Do you miss the bedside?

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How long did you work at the bedside before switching (to home health, case management, procedure area, clinic...etc)?

Do you miss being at the bedside? What have been the upsides for you since leaving? Are there disadvantages?

It's not a HW question, I'm almost a year in and feeling burned out lately :confused:

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Well, I spent 14 years in the hospital at the bedside. Now in an outpatient clinic.

No I don't miss beside nursing. Not one whit.

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Spent 2 years at bedside, 1st year as an extern, 2nd as an RN in a residency program then placed on a surgical floor.

I went to HH after that for the regular work hours that lined up better with my personal life. Have since made commensurate wages and built a satisfying career over 20 yrs in both HH case management and management.

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Been at the bedside to many years. I tolerated a lot over the years. It never got easier, things just keep on being piled on top. It came to a tipping point. For me, us nurses working ICU had a issue with a rate a pay being taken away when signing up for overtime. That's ok, but then to be expected to continue to sign up?

The CNO had a meeting with all ICU nurses basically in an attempt to squash us into compliance and put us in our place. When the comment by the CNO stated; Nurses are NOTHING more then part of the room charge. It was adios amigos. I went into travel nursing and back to school and became a FNP. Looking back I should of did that 10 years earlier than I did because you can't fix broken and hospitals are broken.

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