mrsrosstobe

Coolnurse42 - any update on your job? I am curious because I am facing a similar situation, and I hope things turned out ok for you.

You should stay at least a year if that is the program length. You were honest about your interest so maybe once its getting close to a year you can start looking for ICU openings. Good luck with the new job!

Thank you for the responses. I have taken the advice to heart and am trying to improve on my weaknesses. Beyond that, my concern was how my preceptor was twisting the truth to make me sound bad, such as the story mentioned above when I was talking to a doctor but she made it sound like I was on a personal call and I have never made a personal call and she knows it. I once typed up information for a patient and gave him the print out and I did so independantly. The patient's wife came up to me at the nurse's station later and thanked me for it. The educator was standing there too so I thought finally I can show her something positive but my preceptor says loudly "I'm glad you finally did what I told you to". She never told me to do so. I had decided on my own after having a conversation with the patient and realizing he doesn't know much about his condition. But it is her word against mine. My only defense is the truth but they def. believe my preceptor over me.

I used Kaplan (the classroom version not the online one) and thought it really helped.

I am a fellow new grad so I don't have experienced insight to give but I still want to offer support and say I'm sorry you have to go through this. It seems like a horrible and scary situation and I hope it works out or you can find a new job.

Hi allnurses community. I have been having issues with my preceptor and am wondering if this is common or if I'm just unlucky. I am a new grad in a busy Med/Surge Tele unit and am almost done with orientation. After the first few weeks my preceptor started to hardly ever supervise me. I thought this was a sign that she trusted me enough to leave me alone. Today I find out that she has been talking to the educator daily and telling her she thinks I can not be trusted to safely handle patients alone and that I have not made any progress since those first few weeks. She never made any indication of this before. When I have a question to ask her I can never find her because she just disappears. Once I realized she had even left the unit for almost a half hour without even telling me. If she can't trust me to safely handle patients then why does she leave me alone? I plan on asking her this when I next see her. I can't believe I am only just finding out that she thinks I am doing a bad job. Based on her rec I have been told I will fail my orientation unless I can prove a tremendous amount of progress in the next few weeks which I will have a different preceptor because mine doesn't want to precept me anymore. I tried to explain that I would have been changing if I had known I needed to but my preceptor has always told me she has no suggestions for me. Since my preceptor is in grad school she has to leave work right away at the end of the shift. We had agreed to both come in early once a week so we can have a quick chat about my progress (or lack of according to her). She never came early and always only showed up 5 mins before the shift starts so we don't have time to talk. My preceptor says she has repeatedly told me what I should work on and that I keep making all of the same mistakes. However, we have never actually had any discussion. If I ask for something I need to improve on she gives me a broad answer like "time management" or "seeing the big picture" never anything specific. Once I was talking to a physician on the phone and he asked me to hold. I was waiting for him to come back to the phone when my preceptor came up to me and asked me if I was done with my documenting yet. I said "no" and was going to explain further but then the doctor came back to the phone and started giving orders that I had to write down. I motioned to my preceptor that I needed a second. Later my preceptor told the educator I was giving her attitude and when she asked me a question I ignored her because I was chatting on the phone. I was irate when I heard this because getting orders is not "chatting on the phone". I told my preceptor why I was on the phone and she just asked why I hadn't done that earlier. Now I am in danger of failing orientation. It is my word against my preceptors and of course I will be the one presumed to be lying. If anyone else has had a similar situation I would love to hear how you handled it. Thnx.