I am so sad and feel like a part of me is missing. I resigned my position as HH RN yesterday. Things had been getting bad at work. We were getting very busy and many new RN's were hired. Problem was, the nurses with the co. for many years hadn't had a raise in 4 years. The new nurses with little experience and no hh exp. were making 50% more than us. This made for a divided workplace. We were so busy and had to do as many visits as we could. The newer nurses could do very few and the seasoned ones were doing double or triple and making less money. I had set up an interview in a different area several weeks ago for next Monday because I felt myself getting burned out. It got to be too bad and I felt I had to resign or my pt care would be impacted. It was a very sad day for me because I love home health and all of my patients with all of my heart. I dreamnt about my patients last night and kept thinking I was hearing my pager go off today even though I turned it in yesterday. I knew it was time for me to go but I feel as if a part of who I am is a home health nurse and that is now gone. I hope that the patients get the care that they deserve.