I have been a nurse for 9 years total. LPN for 7.5, RN 2.5, I have worked the last 3 yrs on a telemetry medical floor. I always liked it here, but I knew from the beginning that my goal was to gain experience and leave for Emergency or ICU nursing. Well, I have advanced quite rapidly at my current job, I'm a charge nurse, a preceptor, ACLS certified, Tele certified and stuff like that. Lately I am quite bored with my tele unit. My nurse manager and I have become good friends, my best friend in the whole world is a nurse there with me and I like the hospital in general. It's a mid sized suburban hospital. Well, I applied a few times for a transfer to their ER, but decided at the last minute to stay with my floor, mostly out of guilt. Well, things have really gone down hill fast the last 5 months or so with staffing, morale and everything. I have a job offer at a HUGE ER in the nearby city. The pay is a little better, but not as much as I thought. Here's the dilemma, I'm nervous about the big city ER as my first, yet excited too. I'm afraid of going from one of the top nurses in my med/surg to being a nobody in the big hospital. I feel guilty turning my back on my friends at the current place, but I long to grow as a nurse as well. What would you do?? I know it's hard to advise someone when you don't really know the situation, but all the nurses around me are bias in their opinions. Thanks everyone!
after13 years of waiting for a bad situation to change to suit me I finally realize the insanity of sitting around and thinking doing nothing will change something bad to something good. Move on and find something that challenges you and makes you love what you do again. I'm taking my new found backbone and heading off to CRNA school.:monkeydance:
fronkey bean
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after13 years of waiting for a bad situation to change to suit me I finally realize the insanity of sitting around and thinking doing nothing will change something bad to something good. Move on and find something that challenges you and makes you love what you do again. I'm taking my new found backbone and heading off to CRNA school.:monkeydance: