Bye Bye Floor Nursing

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Guest343211

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I have left the world of floor nursing! It is like the clouds parted with light beaming down. I'm now only focusing on my grad program. Just 5 semesters left in my BSN to DNP. I detested every minute of the drive through experience that is floor nursing. Sometimes people really need to hear No!

Good luck in your future endeavors. Everything you have learned you will carry with you. Some things may get a little rusty, but they do come right back to you if they were built on a strong foundation. It's wrong when people say you won't be effective b/c you forgot thus and such. If you learn nursing and insights and skills to specific areas, what every gets a little vague comes right back, just as strong as before, with in very short time. Big difference between having strong experience and the curve of new-learning. Some HR and mgt people really don't get that.

But anyway, you will use a lot of what you learned--and will only help you as a DNP. Good luck and the best to you!

rntransplant

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I worked as a floor nurse for first 8 years of my career. I had wonderful times, but they were hard times. After leaving and finding hospice/home health for the past 8 years of my career, life has been a breeze! I could never go back!

Specializes in Peds Med/Surg; Peds Skilled Nursing.

Congrats....i cannot wait to quit my floor nursing job when I graduate later this year.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Lub Dub yes I will be able to sit for the FNP boards when I graduate. Don't feel sorry for me. I just never liked bedside nursing at all. I discourage my children from being nurses. I think nursing is a thankless job with unrealistic work conditions in a hospital setting.

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BostonFNP, APRN

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
Lub Dub yes I will be able to sit for the FNP boards when I graduate. Don't feel sorry for me. I just never liked bedside nursing at all. I discourage my children from being nurses. I think nursing is a thankless job with unrealistic work conditions in a hospital setting.

Wait till your an NP ;)

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

My ultimate goal is my own minute clinic in my husband's pharmacy. We will see after I have a few years experience :)

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BostonFNP, APRN

2 Articles; 5,581 Posts

Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
My ultimate goal is my own minute clinic in my husband's pharmacy. We will see after I have a few years experience :)

Spend some time with good support. Your first few years will need it, but a great goal!

Nurse ABC

437 Posts

I'm leaving floor nursing too. I went back to it after many, many years and hung in there for a year. Although I did really enjoy getting to really use my nursing skills again, I'm just too tired and stressed all the time to keep it up any longer. Life is too short to be that stressed all the time!

Specializes in PCCN.

congrats !

I look forward to a day when there will be no more bed alarms,drug seekers/overdosers, rediculous expectations, stress, corporate mentality

Specializes in Addictions/Mental Health, Telemetry.

I agree with you elekrisk564! There have to be SOME nurses out there who do not hate hospital nursing! My goodness, who will take care of all of us in the future when we get sick if nobody wants to work in the hospitals?? I don't hate hospital nursing. I loved cardiac telemetry and ICU. I just feel I got too old for the physical demands of the job and now work in psych nursing. Now there's a fun job!!

Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.
I agree with you elekrisk564! There have to be SOME nurses out there who do not hate hospital nursing! My goodness who will take care of all of us in the future when we get sick if nobody wants to work in the hospitals?? I don't hate hospital nursing. I loved cardiac telemetry and ICU. I just feel I got too old for the physical demands of the job and now work in psych nursing. Now there's a fun job!![/quote']

I love floor nursing. Always have. I love being the one thats there to meet the pt's immediate needs, be it a nursing skill or something as simple as comforting the pt. I love being able to educate a pt on their health and medications, and those times I have a pt that actually wants to learn I really enjoy. I love being the one to catch subtle changes in a pt. Sometimes I have Pt's I don't like, be it their behavior or attitude, but I don't let them ruin it for me.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, I am not a new grad. I have been a nurse for 5 years, worked in different types of floors and enjoyed all of it.

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Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN

11,304 Posts

Obviously there are nurses who like their jobs bedside. I think this thread is getting looks from those of us who put in our time and have found other things.

I worked 9 years on the floor and while I do miss working in our small town ER, I did work in a big town ER and what I missed there was what you just described, caring more personally for the patient, teaching them, helping them find services outside the hospital. In that busy ER, there is no way for a nurse to do that. You "treat them and street them" . .. .or turf them to another dept.

We had a surprise baby in our 40's when our 3 other kids were almost out the door. I want to have a job that allows me time to be with him because I know how fast his childhood will go as I've already experienced that. I want freedom and that's hard to have when you work every other weekend and routinely say yes to overtime because of short-staffing. For me, going back to work on the floor isn't the place I want to be.

But, our hospital is staffed with great nurses who love their jobs (for the most part). And I'm grateful for that.

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