nursebb1

I know exactly how you feel. I also passed NCLEX in July and started working as a nurse in ICU. I worked as an aide in the unit for a little over a year. This is why I decided to stay in ICU. I have been on orientation for 8 weeks and in that time have had 13 different preceptors. They hired 8 new grads at the same time so our manager said we could not have just one preceptor. I feel having more than 2 or 3 is a disservice to new grads. When we have that many preceptors it is hard for the nurses to know what we have been taught and what we haven't. I feel like I just get thrown to the wolves some days. I am looking for another position in the hospital I currently work at. I have also put in an application at another hospital, but they wanted me to work ICU. I wanted to cry because I want out of ICU. Hang in there, I know we can both stay in nursing and find an area we are happy with.

I am only three weeks into my first job as an RN. I worked in ICU as a PCA for over a year and I thought that is where I wanted to work as an RN because I loved the people I work with. I am afraid I have made a horrible mistake. I feel totally incompetent to care for critically ill patients. IN nursing school I absolutely loved being in the NICU and Pediatrics, but was afraid to work there because I was afraid I would become too attached to my patients. Now I wonder if the dread for going to work is because I am a new nurse trying to learn the profession or because I chose the wrong area. I'm afraid three weeks is not enough time to know, yet I feel I do not have and am not getting the proper training to be able to take care of critically ill patients. In three weeks I can honestly say I have only had one good day. I have yet to be assigned the same preceptor or the same patients two days in a row. I wonder should I try to look somewhere else, or am I being too hasty in wanting to change positions? Please send some advice.

Hello, I am working as a PCA in ICU at a local hospital. I graduate with my ADN in May. I have just accepted a RN position in the same unit I work in now. I have worked there for a year and love my job. I am extremely nervous about taking on the RN role. Any advice for my transition from PCA to RN would be greatly appreciated.