7 months in and rather sad

Sorry, duplicate post.

I'm so sorry for what has happened to you. I was lied to about my starting salary at my first RN job. It was a substantial difference too. I quit after two weeks of anger, first, and then an agonizing decision. I had to pack my stuff and move back to where I had originally come from. You see, I had been recruited and relocated 100 miles from my home to work at this first job that ended up lying to me.

It happened again about 21 years later. I was hired to work on a stepdown unit (that's where my current experience at that time was) and after a couple of days of sitting on my butt in orientation classes discovered that I was reassigned to the surgical GYN oncology unit. No one bothered to tell me and there had been a month between the day I was hired and the day I started orientation. After 3 weeks of unsuccessfully tracking down the weasel of a manager who originally hired me and who made this major decision about my career with this hospital I was able to finally get the truth from the manager of the GYN unit and I quit on the spot.

They've pretty much done something similar to you. They didn't deliver the goods they promised. You can talk to them until you are blue in the face, but it's unlikely that you are going to get a position in any ICU. I'm willing to bet that part of the reason is because they can't afford to lose you from the stepdown unit. Stepdowns are notorious for high turnover rates. I'm reading your post and asking myself why you would want to keep working there after this has been done to you. These people have established themselves as unreliable and untrustworthy in my book. If I were you, I'd start applying for ICU or telemetry positions in other hospitals. You now know to ask who is diagnosing rhythm strips at these job interviews. I would have no problem telling prospective employers about promises not being delivered as your reason for leaving your current hospital and that there is no hope of getting the training you thought they were going to give you. The trick is to make it sound pitiful and not like sour grapes when you are in interviews. It's possible that the recruiters in other hospitals know that your hospital pulls this kind of crap on it's new grads. Something you could do is get one of the nicer, chattier heart docs aside and ask him what hospital he would recommend a new grad look for work in. Don't tell him it's for you so word doesn't get back to your manager. Tell him it's for a friend that's graduating in June. The docs know where the good nurses go.