Hi everyone, I am a new graduate nurse on the telemetry unit at a large academic medical center. This is my first nursing job after school and I'm on orientation. Nursing is a second career for me, my first job was in clinical research. I have a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and in nursing.
My goal after nursing school was to go back to clinical research. I was unable to find any jobs in the research field and I ended up accepting a position on the telemetry floor. The hospital I work for just posted a job opening for a clinical research nurse in orthopaedics unit and I want to apply for the position. But I'm afraid it may backfire on me if my manager finds out. I'm on the second month of a three month orientation period.
I enjoy interacting with patients, but I do
not feel intellectually challenged and I dread going to work each day. I feel like a glorified waiter at my current position and I think I would be much happier working in research. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Wanting to not work at the bedside is fine and all. But, before you went to nursing school, did you even look into how you're going to get a research position right after graduating? Or did you just think you were going to get a nursing research job right off the bat, if that was your ultimate goal?
I don't know about other states, but a quick search in NY's major hospitals alone will tell you that you need years of clinical experience before you'd even qualify. That is, of course, unless you have connections.
Prior RN experience in a clinical setting preferred. Experience working with specific indications (department-specific). Minimum of 3 years progressively responsible related experience coordinating clinical/research trials studies.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing; current New York State Registered Nursing License and a minimum of two years of clinical nursing experience required
• BCLS certification upon hire and ACLS certification within six months of hire necessary
• Phlebotomy experience necessary and IV certification preferred
• *Minimum Qualifications for Grade**
• *Applicant** **MUST** **meet these minimum qualifications to be considered an applicant**
Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus four years of related experience.
Because a real RN is compassionate and caring and I don't see this in your post. I don't see you having peoples skills and that's sad. Hope your enjoying the rest of your day.
I have had it up to here with this crap. So I'm supposed to be Mother Teresa year round simply because I earned a BSN and RN behind my name and work as a full time RN? I call BS. Real and honest advice that isn't rainbows and unicorn farts from an actual RN doesn't mean said RN is lacking in compassion.
You are in for a rude awakening this fall assuming you actually make it through nursing school.
Or maybe watch Willy Wonka again and see what happens to spoiled verucka?? I am trying to be emphatic, however, it is such a slap in those of our faces that chose this career to help others, ever thought "being a waitress" makes people happy when it means you have helped someone that can't do things themselves? Wow how people like you make it through nursing programs super scary!! If your bedside mannner is anything like your posts, I suspect your patients are running you ragged because they know you could care less. Stop and talk to them snd get to know their story and when patients sense you are truly there to care and help, well most won't take advantage of you. This is why nurses need experience before being hired on such a critical floor!!
Scary to think people like yourself work in tele:i I mean could you actually respond to a patient going down the tubes? Or would you be that nurse we all see crying about how bad your assignment is for the day!!!
Here is some words of advice.. let another nurse who actually gives a crap work and stay home!!
The OP feels like a waiter/waitress and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! I hate all these nurses that are so insecure that they can't listen to someone's thoughts on the job without taking it personally. It doesn't concern you how they feel about the job. It concerns them, so answer to help them and get over yourself.
Nursing has a lot of problems when it comes to intellectual fulfillment. The AMA wants to keep the interesting stuff to themselves. Ignorant nurses are in their interest. Nurses that defend this state of affairs only perpetuate it.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
The OP feels like a waiter/waitress and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! I hate all these nurses that are so insecure that they can't listen to someone's thoughts on the job without taking it personally. It doesn't concern you how they feel about the job. It concerns them, so answer to help them and get over yourself.
Nursing has a lot of problems when it comes to intellectual fulfillment. The AMA wants to keep the interesting stuff to themselves. Ignorant nurses are in their interest. Nurses that defend this state of affairs only perpetuate it.
You hate all those nurses who disagree with you?! How interesting. You sound like a very hostile person.
It may possibly have escaped your attention that all of those nurses who you hate because they "can't get over themselves" are providing useful and real world advice. Possibly you are not able to process advice with which you disagree. That's a serious handicap.
Any nurse only two months into orientation who finds herself bored or "not intellectually challenged" isn't doing it right. There is so much to learn and so much to know -- if you're not learning you aren't trying.
As AMA "trying to keep the good stuff for themselves" -- that has nothing to do with this discussion. I think that's an ignorant opinion, but irrelevant.
If the research job was with a different health system I'd say it can't hurt to apply. Given your lack of experience you most likely wouldn't get the position, but you'd never know if you would've gotten the job if you didn't try. But, since the research position is in the same hospital I'll say don't even bother. Highly doubtful you'd be hired into another department when you are still in orientation in your current department and very likely that your current manager will be less than impressed by your attempt to jump ship so soon after being hired. Besides, applying for a different position within the same system is most likely against hospital policy.
You hate all those nurses who disagree with you?! How interesting. You sound like a very hostile person.
