Bye Bye Floor Nursing

[Palliative Care, DNP]

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!

[monkeybug]

I loved being an L&D nurse, but I hated my job. If I had been allowed to just nurse, I'd still be doing it. But it seemed like every day management, administration, or JCAHO threw up a new hurdle. It was all the extraneous stuff, and the ridiculousness of management that forced me out. I get physically ill at the thought of having to go back to the hospital.

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

It's funny, because I so know the feeling of being trapped in a floor job. I remember when I used to gaze at the elevators and fantasize about getting in and never coming back, and that feeling of freedom when I got my casual outpatient job that I'm doing now. And here I am, applying for floor jobs! I'm being selective, though. I won't do neuro or Med/Surg, I won't do days, and I won't do big units. Yes, a small Med/Onc unit on nights might actually work for me. Congrats on getting out, though. I know it can feel like getting out of prison.

[OCNRN63, RN]

It's been so long since I worked on a med-surg unit; the last time was in '98 on a combined MS/peds unit. Nothing like the simultaneous screaming of 90 year olds and 9 month olds.... Ever since that I either worked home-care hospice, day surgery, ED, then outpatient oncology (the best).

I can't work patient care anymore, but I am working as I feel up to it for an online nursing site. It keeps my hands in nursing while still accommodating my physical limitations.

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

I loved being an L&D nurse, but I hated my job. If I had been allowed to just nurse, I'd still be doing it. But it seemed like every day management, administration, or JCAHO threw up a new hurdle. It was all the extraneous stuff, and the ridiculousness of management that forced me out. I get physically ill at the thought of having to go back to the hospital.

^^^^ this.....

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

When I lost my hospital job in a reorg (critical care clin spec) I was devastated, walked around in shock for weeks. I thought I'd do that forever, loved it, had a MN in it... but then I found myself what I thought would be a temp job in an entirely new field, formerly unknown to me, and it has led me to where I am now, smumblemumble years later. I would not be physically able to work the hospital life I did before and am now eternally grateful to the coworker who screwed me out of a job I loved. I am so much better off!

[serenity1]

I wish I could like this 100 times! "Loved being an L&D nurse, hated my job".