I'll admit that I shouldn't have expected the big bad OR to be the same as my outpatient ASC clinic. I'm just having trouble being new in such an unfamiliar environment. Its hard enough being a total moron everyday! Let alone dealing with difficult personalities!
I've been there for 3 months and I have 4 more months of orientation. Should I quit and try and get another ASC job??? I don't know if I'm cut out for this! Its very industrial in comparison to the cush world from whence I came!!! Maybe this will give me good experience for finding other jobs (ASC and otherwise) if I stick it out.
Did any other OR nurses HATE their job at first and then love it later? Is there any hope for me??
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I'll admit that I shouldn't have expected the big bad OR to be the same as my outpatient ASC clinic. I'm just having trouble being new in such an unfamiliar environment. Its hard enough being a total moron everyday! Let alone dealing with difficult personalities!
I've been there for 3 months and I have 4 more months of orientation. Should I quit and try and get another ASC job??? I don't know if I'm cut out for this! Its very industrial in comparison to the cush world from whence I came!!! Maybe this will give me good experience for finding other jobs (ASC and otherwise) if I stick it out.
Did any other OR nurses HATE their job at first and then love it later? Is there any hope for me??
Any advice?
I am sitting here chuckling at your post. I HATED my job when I first got to the OR. HATED IT. It seemed that nobody was willing to help, there was a great deal of animosity (for lack of a better word) toward any new person, and the educator seemed bound and determined to make the new people feel like total idiots. Mission accomplished! I felt like the biggest imbecile on the face of the planet. It was only after I took a good look at myself, took a factual inventory of the successes I had in the past as a nurse and had a pep-talk with myself that I realized that I WAS NOT THE PROBLEM. The teaching was horrid, the leadership was non-existent, the nurses were spiteful (one of them was actually caught sabatoging another new nurse by hiding a needle during closing counts), and morale was horrid. It was clear to me at that point that I needed to find another facility that offered a designated and approved preceptor program for the OR. I found one, and I am so glad that I stuck with OR nursing. I can't imagine doing anything differently now.
What are you experiencing at this OR that you hate? Do you think it is the facility itself? Do you have support there? Good leadership?
canesdukegirl, BSN, RN
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I am sitting here chuckling at your post. I HATED my job when I first got to the OR. HATED IT. It seemed that nobody was willing to help, there was a great deal of animosity (for lack of a better word) toward any new person, and the educator seemed bound and determined to make the new people feel like total idiots. Mission accomplished! I felt like the biggest imbecile on the face of the planet. It was only after I took a good look at myself, took a factual inventory of the successes I had in the past as a nurse and had a pep-talk with myself that I realized that I WAS NOT THE PROBLEM. The teaching was horrid, the leadership was non-existent, the nurses were spiteful (one of them was actually caught sabatoging another new nurse by hiding a needle during closing counts), and morale was horrid. It was clear to me at that point that I needed to find another facility that offered a designated and approved preceptor program for the OR. I found one, and I am so glad that I stuck with OR nursing. I can't imagine doing anything differently now.
What are you experiencing at this OR that you hate? Do you think it is the facility itself? Do you have support there? Good leadership?