I Miss LTC

[SuesquatchRN]

I miss:

The autonomy. NURSING home means the nurses run it, pretty much.

Relationships with my residents.

Not being called off for low census. Being valued.

Being a boss.

Not being a waitress.

No drug-seekers admitted for a week-long whine fest of undiagnosable back pain and morphine. I can't stand the drug-seekers. I don't care if you wanna get high but not on my shift. I am not here to throw every drug and potentiator at you while you drool, ask for a Coke and rate your pain a 10 while changing the channel to Judge Judy from Dr. Phil.

Meh. I'm wondering if I'm really cut out to be a nurse at all.

[pockunit, ADN, RN]

. . . am required to hang around on stand-by with no pay but ready to go in should they need me. I don't think so.

Unexpected knitting time?

I think I may go to hospice. I am probably well suited to that by temperment and belief system.

I hope to end up working hospice too. I agree, I think there's a certain personality that works well there.

[Jolie, BSN]

Getting paid with PTO is not a perk. It is your employer forcing you to take your hard earned vacation for their financial benefit, not for your rest and relaxation as it is intended, and for which it is earned.

[caliotter3]

When did you move to TX? That is quite a change. Glad you like it there.

[Munch]

Wow my hospital has the complete opposite problem in terms of being on call. We are ALWAYS short handed so if anyone wants to move to NY I am sure you'll get a job in a New York minute...full time with benefits and you will NEVER have to be on all, I don't think where I work knows the meaning of on call.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Commuter, I am north of Dallas, near the Texoma area. I work in Sherman, live 15 miles north of Melissa. We came here for a grandchild.

:)

[IdrilRN, BSN, RN]

I love LTC too, and missed it when I started working psych. So I got a per diem job so I have the best of both worlds. We don't get called off on the night shift in the hospital, the other shifts do though.