JahbingRN

Thank you guys so much. Your replys mean so much to me. I am going to try to hang in there really. I just pray and hope that it works out.

Hi I am a new nurse. I went through an orientaion in a critical care program, which lasted for 8 weeks. This consisted of classroom and clinical time in CCU. After finishing my training I oriented on a tele floor and a respiratory floor, both 2 weeks each. Finally I went to my home floor (tele/stepdown). In nursing school and the CCU program I excelled theory wise, but whenever it came to practicum/clinical I always felt ovewhelmed. Now that I am on my home floor (tele/stepdown) I only have 2 weeks of preceptorship before I go on my own. I feel that I have not progresses since I started, I feel like I lose it when I get overwhlemed and my confidence, esteem and everything are in the bucket. I know management is thinking that with the training I had, I should be at a certain level. I am starting to think I selected the wrong career. I love the theory of nursing and want to be a good nurse. I pray to God everynight and everyday I go to work to give me competence, courage and confidence. I feel so disorganized, forgetful and slow. I forget to sign things off, I've staamped the wrong pt's name, I overlook things and the list goes on. My preceptors always have to help me at the end of the day, in order for me to catch up. I swear everyone around me are so fast, I stand out. I honesty feel that they are going to end up firing me or I will end up quitting. I came home the other night and I cried so much I thought I was going to pass out. I am starting to think that maybe I need to see a therapist, maybe I suffer from anxiety... I don't know. Do you think that is normal? Is there another area of nursing I can do without the extreme environment as a hospital. Please, reply.

Wow, I must have been tired. I see, now, that I missed have of my sentence. However, you understood that I took boards and passed. Now, my areas of interest are med-surg tele or cardiovascular step-down. I actually live in Broward (miramar), but I don't know much about the broward hospitals....help!

Hi Guys, Just tooks, hooray, I passed! Question, what hospitals do you recommend in the Miami area, in terms of pay and training?

I am a new nurse graduate who have taken boards and passed. My ultimate goal is to obatin a position on a CCU. At this time I don't feel I am ready to a take that Plunge, so I have accepted a position in a pre and post procedure unit, where I did my praticum. This unit primarily deals with patients who are post cardiac cath, angiogram, liver biopsy, parancetesis and so on. The floor is also an overflow unit, they accept patients from ICU and ER who are not quite ready for the floor (step down).The orientaion and training will be the same as CCU's. I will be ACLS certified upon completion. I am very nervous and anxious about this position, mostly becasue of what I have read from experinced nurses on this website, they all seem to say the same thing, "DO 1 YEAR OF MED-SURG FIRST". I worked part-time as a PCT on a ortho/neuro medsurg floor, my last year in nursing school and I loved the floor, but I really wanted to specialize in cardiac nursing.......... So my question is, "do you think I am making the right decision to work on this unit instead of completing med-surg first for 1 year?"

I am a new nurse graduate who have taken boards and passed. My ultimate goal is to obatin a position on a CCU. At this time I don't feel I am ready to a take that Plunge, so I have accepted a position in a pre and post procedure unit, where I did my praticum. This unit primarily deals with patients who are post cardiac cath, angiogram, liver biopsy, parancetesis and so on. The floor is also an overflow unit, they accept patients from ICU and ER who are not quite ready for the floor (step down).The orientaion and training will be the same as CCU's. I will be ACLS certified upon completion. I am very nervous and anxious about this position, mostly becasue of what I have read from experinced nurses on this website, they all seem to say the same thing, "DO 1 YEAR OF MED-SURG FIRST". I worked part-time as a PCT on a ortho/neuro medsurg floor, my last year in nursing school and I loved the floor, but I really wanted to specialize in cardiac nursing.......... So my question is, "do you think I am making the right decision to work on this unit instead of completing med-surg first for 1 year?"