Wanting to quit new job. New grad on Orientation. Need Advice

[bella1234]

I have a problem... I am a new grad orienting for three weeks so far at a pretty well known hospital on the med surg unit.

I started last week on the floor with a preceptor who did not seem like she wanted to teach or work. She does not do assessments on her patients, check on them unless they call for her. She had taught me that there was no need of assessments because the previous nurse had already did it and from the report given they seem stable. She sits around and copy and paste from the previous nurses assessment throughout the day on the computer. With medication administration, she taught me to save time by compiling all the meds from her patients in one large container, scan the sticker from their charts and then go to the room to give it to them. I asked her if there was a timeframe of giving medications to the patients and she says one hour, but to not worry if it is late because it is easily modified on the computer. For the last 3 days on the unit, I have been sitting with her at the nurses station while she browses on the internet. There was a couple of patients who wetted themselves and called for her, she would tell the secretary to call the CNA to go and clean it up. There were many times I had told her I would like to go and clean the patient up but she refused, telling me it is the CNAs job. I see the CNAs busting their butts off trying to catch up with the amount of patients they have. I want to help them but if my preceptor says no I have to listen to her because she is the one who will be giving me a overall evaluation at the end of my orientation.

I guess it is not only my preceptor that is the problem but also the other nurses there as well. They all questioned me on why I want to work on their floor and told me that I will regret it. During my interview, I specifically asked the DON what is the nurse to patient ratio and she said it was 1:5. When I saw my nurse having 7 patients, I questioned her as to why she has 7 instead of 5. She said that it is normal and usually she would have 9-10 patients.

There are many other things that I've seen on this unit that are unethical in so many ways but I am not going to go into detail as I do not want to be discovered just in case one of the nurses browse this forum.

I worked hard for my license, and I feel as though I am going to jeopardize it if I stay. The problem to this is that I really do not want to burn any bridges with the hospital just in case I decide to return but to a different unit.

I guess my question is; how do I go about quitting without burning any bridges?

Please Advise.

Thank you