Sierralee

I intend on it! I plan on getting out of LTC. Thanks. I will be checking in.

No not at my age. When I decided to become a nurse it was out of necessity. My husband had a heartattack and then turn around and ended up getting stented a year late. So we decided that i needed to go on.(He was afraid that he would die and everyone knows doctors don's pay well) we decided I needed a career that could let me finish raising the boys if something happened to him. But I had been out of school for so long I would have had to take one year of college basic course and then go into a RN Program. I couldn't take the chance of being tied up for so long, just in case something would have happened to my husband. So someone lead me to the LPN programs. It work very well for me, since it was a one year program and all my work experiences was in the medical fielf. So with my husband support i quit a full physician office position as a medical assistant and went to school. I blew thru the course (graduated honors). Took me a while to find a position, but it came as this healthcare coordinator for AL/PC, a very large facility with LTC and independent living too. It was part time which is what I wanted and only 4.5 miles from home. But after 6 years of every christmas, every other wkend off, no real time off to speak of and working like a fool! I am tired of the nursing field. The only time when i feel like a true nurse is when I am giving personal one on one care. I am not only supervisor of 4 aides, I have 4 floors with approximately 75 residents. I complete all cbs/insuling bid, check in meds, deal with problems a-z, schedule appts and set up transportation, and occasionally will have to be a aide and still complete the above. The thought has crossed my mind to go on, but I am 53 yo, I am expecting my first grandchild, I sew, paint, draw, garden, bake. (basically I do not stop). I dont' want another loan (still paying LPN program off). I just hoping there is something out there were I can use my nursing knowledge and get out of these type of facility. I do have one questions what is the Excel? something bridge from LPN to RN about? So to go on. But none of my friends are in this field and don't understand, and I am sure my husband get tired of me telling him I had a bad night. (ooo thats the other thing, my last kid just graduated from high school, I would like to spend time with my husband, he works daylight, i work 3-11, we did that so someone was home with the youngest) anyway this is the only place for me to vent and see if someone has some suggestion. Hell i willing to sit at a desk and not take care of patients. Sometimes I think I am just at the crossroad and its time to make a change. I really hate dropping this license or not being a nurse, cause I did work hard to get this license, believe it or not it is very important to me!. (just an update: My husband does work and is very compliance, he did suffer another heartattack approx 3 years ago, but it was mild and he still works a full time job. just bad family genetics). Ok signing off for now. Thank you for listening.