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This. So much this. My hospital network has been trumpeting the horn of "for the motherland" type emails, going on about how "we're going to get through this together!", but has been suspiciously quiet about childcare options, what will happen if we become infected while treating infected, etc. Their silence on their support of us is absolutely deafening and extremely scary.

There's no pediatrics in this hospital, but I wouldn't mind ED experience and I hear that's good for FNP work. This is kinda the boat I'm in. I want the experience this unit will offer, but I also know that the drama isn't worth it. What I'm considering is seeing how things go over the next month and determine from there, largely because it is such a massive unit with so many nurses and beds. I know that part of the reason they keep people like my old preceptor is because they have a substantial turnover rate between nurses going back to school and burn out, but I also definitely agree that keeping those kinds of people is a detriment to the unit as a whole.

Eventually FNP school. Thinking I'd like to work in pediatrics.

Hi all! To give background to the topic title question, I'm a new nurse who got their first position in a large ICU in a big city. My orientation started off well enough, but quickly devolved into my preceptor beating me down, writing terrible reviews, and general nastiness towards me, as well as talking behind my back with others the minute I wasn't within earshot (or so they thought). Things finally exploded and I was reassigned a few weeks back, but since then the gossiping and general mean girl garbage has continued. My manager is aware of the situation and is trying, from what I can tell, very hard to hold on to both parties. While it's easy enough to avoid my previous preceptor on such a large unit (we have over 60 beds), the gossiping about me and with my confidence has hit an all-time low, I'm now wondering if it would be worth it to transfer off before I'm 'advised' to look elsewhere in hopes of keeping the more experienced, but toxic, nurse. I'm not married to being in the ICU as my long-term goals don't really require ICU experience, but I wanted to jump right in and learn as much as I could right out of school and love the ICU experience. The commute does kinda suck though. Being new to the field, I'm not sure what to do. Is ICU experience incredibly wanted experience no matter what I do in the future? Is it okay to just move on so soon?