sjyRN replied to emotionally_exhausted's topic in Critical
I wonder if we work in the same ICU! I have been feeling what your feeling since March when half my ICU became COVID. I finally had enough and sent a text to my manager saying I can't take it anymore. I have been working in a non-covid ICU for a mont...
Hi I'm a nurse with 1 year of ICU experience (Started right as COVID was starting up) with a ICU internship before graduating. ( So been in the same ICU since Aug. 2019) I work Night Shift in a cardiac/ COVID ICU and I applied for an Evening Shift PA...
No I don't, but I do feel like a burden by being new. Like everyone is helpful and nice but I feel like I'm too dependent on them. I worry if I leave and go to a new unit or hospital the staff will be upset that I have almost a year experience and st...
Thanks guys! I keep researching other jobs, mostly away from bedside. I keep reminding myself I'm not trapped even though I feel like it. I just feel so incompetent that I can't see myself transferring to another unit and embarrassing myself all over...
I graduated in December 2019, passed my NCLEX in January 2020 and started working the week after passing. Got 2 weeks of orientation and here I am in my 7th month of Nightshift ICU nursing. I hate it. I'm depressed. I'm exhausted. I feel like an idi...
