ChrissyRN13

I am currently a new RN, who has about 6 months experience on a Med-Surg unit. So to be completely honest, I AM OVER IT! I love my patients and what I do, its the disregard from higher ups that I dont like. My hospital is currently building two more floors even though we are severely understaffed and by understaffed, I mean my co-worker has had 9 patients, another nurse had close to 14 before they sent someone to help her. My hospital dont care about how that affects the nurses. In nursing school my instructor always drilled in our heads, its easy to get another job, its hard to get your license back if you lose it and that if we feel an assignment is unsafe just say no. At this point Im exhausted with having 6-7 patients with NO AIDE. So Im interested in doing something else, like OR nursing. So my question to all the OR nurses out there, what are the pros and cons of being a OR nurse?