optimistic92

Thank you guys for taking the time to respond! They do have a full time position open here in our ED department. I have been considering going to management as I don't want to continue miss possible opportunities or waste there time.

Hello everyone! I am new here to this forum, literally just discovered it's exsistence. Just wondering if there is anyone out there that has made the switch from the OR to the ED and advice? Advice from any ER nurses is welcome though! I am still a relatively new RN (almost 2 years now). I spent a year and a half doing floor nursing at a small community hospital and the past couple of months working in the operating room at a level 1 trauma center. I am still in the orientation process and while I do enjoy seeing the surgeries I am quickly coming to the realization that I have made a big mistake. I didn't realize just how much I would miss the patient interaction, treatments, and doing assessments. I'm disappointed in myself being that I felt I did plenty of research before making the switch and even observed and I still feel like I didn't realize what it would be until I actually got the job. While I admire everything that nurses in the OR it just isn't the type of nursing I want to do (nothing personal). I don't want to feel like I am hopping from job to job, but I also still have that urge to do something more critical and challenging and I don't want to lose the skills I have learned already from floor nursing. I want to feel like I am making a difference and saving lives. Right now I don't. Sorry for the rant.