Not sure how to begin. Graduated from school in June 2013 and started a week later in a hybrid neuro step down/neuro ICU. I stayed on the atepdown side for 3-4 months and was quickly transitioned in to the ICU part of the unit. I catch on fast and after 6 months I found myself very bored with what I was doing. If I got a "boring" assignment I would quickly become miserable. I enjoyed taking care of our sicker patients and would become frustrated if I had an assignment in the atepdown unit.. But all staff were required to work both sides. After about a year into my job I decided to bid for a position in our larger med/surg ICU in our facility. Oct 2014 I blew through my orientation and was taking assignments on my own. Fast foward four months and I am already bored with my job/patient population. I crave complicated diagnosis and "sick patients"...I just don't feel full filled at work anymore.
I have only been here for 4 months so far and I know I cannot leave after such a short time.. But I hate being so dissatisfied with my job. Has anyone else found they too have a "craving" for action as a nurse? I have less than 2 years of nursing experience and have already become bored in the ICU...
Another local hospital has a trauma center/sicu but that would require me to change hospitals which isn't ideal but I can't go to work everyday feeling this way!
What is next for me? Not sure where to go from here. Any advice appreciated.
I've never worked the ED as an RN (just as an assistant), but it was pretty awesome. :)
I work in the OR now. Every day is different, for a million different reasons in a million different ways. Even the most routine procedure has the potential to become anything but routine. We have scheduled/planned cases and then we have emergencies. My facility is a Level 1 trauma center, which means we can get just about anything at any time - plus there are inpatients who are always having things change and needing to go to the OR as soon as possible. In my facility, RNs learn to scrub and circulate so I have about a million instruments to know (and what sets they live in, plus what about 10 different docs call each), and about 17 pieces of technology to know how to use and troubleshoot. No two days are the same - no two procedures are the same.
FurBabyMom, MSN, RN
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Maybe something like the ED/ER or OR?
I've never worked the ED as an RN (just as an assistant), but it was pretty awesome. :)
I work in the OR now. Every day is different, for a million different reasons in a million different ways. Even the most routine procedure has the potential to become anything but routine. We have scheduled/planned cases and then we have emergencies. My facility is a Level 1 trauma center, which means we can get just about anything at any time - plus there are inpatients who are always having things change and needing to go to the OR as soon as possible. In my facility, RNs learn to scrub and circulate so I have about a million instruments to know (and what sets they live in, plus what about 10 different docs call each), and about 17 pieces of technology to know how to use and troubleshoot. No two days are the same - no two procedures are the same.