I'm thinking about Quitting!! HELP!!

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I have had a "wonderful" job in a small PACU for the past two and a half

years. The hospital is great, supportive of nurses, and has great benefits.

I only work part time but LOVE my fellow co-workers and have felt to finally

"fit in" and work in a place I can call "home"... until recently...

A new manager was hired.. at first, she was very positive and willing to

help work out some kinks in our unit. She is also the manager of our

preoperative area. Alot of experienced nurses quit when she came on board

so she has hired alot of new nurses that have little to no experience working

PACU. I have helped to cross train these new nurses and have felt very

positive about everything... until last week.

I was called by our manager on her cell phone after she had left the building.

Basically, it was put to me and another experienced RN in the PACU, that

we were to start working in the pre-op area also OR we would be subject

to being cancelled and she would let the "per diem" nurses work in the

PACU. She wants us to work like everyone else does which is to preop

the patient, then literally run to the PACU and recover a patient, then

run back to preop and get 2 more ready, then run back to the PACU to

recover more patients. This has NOT worked and I told her that I did

not want to be "miserable" like everybody else is, that I enjoy working

only in the PACU as it keeps me focused on giving good patient care and

not be scattered over two departments all day.

She was rude to me and stated that no one has complained to her about

this so "it doesn't exist".. and it was just heresay.

Needless to say, I am very upset about this and went to the DON.

Nothing has been done yet, but I am thinking about quitting this job.

It has changed, the whole department has changed, and now doing what

I love is being yanked away.

I don't want to work so scattered and pulled constantly back and forth.

She is even training one of the new nurses to be the charge nurse. This nurse

has no management experience. in fact, could not even start an IV

6 months ago!!.. We have had to spoon feed her the whole way, and now

she is going to be in charge of us!!

I just need to get out!! What do you think??

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Strange manager to call you on her cell phone rather than discuss this issue with you in person.

If it were me, before I quit, I would make sure that the DON knew that I was so upset over this issue that I was thinking of resigning.

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Thats exactly what we did... that very day..I went to her office and "in tears"

stated that it looked like I was going to have to quit and I wanted her to know why. We let her know about EVERYthing that has been going on, leaving out no details!!

The only reason I haven't been miserable like everybody else is because

I have stayed in the PACU and not been a floater. She also sits at

the desk all day, making sure her "perfect" plan is working. Which it

doesn't. You can't time to the minute when a surgery will be over.

She has never worked PACU and just doesn't get it!! She also told me

that she can PROVE on papers she has SAVED that no nurse has overlapped

with a patient... this is totally untrue!! They overlap everyday... It 's

just so frustrating, I just don't want to deal with it anymore!!

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