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I used to work as a pain champion on a medsurg unit and was part of the pain committee at the hospital. I'm not sure if your hospital already has a fully committee dedicated to pain but that would be very helpful. The committee had a nurse from every unit designated to keep track of pain management on the unit by educating their fellow nurses regarding pain and different interventions beside the usual pain medications. The committee met each month and discussed outcomes and feedback from nurses. after our meetings, we'd all visit a unit that wasn't our own and interview patients regarding how their pain was controlled. We had a lot of work to do but our scores as a whole improved :)

Hi, I got hired in the perinatal unit at my hospital and have been working in postpartum for now and am required to transfer to labor and delivery. I love my mothers and babies, but the unit management and the idea of transferring to labor and delivery isn't the right fit for me. The rush of labor and delivery isn't something I'm cut out for. The hospital I work for has an infertility clinic that I was looking into. Does anyone have any insite on how the job might be. I'm looking for a more structured position that still includes some aspect of maternity outpatient. thanks in advance :)

It's the perinatal unit. I can handle the postpartum aspect but I don't think labor and delivery high risk (my coworkers call it the women's ER) is for me. The unit requires everyone to do both.

I really appreciated your post! It helped ease some of the worry I was feeling. I'll definitely check out that book!

I'm glad it worked out for you. Did you tell the manager of your old unit before applying to other units?

So I just need some advice! I currently have 2 years of RN experience. I started off on a medsurg unit as a new grad and worked there for 1.5years. I was in great standing with my unit. I was part of various counsels and won my first nursing award. After my year and a half, I decided to transfer to what I thought would be my dream unit (speciality), within the same hospital. Ive now been working on this unit for 6 months. I initially loved this new unit but now I just feel like it isn't a good fit for me. I'm not functioning well according to management. They believe I'm too quiet and timid. I've always been more on the quiet introverted side but I never considered myself to be an unsafe nurse. Management takes my quietness as potentially being unsafe. They refuse to advance me to further training with the cohort I got hired with and even excluded me from the training classes. It's been 6 months and theyre barely telling me this now while I asked and asked to be advanced before. I feel like they should have told me earlier so I couldve improved on what needed to be improved. Instead now I'm singled out from my cohort and I've just been feeling miserable and inadequate. Besides being singled out, I now feel I'm not cut out for this speciality. I'm really unhappy on this unit and feel like I don't fit in with my coworkers at all. I feel like an outcast. I never thought I would miss medsurg but I guess I miss it because I had amazing coworkers. I feel lost and disappointed with the situation because I wanted to go back to school based on this specialty unit. I called HR and they said I can transfer and just to apply to other units with openings. I'm considering PTU or GI clinic (I used to work as a part-time RN at a GI clinic outside the hospital setting). I was wondering what I can possibly say as to why I left my unit just after 6months and if that looks bad for me.