I have been a registered nurse for a little over a year and completed my first year of nursing as a nurse graduate in emergency . I have since been working in a day stay and admissions unit and have undertaken an interview for a PACU nursing internship. I am really interested in theater nursing however i found that I got burnt -out towards the end of my first year because of the stresses of working with critical patients in ed and being continuously flat out. While I have some idea of what PACU entails, and I enjoy being busy , yet I am concerned about possible stresses like I encountered in ed. I thought I would try and use a forum to get other nurse's perspectives and advice. Any comments would help. Thank you.