Our ADON says that ICU is boring... Is it true.

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

I currently work in LTC and we have a new ADON. She has been a nurse for under 5 years and have experience in ICU and telementry. She sent us an email stating that she decided to work as an ADON in LTC because she found ICU boring. I was a little shocked. I worked as tech in ICU and the nurses were working their butts off ! I wonder if she will get bored with LTC being a ADON. Its a relatively small nursing home ( 80 beds, 40 residents are skilled nursing). What are your thoughts ?

[Nascar nurse, ASN, RN]

My thoughts....not sure why she would even say it in an email to co workers she doesn't know well. Really, what is the point of it? Trying to make herself look like "Oh, I'm so great that even ICU bored me"? Not a good way to start a new position where the respect you get from the staff means everything.

Hope I am wrong, but good luck

[Girlygirl69]

She was probably fired or made a huge error which almost cost her license. She's running far away from the hospital and she's thinking LTC will be easy.

OR the ICU may just not be her thing. Either way it depends on what ICU you chose and the staff. I work in a MICU during the night shift and my coworkers are awesome and I love my job. It's stressful, depressing at times, but I truly feel like I make a difference

[canchaser, BSN, RN]

Every nurse is wired differently. I was an icu charge nurse left it to go to anesthesia school. I found it boring. Challenging yes but boring. I felt like a glorified tech if the case was going well all u did was write vitals every 5 min. And push a few meds. If not and the crap was hitting the fan it was all on me and my preceptor, things were Fun and great then. I'm an adrenaline junky and want to be more challenged in time management with 2 sick pts. Ect. The boss may find icu boring cause she is more the management type and not the adrenaline junky. To each there own!!!!

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

*Shrugs* Depends on where you work and the day. I've had incredibly busy days running my butt off and happy if I only clocked out a half hour late. And I've had days where I literally watched the minutes on the clock go by praying for something to happen. I imagine this could happen on any floor tho as census fluctuates and patients stabilize.

[Girlygirl69]

I think I'm a lazy bastard because I never wish for drama/action. I would like every patient to be stable, but sedated, be woken up in the AM, successfuly weaned off the vent, transferred to medicine, and then home.

[RNperdiem, RN]

You and me both Girlygirl69! Who says boring is such a bad thing? Have a few crazy days and you will wish for it.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Hmmm. I'd say you just revealed something very specific about where you work. Be careful...

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

I too found it a little inappropiate to state that in an email to coworkers. I wish her the best of luck in her new position.

[BeenThereDoneThat74, MSN, RN]

I don't have a ton of ICU experience. I was cross-trained in a PICU for staffing reasons. I've floated to NICU enough times to know I don't want to work there. To me, being in front of one bed/isolette for 12 hours would drove me nuts. Everyone has their 'thing' in nursing. There are plenty of specialties to go around. Not everyone wants to be an ICU nurse, and maybe that was your NMs way of saying it. It sounds like she is just giving the staff an idea of who she is, where she's been, and what she liked and didn't like.

[sunnycalifRN]

your ADON is right!! All of us ICU nurses just sit around, with our feet up, watching As the World Turns, sipping latte's:lol2::lol2::lol2:

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

I didn't like the ICU at all when I shadowed there. The idea of knowing your two patients inside and out and seeing them day after day didn't do it for me. Maybe the ADON meant that she was looking for move variety in the patients seen? I agree that it is a weird way to phrase it in a getting to know you email.