It may possibly have escaped your attention that all of those nurses who you hate because they "can't get over themselves" are providing useful and real world advice. Possibly you are not able to process advice with which you disagree. That's a serious handicap.
Any nurse only two months into orientation who finds herself bored or "not intellectually challenged" isn't doing it right. There is so much to learn and so much to know -- if you're not learning you aren't trying.
As AMA "trying to keep the good stuff for themselves" -- that has nothing to do with this discussion. I think that's an ignorant opinion, but irrelevant.
And I hate nurses who hate nurses who have opinions different from the person whom they hate, even if the nurse who hates the other nurse agrees with me...
You hate all those nurses who disagree with you?! How interesting. You sound like a very hostile person.
It may possibly have escaped your attention that all of those nurses who you hate because they "can't get over themselves" are providing useful and real world advice. Possibly you are not able to process advice with which you disagree. That's a serious handicap.
Any nurse only two months into orientation who finds herself bored or "not intellectually challenged" isn't doing it right. There is so much to learn and so much to know -- if you're not learning you aren't trying.
As AMA "trying to keep the good stuff for themselves" -- that has nothing to do with this discussion. I think that's an ignorant opinion, but irrelevant.
What I am responding to is the "thou dost protest too much" offense taken, aspect of a lot of the comments. When people are secure in their ego's, their sense of purpose and worth they derive from work, they do not so easily take offense at other's dislike of their profession. Yet, on this forum, there is a very high level of sensitivity to any slight against the nursing profession. I have done many jobs, and if someone was to denigrate them, I would either agree, disagree or think that they are so wrong that it's not relevant to talk about. But I would not take it personally, because I am not trying to project something that does not exist. I am not sensitive to other's perceptions because I am confident I understand the limitations of the work I have done, and am proud of effort I put into it. No one takes it away by any words. I may disagree, but I don't take it personally.
But it seems the foundation of many nurse's sense of self and self worth in work is so fragile, that negative opinions are taken as personal slights, rather than negative opinions.
If my friend, an ID doc, is confronted by another ID doc that says, "being an ID doc isn't intellecually fullfilling etc".....do you think he cares? No. Why? Because he finds it fully intellectually fulfilling, and there is no opening for insecurity there. He is solid in this fact.
What I am responding to is the "thou dost protest too much" offense taken, aspect of a lot of the comments. When people are secure in their ego's, their sense of purpose and worth they derive from work, they do not so easily take offense at other's dislike of their profession. Yet, on this forum, there is a very high level of sensitivity to any slight against the nursing profession. I have done many jobs, and if someone was to denigrate them, I would either agree, disagree or think that they are so wrong that it's not relevant to talk about. But I would not take it personally, because I am not trying to project something that does not exist. I am not sensitive to other's perceptions because I am confident I understand the limitations of the work I have done, and am proud of effort I put into it. No one takes it away by any words. I may disagree, but I don't take it personally.
But it seems the foundation of many nurse's sense of self and self worth in work is so fragile, that negative opinions are taken as personal slights, rather than negative opinions.
If my friend, an ID doc, is confronted by another ID doc that says, "being an ID doc isn't intellecually fullfilling etc".....do you think he cares? No. Why? Because he finds it fully intellectually fulfilling, and there is no opening for insecurity there. He is solid in this fact.
Many here, dost protest too much.
Nursing has been fighting an uphill battle for eons to change how we are viewed as mindless pill-pushing, order following, physician serving, physician screwing, husband seeking, poop slinging robots to have one of our own, although arguably...barely, do the same is particularly galling. We are professionals and deserve to be thought of AND treated as such. If we allow such rhetoric as was opined in the OP to go unanswered then we only give further reason for people to continue to treat us like uneducated hand maids which I, for one, certainly am not. So yes...words do matter. YOU may not mind being denigrated on a PUBLIC forum and that's fine for you but it's also fine for others to express their opinions of what was said. Wait until you have a few more years of dealing with the public and other health care providers as a nurse under your belt and your view may change.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
why all of this negativity? This person came here to look for some help to look for some advice and you make her feel like she's a lousy person. How did you become an RN a compassionate RN living in a negative world.
Oh, I don't know maybe because it's a pretty common policy that you can't transfer within a hospital (or system) unless you have been in the current position for 6 to 12 mos. And maybe because it's very unlikely that they will even think about giving the position to the OP. Some of us have worked in hospitals and know about policies like this.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
And I hate nurses who hate nurses who have opinions different from the person whom they hate, even if the nurse who hates the other nurse agrees with me...
Beverage alert! I must have low blood sugar or something . . . I cannot quite follow that.
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Wanting to not work at the bedside is fine and all. But, before you went to nursing school, did you even look into how you're going to get a research position right after graduating? Or did you just think you were going to get a nursing research job right off the bat, if that was your ultimate goal?
I don't know about other states, but a quick search in NY's major hospitals alone will tell you that you need years of clinical experience before you'd even qualify. That is, of course, unless you have connections.