Unsure of what my options are

[sw0495]

My hospital has recently changed to accepting primarily adolescents, partnering with CPS to act as a placement facility for teens who have trouble finding placement due to severe behavioral problems. I have found this shift....challenging, as someone who wants to work with primarily the voluntary adult population. 

I am currently in the process of trying to find a new job that is more aligned with my career interests, but as I haven't even been a nurse for a full year yet my options are limited and I have been rejected from most hospitals I have applied to without so much as an interview. 

 

So, it is looking like I may still have to be at this job for a while. I am looking for advice as to what I can request to try to make things more bearable for myself without seeming unreasonable. I know I will not be placed on one of the 2 remaining adult units because there are 2 senior nurses on them who would quit if made to work with adolescents/pedis. They had been placing me on a unit with teen boys and I was just starting to get adjusted working with them and into a rhythm when they suddenly started placing me on a teen girl unit due to, well, no other nurses being willing to work that unit. I want to be seen as flexible, but this unit is ROUGH. The girls are extremely defiant and I honestly feel as though I cannot control them, and that I am just constantly placating or catering. It is highly overwhelming. 

 

Due to this I really do not want to be placed on this unit any longer but fear I will be again due to being one of the only nurses who goes where I am assigned and does not complain. 

 

Is it acceptable for me to request to be placed back on the previous teen boy unit again? Or would that be seen as being inflexible? Thank you! 

[areason4stars, ASN, RN]

If you are the nurse with the least amount of seniority I would think you might just be stuck but  it also doesn't hurt to talk to your supervisor and request avoiding a unit or working a particular unit.