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and thank you for your input amzyRN. I have been told that it's good to wait it out and I will get more used to it eventually. I do enjoy a more fast paced environment. I've never worked on the floor but I always hated it in school. It is definitely the more critical care patients that I struggle with now, and with the acuity being so high here it's super stressing me out! Today I had a rapid afib with RVR back to back with a STEMI, then I was given three patients within an hour of each other being a blood transfusion, heparin drip, and ICU sepsis on levophed which I think is kind of ridiculous its just so overwhelming! I'm just used to getting a bunch of abdominal pains, chest pain, sob, etc pretty straightforward stuff. I probably will just try to keep pushing through though..

Yeah, it sounded amazing in theory until I realized its basically having three ICU patients half the time with an insane amount of documentation and none of them speak english, and you have to put pretty much all of the doctors orders in for them..its extremely time consuming and frustrating.

Hi..so this is my first post on here. I've been an ER nurse now for about 1.5 years and I have been questioning what I want to do with my life lately. This is all I wanted to do in nursing school but now that I'm doing it I'm not so sure. I worked in two hospitals on the east coast with no ratios, barely any breaks, and was extremely understaffed so I thought that those were my problems. I recently moved to California and work at a great hospital with a 1:3 ratio. I've been here since March. I love my coworkers and the company, but I still dread going to work. I constantly feel like I still don't know anything at all and am always anxious about what kind of patients are going to come through the door. We get a lot of really sick patients from Mexico that don't speak English and are noncompliant or have no access to their meds. I am wondering if I should go into a different field or stick it out? I know that 1.5 years is not a long time. I would just really appreciate any advice anyone has, like a kind of job that is similar but not so stressful or maybe someone's story as to how they got over this anxiety. I do love the thrill of the ER and saving lives and making people feel better but I also just can't handle it sometimes.. I also love travel and have been thinking about doing travel nursing but am worried I won't be able to handle it because I felt so thrown off starting this new job, I feel like I didn't know anything.. thank you for anyone's input! Also, just adding, I've tried searching things ER nurses should know and things like that to learn more and have had trouble finding much. If anyone knows any resources that would be great!