Life is too short to be this stressed

This is why I went straight into psych. Med/surg SUCKS!!!!! I learned that during clinicals. Always hated the med/surg rotations, and tele is no different. Psych is the bomb, it's clean, very little charting, entertaining, and I have about 7 hrs. of downtime a shift. In fact I am at work now! We even have a bed set up if any of us needs to take a nap on night shift. And since most of the pts. are frequent fliers you REALLY get to know them well. My fellow nurses and the techs are all as crazy as I am (you need a warped sense of humor to work psych) and we all have a good time at work.

I want to work at that psych hospital. It isn't like that where I work, either of the psych places I have worked. There is more paperwork that med/surg, and we require our patients to have co-morbidity, so no "easy" patients.

To Gooey RN- I noticed from your post you are per deim. I am per deim now also. Are you getting any shifts,( cancellation), what speciality are you per deim in? I'm med/surg and tele but the agency is sending me to LTC- which I don't mind- it's a piece of cake compared to the hospital- more stable patient and not as much coming and going of the patients, are you agency or staff per deim( I am both and the staff per deim is a small speciality hospital and have been cancelled everytime since May, ) what area are you in, I'm near Phila and there is NOTHING.

I have not been cancelled yet, but some have been. I work in psych in a small hospital in NEPA. I only work 4 shifts a month, and they are on weekends, so I am sure they don't want to cancel me before I quit and they lose their weekend person.

The last place I worked who I am still in contact with, is a small hospital where I was doing med/surg. There have been no cancellations. They are still short staffed, but it is a rural area, not many nurses in the area...