I have been reading treads for the last few months and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed that Telemetry seems to be the type of floor nursing that sucks the most? I realize that ICU and stepdown units are hard and you have to think a lot, but it just seems to me that telemetry nursing has the highest turn over. I work telemetry and there are honestly 3 or 4 women out of a group of 20 who actually like their job. The rest of us are constantly trying to figure out a way to get a different job.
I have friends who work in L&D, Oncology, Pediatrics, the NNICU, and ICU and we all started on our chosen floors as new grads. We all agree that initially the responsibility of being in control of someone's health was a very large problem for us when we started on our floors and that anxiety ran rampent because of it, but I'm still feeling overwhelmed while my friends are not. Of course I'm doing TONS better now than I was 10 months ago, but I still feel like I see more nurses who 'hate' telemetry than any other floor setting I know. I chose to go to a telemetry unit because my friends that worked ER said it was the place to start if you wanted to go to ER nursing.
What are the opinions out there? Are there any managers out there or anyone with statistics that can verify this assumption? And for those in the ER, is telemetry the best place to start if you are wanting to be an ER nurse?
