Please help

[miksyrak3]

I graduaduated nursing school in May 2011 with my ASN and had a very difficult time finding a job. In September 2011 I accepted a position as a circulating nurse in an OR for an eye surgery center. It was not my dream job but it was a job and I was grateful for it. I have now been employed there for 1 1/2 yrs. My problem is that I do not feel like I am learning anything. Other than taking vital signs and charting I do not feel that I am using any of the skills that I learned in school. In addition, I did not have any real orientation. A girl that I went to school with got a job there 2wks before me and she is who trained me. The rest of my training was more of a sink or swim kind of thing. Throughout my time there we have had some more experienced nurses come and go and I was fortunate enough to learn some from them. . Anyway the majority of my nsg school friends are working in hospitals and using and perfecting all their skills and then some. I am so envious of them and I feel like they are "real" nurses and that I am not. I would like to try and get a job at a hospital but I am afraid that I don't have the right kind of experience to get one. I don't know what to do. Please help.