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Thank you. I appreciate the support. Makes me feel a little more confident with what I am doing. ?

Thank you guys for your inputs! Sorry for late reply. I am trying to apply for a case management job within the same hospital. I've been working with my ICU position for 7 months and I am nervous and feel bad of quitting because they did train me for a couple months on this position. I am afraid they will say something bad about me quitting this position so early. I know people say to wait for a year and it will get better but I don't think I can wait for a few more months. I love the people and the management and even taking care of patients but I think I am just really burnt out of bedside nursing at this time. I just feel bad that it took me to feel like this not until I started this new position.

I have been thinking about this the past couple weeks and just needed to let it out and see if anyone can give me advice. I have been a nurse for about 6 years now. My family makes nursing sounds so great since I was young and because of that I feel like I never really thought that there are other career options more suitable for me. When I started working as a nurse, I didn’t necessarily love it. It wasn’t how I thought it would be. The high anxiety for 12 hours, worrying about time managment and balance between checking off the work lists and keeping my patients safe and comfortable and happy, short staffed, and being away from family long hours, weekends and holidays. I just feel like everything is sucking the happiness out of me. I tried working on different specialties such as psych, home health, rehab, med surg floor, and now ICU for 6months. I really thought I would finally find my niche and be happy to be finally an ICU nurse since that was originally my career goal. However, I feel like it makes me even more anxious going to work now and also switching from days to midnights makes me even more dreadful going to work. I just feel deppressed because I am at lost and don’t know what to do. Should I just stick it out for a year to gain that experience for better career opportunities in the future? Should I just leave bedside nursing all together and be a case manager, utilization review or nursing consultant? Maybe work in a clinic or procedural nurse? I just want to be happy and go to work without being so anxious and stress. Thanks for reading.

I just need some insight. I work as PRN nurse to a home health company. I feel bad today when my employer needed me to do admission on a new patient and declined it. I'm a fairly new grad nurse. I worked at an adult rehab for 3 months and transfer to home health after. I've been doing adult patients in this company for a couple months now. However, the patient that my employer is giving me is an infant that has g tube and so the family needs g tube teachings. I don't have experience with taking care of peds other than clinical rotation and also g tube feedings with infants and I honestly haven't seen how to set up the machine that they use to run feedings. My employer told me that it's just like the adults and to just look up the machine how to do it on YouTube. I told him that I am still not confident to do it . Is it bad that I declined it? Should I have just went ahead and do the admission based on what I see on the videos only? I just don't think it's fair and safe to do nursing care to a patient when I am not very knowledgeable of what I am doing and I haven't done it before.