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Not sure how to answer that. I've held a per diem job for 3 years that I just left in November because it was time to move forward, a FT job for 1 1/2 years prior to starting in the ED and I'm still there per diem (so total of 2 years there now), and I had one job that I've been on and off at depending on their needs for the past two years. I have had several jobs at the same time, but they have longevity. I just don't know how that looks on paper to see so many jobs with 3 years of experience. I'm more concerned that it would look like I'm burning the candle at both ends. The field is L&D.

I need some advice. I've been a nurse for 3 years, an ER nurse for 6 months and I hate it. I'm doing well and had a great review, love the management and leadership, but my coworkers are sharks and I feel like I'm standing in the middle of the road waiting for the bus to just come hit me. There's the typical cattiness that coworkers have pulled me aside and warned me is going on behind my back with a couple coworkers in particular, but then there's also the charge nurse who tries to drown me by giving me ridiculous patient assignments just to test me, like giving me 3 new patients at once and not telling me I have them but signing up my name next to them on the board, so by the time I sit down to document on a patient I see I have 3 more and have no idea how long it's been since they were brought back and they all need everything done at once...giving me an ESI 1 patient tubed and paralyzed with a GI bleed, with 7 meds going and other things I can't give details on because it would be too specific who is really circling the drain, with 3 other patients who are all admissions (DKA and hypotensive, confused GI bleed, and PNA) My coworkers helped me to task some of the things they needed, but it was still up to me to document everything, q15 minute vitals, give them meds, and call report. It made me feel like a crappy nurse because I could only give everyone else the bare minimum, one of my patients was still in agony, and I didn't have a chance to organize their admission paperwork and documentation before they went to their units. Anyway, any other nurse with an ESI 1 patient always gives up their other patients to the charge nurse to focus on the critical patient...you would think this would be the case, seeing as this was my first critical patient I've been responsible for. This nurse constantly micromanages, makes snotty irrelevant remarks, gives me flat out wrong advice, and everything they tell me is the opposite of what needs to happen or what I should be doing. I usually ignore it or stand my ground, but it's getting old fast. For the first time ever one shift recently I felt like my nursing license was at risk. All of this is making me feel like ER is not really where I want to be anyway. I have always been passionate about two fields, and the more I work this one the more I realize my love for the other. Is it too early to move on? Would it look bad to try and explain this on a resume for the job field I'm thinking of pursuing? Should I suck it up and stay for a few years to not look like a job hopper? They told me when I started that nurses generally don't last more than a few months on this shift, and now I can see why. The only ones left are the clique that runs people off. I've been determined to come in, keep my mouth shut, give the best care I can and go home, but it's becoming really hard to. So stay and deal with it for another year, or run and try to explain why I only have 6 months in and already want to change fields? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for getting through this long-winded post.