Early burn out?

Agree with everything the very wise Davey Do says above.

You've been there 8 months. Not long now until you make it to a year. Then re-evaluate. You may well feel  you can stick it out even longer by that point, and before you know it you'll be at the point where you can start to apply for your ICU or ER jobs.

A year seems like a long time when you're young, but believe me, it's nothing over your whole career. Honestly, it will fly.

It's also very normal to feel tired when you work night shift. Try to pay more attention than you normally would to getting adequate rest, eating healthily, going easy on caffeine and alcohol etc.

I was an LPN for 6 years, became an RN about 7 months and started in a big hospital. After 6 months, I was completely burnt out and went back to be an LTC ADON with my 6 years of LPN LTC supervising experience. I think I found my niche.

That being said, maybe the hospital isn't for you, like it wasn't for me. I would look into different fields of nursing, and see what you like. Do some YouTubing on different specialties, and ask yourself questions.

You brought up that you had 6 patients in one day discharged and got 6 new patients the same day. I assume you had many similar days. This brings up a great question; do you like taking care of the same people every day? Or do you like the changing patients, and it was just overwhelming that you had so many discharges? Do you enjoy day shift 7a-7p, night shift 7p-7a , 7-3, 3-11, or 11-7? What works best for your life and sleep schedule? I did nights all my LPN and RN life up until now, and I loved it. But now being in day shift, I actually learned to love it all over again, after going 7-ish years without it back since when I was a CNA for 7 months in LPN school.

How about office work? Do you like office duties? Filling prescriptions? Rooming patients like MAs? I did it for 3 months as an LPN, and one month after transferring from the hospital after a huge mental health breakthrough involving hospitalization I had while working at the hospital (Feel free to message me if you need to talk by the way, I probably get how you're feeling!). Found out it wasn't for me and didn't pay enough.

What about money? Would you rather work in a more stressful environment with more responsibilities for more pay, or a less busy setting for less?

My point being is that you need to look deep inside. Look into different specialties. See what attracts you. There's a lot more to nursing than just hospitals out there. ?

Good luck!!

I always knew when I decided to become a nurse that I wanted to work in a specialty clinic or be an administrative nurse and not what I call a "hands on" bedside nurse so to speak. I never had any medical training/background when I went into nursing; therefore, was very inexperienced as such. Then after years of hard work & determination from ground zero, I got my nursing PHN degree & was expected to  know literally everything because I had that title behind my name and in fact was told at my first job, "this isn't a nursing school, you will be shown how to do something once and then be expected to know and perform it." The problem is everyone does things differently, so one person shows you something, the next person that you're on training probation with tells you that way is wrong. Long story short, I didn't defend myself & got fired because I continually chose not to throw others under the bus by saying "so-&-so told me to do it that way." Had I known it would take YEARS to get the job I wanted (specialty clinic or administrative because those nursing positions were not readily available in my area and required years of experience) and had I known there would be so many cliques, backstabbers and so much bullying in nursing, I NEVER would have went into the nursing profession, just my 2 cents.