scnurse28

Thank y'all so much for the helpful comments!! Still no job bc my old manager has bad mouthed me to every hospital in the area just for leaving her unit. Hopefully ill figure something out! Just trying to stay positive

Help!! Someone help me please! I graduated from nursing school in Dec. of 09 and got my first job after a ton of waiting in March 10. This job was my only option because hospitals at this time were not hiring new grads. Well I learned A LOT on this floor BUT it was a terrible nursing environment. It was a GI med/surg floor specializing in gastric bypasses with the ocassional liver patients. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE. The job was beyond stressful due to inexperienced medical interns (this was a teaching hospital) and PCTs who refused to do their jobs and a manager who turned a blind eye to nurse's complaints. If is doesn't sound bad yet, imagine having downtime for maybe 5 minutes to hop on the computer and check your email, instead your coworkers are looking at job websites daily for a new job. The ONLY thing about this particular floor that kept me sane was the majority of my nurse coworkers. There was no time for bullying because we were all in hell everyday together and if we didn't have each other we had nothing. Literally, I would kindly ask my PCT to get a STAT EKG on a pt having chest pains and the PCT would reply "I don't have time, I'm getting routine vitals..." to which I would reply "STAT EKGs are more important than routine vitals" and the PCT said "well then I guess you better get on it then...". I'm sure you can imagine the choice words that are flying through my head. Anyways, I would get the STAT EKG if I wasn't in the process of medicating everybody and their brother with pain and nausea meds! AHHHHH.... Long story short, I left my job after one year because I simply could not take it anymore and I am no longer under contract so why not leave. I made the deicision to leave without lining up another job because my lovely manager threatened to give me a bad review if other managers within the hospital asked her about me... yea really professional I know. So I left. Now I am stuck... I want to start applying for a new job but what kind?? I do not want to be stuck with poop or psych patients because I simply can not handle psych. I have no ability to let other's problems roll of my back. I take them on to myself. ANY SUGGESTIONS? PLEASE I am desperate!