This confession is important: I am a job hopper. I've been an RN for just over two years and I have had 3 jobs... And I'm looking for another. I started in OB, stayed for 9 months. I wanted to expand my nursing skills and just do more. I went to a med/surg cardiac floor which I did like but I wanted to move to critical care. I took a job in a trauma ICU after a little over a year.
I've been in the ICU for 4 months and I hate it. I'm applying for a job in the cath lab holding area, as we used to recover cath lab patients on my cardiac floor. I know a lot of people down there who are pulling for me but I also know the manager is skeptical of my work history. I really believe that I could be happy there and stay for a long time.
I also email my old manager on cardiac to see of she'd take me back if it all doesn't work out. I'd be embarrassed to return and feel like my old co-workers would judge me but I was comfortable there. There were definitely things I didn't like but overall, it wasn't bad.
There's not really a point to this post other than a confession. It's like my AA for job hopping. Ugh, I hate being like this.
Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
Tuned down a sweet young nurse for a job just this week due to five jobs in four specialties in the four years she has been a nurse. She was sure the opening we were interviewing her for was “it”. I couldn’t believe her.
Specializes in Critical Care Cardiac, Neuro and Trauma.
honestly you dont have the experience to be successful or safe. Ive seen nurses with barely a year of ICU experience fail miserably in interventional areas. you must really know your meds and interventions for crashing patients. it takes a couple years for that in any ICU.
Nurse SMS, MSN, RN
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Tuned down a sweet young nurse for a job just this week due to five jobs in four specialties in the four years she has been a nurse. She was sure the opening we were interviewing her for was “it”. I couldn’t believe her.