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

[NurseLoveJoy88]

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 ?

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Sunny, but you are "different" aren't you? The ICU nurses I know say they LIKE working there because most patients are too sick (or are vented) to talk. They know that once a patient gets all chatty requesting this or that, they are no longer sick enuf to remain on the floor - time to d/c.

Maybe she is just social, and would rather have "talkies."

-just kidding

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

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:

I love your sick sense of humor.:yeah: I'm like that too.

[CC-RN-EMTP]

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

This! Sorry but your new ADON sounds like a twit.

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

It was an eror in judgement, but she may have been genuinely bored and in search of a new venue.

[leslie :-D]

i guess i'm seeing it differently...

that she's new, sent an email as an introduction, and some background.

*shrugs*

i wish her well.

leslie

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

i guess i'm seeing it differently...

that she's new, sent an email as an introduction, and some background.

*shrugs*

i wish her well.

leslie

Same sentiment I had...

[sevensonnets]

I think Sunny California RN works where I do. Yep, it's boring all right sitting around watching ATWT and sipping lattes. Sometimes we watch Jerry Springer to liven it up a bit. Vents watch themselves you know. It's so boring in ICU I've just kept going back day after day after day now for nearly 32 years....

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

LMAO! Love it!:redpinkhe:yelclap::hug::rotfl:

[canchaser, BSN, RN]

I did my bath at 0300 so I could watch Oprah. LOL.

[leslie :-D]

I did my bath at 0300 so I could watch Oprah. LOL.

heh.

i cancelled an important dr's appt tomorrow, when i heard that the cast of roseanne (reunion, yes!) will be on oprah.

as in nsg, life is about our priorities.:)

leslie

[TygRNoef]

I have never worked in the ICU, but I currently work in LTC, and the staffing levels where I work are abysmal. We spend most of our days just trying to keep our heads above water, and when something happens, it means a lot of things just don't get done. Maybe your new ADON loves that feeling and hates working somewhere where staffing levels are adequate? It's really just a guess, as I've never worked in an ICU, my only ICU experience was the rotation I did through one as a student.

[linearthinker, DNP, RN]

I think some are jumping to conclusions. Perhaps she meant she found the lack of interpersonal relationships with patients boring. I preferred it that way b/c I didn't especially want to talk to pts, lol, and I preferred them sedated and intubated. ;-) Some nurses do like to bond with people and many find the highly technical aspect boring. Now I'm just specualting. If you really want to know, ask her.