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Shortages in CC areas has lead to lots of floating between units. Some nurses float every day away from their home unit. Nobody's happy.
The newest practice is management has stopped pretending it's a float situation, and just forced the senior nurses to transfer. Whether they want to or not. Of course there's no orientation. A nurse is a nurse is a nurse after all.
I'm old enough to know there's not much you can do except quit. Or is there?
What would you do?
Anyone else out there feel like they've been forced to transfer as punishment? Until recently I was a NICU nurse. Long story short, I had an encounter with a demeaning charge nurse that reflected poorly on my ability to do my job (and sent me into a panic attack, but hey, who's counting?). She reported this to the Cluster Manager as all floors dealing with women and children are under the same manager. This manager concluded that I had not been properly trained on orientation and gave me 2 weeks of reorientation with the more critical babies in the unit, which I had not taken care of since orientation. After 2 weeks, she concluded it was not working and gave me the option to transfer to Women & Newborn or any other unit in the hospital, but I "can't stay in NICU" even though she admits that I do fine with the lower acuity patients. I hadn't even been working in NICU a year, and prior to that I came from a Med-Surg floor; I only received 8 weeks orientation after my transfer to NICU (because "a nurse is a nurse"). Anyone else been here before? Is there anything I can do to get back to NICU, which is where I want to be?
imintrouble, BSN, RN
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I agree with the positive attitude, but it feels like I'm putting my stamp of approval on the transfer when I act like it doesn't bother me. I tried that, and it just made everybody else feel better except me.
I know I won't get anywhere near what I make now if I leave, but I think I can get a job. I'd just have to work 5 eights, or work extra to make up the difference. I'd probably hate it, but right now I'm absolutely miserable.