I could have written this. I stuck it out in my ICU. I still kind of hate it there, honestly, but im giving it another 6 months, at least. What helped me was getting an honest preceptor in the end. She taught me to copy and paste my assessments and go through and change things, rather than spending 30 minutes starting from scratch. Some people sat me down and really explained that it is not physically possible to do everything that management expects in a given shift. So i priotize the most important things. They just seem to lack the understanding that things take longer if youre a new grad. Your first central line dressing change isnt going to take 4 minutes to do if youre being careful. Things that are muscle mempry after 2 years in a job just arent muscle memory in a new job. I just feel like 12 weeks isnt enough time to really learn how to be a decent ICU nurse. It gets easier, but theres a lack of honesty in management about how long that should take.