what you learn in wound care is the basics only. You have to go to university to have a complete class on that. I'm starting uni this fall but cannot take that class until next year?? Îm also afraid I'm going to be incompetent on that part. I just feel like Im not going to be happy there especially since I was so happy to leave this spring. I'm not saying I'd never go to LTC, I was even considering that at the end of my career because I love older people. It's just that it's not the best place for new grad who wants to work in a hospital most of his life.

I'd like to share my worries with my charge nurse and ask if the hospital needs staff somewhere else, but does that make me picky? Am I a big baby for thinking all of this?

I know what not being happy in a job feels like and i do not want to live that ever again I'm just really scared:(

What do you all think? (sorry for the long post I really had to vent)

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Are you just being cross-trained? Because if so- you are making a mountain out of a molehill in my opinion.

[Wuzzie]

If you got hired onto your current unit why are they moving you?

[vxxen]

If you got hired onto your current unit why are they moving you?

Yes I am being trained to both places but I honestly feel like I'm going to work only there because they lack of staff so badly (last weekend, 1 employees were absent!)

And one of my friend told me she was going to be trained on my floor, because she couldn't work at her's since school is starting back and her shift were days only.

[purplegal]

Yes I am being trained to both places but I honestly feel like I'm going to work only there because they lack of staff so badly (last weekend, 1 employees were absent!)

And one of my friend told me she was going to be trained on my floor, because she couldn't work at her's since school is starting back and her shift were days only.

If they're training you at both places, it probably means that you have done such a good job they think you can handle working in more than one area. That's not a bad thing at all, and nothing to be depressed about. It's not exactly a "new job," as you are just expanding on the one you already have. As far as skills, wound care and Foley skills are very good ones to have. Patients in all areas have wounds, so learning to care for them is a good thing. Many patients also have Foley catheters, and not all nurses know how to insert them. If you are concerned that you will be placed too often over there and will lose some of your current skills, you can talk to them. I'm sure they can make it so you are scheduled shifts on your current unit as well. Unless you have been given a lot of negative feedback on your current floor, I doubt that they would put you all of the time anyway. After all, your current floor needs staff, too.

[TriciaJ, RN]

Sounds to me like they want some back-up for their LTC staffing crisis. Because you've already worked there, they probably expect that you'll need less orientation time than someone else would. Speak with your manager and tell her that you're happy to help out in LTC (lie if you have to). But stress that you're really enjoying your current position, looking forward to continued learning and would like a limit put on how many shifts you have to work LTC.

If your manager likes you, she will not want to give you up completely to LTC. If you find yourself working exclusively at LTC and not the unit where you were hired, you will need to speak with management about that. Bon chance.

[kp2016]

I would make an appointment with your manager as soon as possible to discuss this matter, do not wait. Be ready to calmly and professionally tell your manager that you did not apply for a job on the LTC unit as having worked there as an CNA you know it is "not somewhere where you are willing to work" it is important that you use language that conveys that you resigning or transferring to a completely new unit is a serious possibility if they try and force this cross training.

All units will try and float staff to other units if they have a low senses but that really isn't the same thing as essentially being transferred to a different unit to even out staffing numbers. Having worked in a department that rotated staff for months at a time to an understaffed department I can tell you it was my experience that only some staff were rotated, namely the ones who didn't say heck no! loud and clear, because as in your situation the stress and work load between the two units was chalk and cheese. Good luck!