Calicokitty8

Hi everyone. Thank you for visiting this forum. Little background I started out my very 1st job in the ER. Unfortunately due to bullying, not being taught by my preceptor I was forced to move to an acute care unit where I work on a ortho trauma floor. Going to the floor was very eye opening and very helpful however im burnt out and I feel like I can handle ER now. So I reached out to the manager at the other ER location as I am not ready to go back to the one I started in. I need ideas/ examples of what to say. How do I explain the reason I left the ER In the first place without it sounding negative. I don't wanna tell then I had to move because the staff bullied me but if I say I got overwhelmed instead then im worried they won't think im a good candidate. How would you go about talking to the manager about this and making it clear and concise. When I spoke to HR I was like studdering so if you have any advice please drop them below. Thanks!.

Hey! It is very common to want to explore other options. You have done more than 6 months and if you in a enviornment you feel you don't belong, and have a drive for the ED, I would definitely look into transferring or even doing a trial period. my hospital lets us do a 2 week trial period before fully making the switch. I don't know if your hospital will let you do ER PRN, some places have strict policies in place for the areas you work in. I would have loved to do the same thing and I asked and my manager said there was no way for me to stay on my ortho floor and do ER. I do however think that starting in med/surg before going to ER was smart. I started in the ER, sadly my hospital didn't have a supportive program and I was bullied out, those nurses who came from the floor were the nurses I wanted to be and those who I looked up to. I think if you feel there is a calling to it, see if you can work with your manager or the ED manager and see if you can trial some shifts to see if this is a place you belong. I am currently going through the same thing, I want to go back but im scared. good luck!

Hi I recently got offered a position as a mobile IV nurse. I was curious if there are other nurses on this site that does this as well and would like to hear their feedback. I do like how flexible it is and the perks of making extra money. I really enjoy doing IVs and since being on the floor a year ago at my current job I have barely gotten to do them anymore. I used to do Ivs daily when I worked in the ER, however I was bullied pretty badly and have a lot of trauma about going back. my current job offers the best benefits and theres not alot of other places with good benefits like them near me. My biggest concerns with this mobile IV job is, is it safe? Is there risks to my license, they said that all the clients have thier own Dr that they go through so they have standing orders. I just don't want to hurt myself early in my career. I also wonder if the money is worth is. I was hoping that if I could do enough ivs to cover one shift then I can drop down to 2 nights a week with ivs spread out the rest of the week. I already feel like my current job takes up alot of my time and if I got to 2 nights a week that I could have more time to do other things and overall be productive during the day. those who do mobile ivs what are the pros and what are the cons?

I don't have a answer for you unfortunately. however I wanted to say that is so cool that your wanting to do that, I am trying to get into vascular access but don't know where to start and im only a year in on a ortho truama unit

Thank you. Sadly I didn't have a choice but move. Once they realized that I wasn't making enough progress they put me with a new preceptor and she said that I could have definitely made it but I got screwed over. She even offered to redo my orientation so I could be successful and management said no.

I don't know where else to share this too and I have a really hard time asking for help at work. I'm starting to wonder if I chose the wrong major. I keep questioning is nursing really for me. 6 months into being a nurse has been one of the most traumatic times of my life. I want to like my job and enjoy what I do but I'm starting to realize more and more things of this job that's getting hard for me to handle. I started off in the ED. I enjoyed the work however as a new grad I struggled to grasp everything and needed to get some more experience under my belt. Also I was bullied by my preceptors and my managers. Leaving the ED was HARD. I felt like I had failed and that I was moving onto something I didn't wanna do which was bedside. Someone at my work made a comment saying that acute care nurses were stupid compared to critical care and this has not left my brain. I'm now on a ortho trauma unit that's also medsurg and I have enjoyed my time as my coworkers are so sweet and supportive. Now that I'm on my own I can't help but feel this overwhelming feeling of guilt and shame. I feel like I'm not doing enough and that im a *** nurse. I work nights so most of my patients are sleeping. I have nights where I am super busy and I can't sit down and others where I am caught up and can help others. Lately I feel like I feel like I made a mistake by becoming a nurse. I moved out of the er within a week and started orientation as soon as I moved then was on orientation for about 4 weeks finally on my own by second week of April. At first I felt like I was doing fine with it and I continue to complete all my tasks on time. I'm scared to get higher acuity patients because I feel like I'll fail. I try and imagine myself in many different scenarios to try to practice and create a plan. I know that many skills and the nursing process gets easier with experience which I keep telling myself I just have to get the experience. Is the first year really this hard or is it just me? Does it get better? If so how? Would having skills and experience make it easier for me? Im hopeless and I feel like I chose the wrong career. I've dreamed about being a nurse since I was a child and now that it's here I have never been so unhappy. I don't know what to do. I know I'll keep working my job as I need a min of one year experience to transfer anywhere. But is anyone else struggling with this. I have never felt so alone

I was going to apply for the November cohort last year but they closed it before I could apply. However I may travel nurse there once I have enough experience!

are they already hiring for august? that was fast. I applied last year but took a job else where, I was thinking of applying for their new grad program but I would rather just transfer in.

Literally going through this right now. Except I wasn't even given a chance to be successful. My lack of progress was due to nurses not wanting to teach me. I was thrown around from preceptors and everyone had their own way of doing things so I would get yelled at for doing something wrong that was right to someone else. I'm now working on the inpatient unit and I don't enjoy it at all. But I don't have a choice it's that or a quit and I don't have anywhere else to go.