Leaving nursing job after 2 months

[swimmingfever00]

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!

[1jkearney]

This site is for NURSES. So it matters because your NOT A NURSE, yet you portray it in your user name - lord - they should make all people on this platform verify they actually have a license - it's the neive students that junk this place up and makes no sense for anyone to post anything unless you have earned your title!! So if your not a rn and "in school" stop posting because your so clueless to our reality, simple you have yet to walk in our shoes - far as the other wanna be nurses - get cracking on passing your tests before you join us that have been around probably longer then you are old.

[Wuzzie]

I need to correct my post. It's telemetry nursing she thinks is not intellectually stimulating. You know all those squiggly lines and stuff.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

It's sad that anyone would think being brash is the way to express a difference of opinion. I watched my Great Grandmother work as a nurse for years. She worked with seasoned nurses and new grads. She never once took the approach of being intolerant when a new nurse expressed their feelings about the position they took fresh out of school. No one wants to be coddled and treated like a child. But no one deserves to be spoken to as if they have no feelings either. Which any nurse would understand because that's the way plenty of nurses are treated by coworkers and family members of patients they are caring for.

No, I don't agree that a new nurses first position should be in telemetry. But that's where she is and unfortunately she doesn't like it. It's not what you say it's how you say it. You wouldn't tell a patient's Mother to shut up and leave the room. You would find a polite way to get her to hush. So why talk to a fellow nurse that way.

Example, You're new on the floor and I understand it's not something you enjoy. Two months into a position you really don't have a full grasp of the ins and outs of the job. The floor you are working on is one of the toughest but also one of the most rewarding. I understand you might feel as though you aren't getting the full on feeling or elation you expected to get when you started your journey into nursing. Two months in you're still getting your feet wet. Your superiors aren't going to give you everything on day one, maybe they realize you seem uninterested. I encourage you to find something that you do enjoy about the position. It's hard as a new grad to get a position in a hospital. Trying to apply for another job during your probationary period would not be smart. If you simply cannot stand it your best bet is to look outside of the hospital you are in now because both your current manager and the manager for the position you want will frown upon your desire to leave a new position so quickly.

I said everything you said without being...brash. I get that no one is going to hold your hand when you are a nurse. I know as a nurse you have to deal with the "real" rather than sugar coating. But don't you see enough of that on a hospital unit. Why aren't nurses more supportive of one another? No matter how many times you are annoyed by a patient you don't become intolerant...same principle should apply elsewhere.

I'll admit to being mighty confused here. How in the world did you witness your great grandmother at work every single minute of every single work day so that you are CERTAIN she never once "took the position of being intolerant" of anything at all?

If you haven't even begun nursing school yet, how in the world could you have possibly formed an opinion on whether or not a new nurse should be hired into the telemetry unit?

If you haven't been to nursing school yet, you have no idea -- absolutely none -- how an experienced nurse should handle any situation, especially not the situation described.

Nurses are supportive of one another. The fact that you don't like the way nurses are supportive of one another in no way diminishes the validity of the advice offered to the original poster.

Some folks don't get the message -- any message -- unless it's spelled out for them in no uncertain terms and without any sugar coating. Some folks don't get the message anyway, and that's another issue. But for you to assume that because your great grandmother is a nurse you know what it's like and how everyone should handle a situation is ludicrous.

But then, all of us seasoned nurses just love it when pre-nursing students tell our how we should think, feel and behave.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Well, if you think that the quality of nursing coursework is not a huge issue for the future of nursing respect, scope of practice, and being seen as skilled work, then I fundamentally disagree. I am in a top ranked nursing school (nearly done) and it is a joke. As they all are. Look at my pathophysiology class and the pathophisiology class I sat in on with the Med students. There is no excuse for such a gulf in the scientific and educational rigor between the professions.

As for nursing theory. There are too many "theory" classes. Just too many. Perhaps have 1. 2 is too many. But taking one every term? Its a joke.

From your vast experience with all nursing programs -- oh wait! -- just one nursing program -- you are in a position to conclude that they're all a joke? WOW! Omniscience. I had not idea. What do you think we should do about global warming?

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

WOW...WUZZIE...Talk about eating our young !!! She's absolutely correct for feeling like a "waitress" !! I'm an ER nurse and these patients ask for food in triage ! She's got every right to feel the way she does WITHOUT YOU making her feel worse !!!

If the original poster feels "like a waitress" and isn't "intellectually challenged" after a bare two months on the job, she's not doing it right. With respect to your ER experience, if you feel like a waitress and aren't intellectually challenged, you're doing it wrong, too.

Everyone has a right to their feelings. But sometimes their feelings are wrong. It's not up to us to validate everyone's feelings -- and we cannot MAKE her feel worse about anything. It would take her having a modicum of tntellectual curiosity about the job which she chose to do for a glimmer of understanding that her feelings might not be an adequate indicator of the reality of the situation to creep through.

In other words, one's feelings do not necessarily describe reality.

This isn't a support group. This is an Internet forum where folks can come for information, advice and reality checks. If all you're interested in is your feelings, this probably isn't the best place to post a question.

[TriciaJ, RN]

I'll admit to being mighty confused here. How in the world did you witness your great grandmother at work every single minute of every single work day so that you are CERTAIN she never once "took the position of being intolerant" of anything at all?

If you haven't even begun nursing school yet, how in the world could you have possibly formed an opinion on whether or not a new nurse should be hired into the telemetry unit?

If you haven't been to nursing school yet, you have no idea -- absolutely none -- how an experienced nurse should handle any situation, especially not the situation described.

Nurses are supportive of one another. The fact that you don't like the way nurses are supportive of one another in no way diminishes the validity of the advice offered to the original poster.

Some folks don't get the message -- any message -- unless it's spelled out for them in no uncertain terms and without any sugar coating. Some folks don't get the message anyway, and that's another issue. But for you to assume that because your great grandmother is a nurse you know what it's like and how everyone should handle a situation is ludicrous.

But then, all of us seasoned nurses just love it when pre-nursing students tell our how we should think, feel and behave.

Yeah, I loved the whole great-grandmother thing. That was not the generation who had to *****-foot around and worry about everyone's delicate feelings. I'm sure Great-Grandma wasn't intolerant; that's because being plain-spoken wasn't called intolerance. I'm sure she received a dressing-down or two as a new nurse and never thought to whine about being bullied or eaten. And when she was raising young nurses from pups, she probably didn't bother to mince words. And I would bet a lot of her fledglings had life-long appreciation for what she taught them. But what do I know?

[Bob Loblaw]

I would set up an appointment with the manager of the research job to see if you even meet their requirements. If you do and its something you want to do and in the same facility speak with your manager and HR. The facility wont be loosing out on your orientation in you if its the same company. But its best for you and your PT's if your heart really isn't in it to move on. Sometimes things don't work out- that's life. We have people that don't complete orientation many times "its not what i thought it was going to be"

[TriciaJ, RN]

Yeah, I loved the whole great-grandmother thing. That was not the generation who had to *****-foot around and worry about everyone's delicate feelings. I'm sure Great-Grandma wasn't intolerant; that's because being plain-spoken wasn't called intolerance. I'm sure she received a dressing-down or two as a new nurse and never thought to whine about being bullied or eaten. And when she was raising young nurses from pups, she probably didn't bother to mince words. And I would bet a lot of her fledglings had life-long appreciation for what she taught them. But what do I know?

I did not put in the asterisks. I used a common expression that refers to the light steps of a cat and is not off-colour. That is really pathetic.

[subee, MSN, CRNA]

I just don't see people giving anyone more respect because they are telling them they "I should have more respect!"

It may feel like a release to "fight" back against people not giving you your "due", but it doesn't change anything.

Nurses need to have a more science based and more rigorous education. It needs to be a job that not just anyone can get into. Then you have more respect. Then you are in more rarified company, can demand more, and are not seen as a waitress.

If you keep allowing nursing theory classes to dominate the coursework, you will keep getting inferior nurses, and they will make everyone else look bad.

Telling people to respect you doesn't make anyone respect you. Nurses need to have higher expectations for their profession.[/QUOT

More science anyone? Our CC just dropped the chemistry requirement. Argument is that students can take it later when they get Bachelor's. Only acute care in town us Magnet and want BSN.

[Emergent, RN]

Well, I remember great great great great granddad plowing the field with the mule. If you don't believe me I will call you a bully.

He was an inspiration to me. He taught me that work ethic that I carry with me today, unlike these millennials and generation Xers. They don't know nothing about nobody or anything.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I would set up an appointment with the manager of the research job to see if you even meet their requirements. If you do and its something you want to do and in the same facility speak with your manager and HR. The facility wont be loosing out on your orientation in you if its the same company. But its best for you and your PT's if your heart really isn't in it to move on. Sometimes things don't work out- that's life. We have people that don't complete orientation many times "its not what i thought it was going to be"

I'm not sure I understand what Physical Therapists have to do with anything.

[jasRNLTC]

i know this is irrelevant to this post and im sorry in advance, but ive been looking for a hospital job for 6 months already. i am a new grad with BSN. Does any one know which hospitals are most likely to hire new grads, ive become so discouraged :/