Have you ever thought about quitting nursing all together?

[sasha2lady]

Lately, I dont know what exactly it is, but Ive become so disgusted with being a nurse. Maybe its where I work, the people I work with......dont know. Ive gotten to the point where I HATE going to that place. I cant stand the management, more so than ever before.

My coworkers really get under my skin to the point where I can hardly stand to look at some of them anymore. In general, things are just too slack. People have become so lazy and nonchalant about everything.

The mgmt are wanting to cut our hours...AGAIN....they increased our benefits cost which is outrageous. I noticed on my last few pay checks that they took out more "breaks" than what they should have....which added up to them paying me for 70 hours when I worked 76!

I got chewed out & threatened to be written up by the DON because while I was OFF for 4 days a resident was moved to my skilled hall from assisted and that nurse that had worked didnt chart on her or do a singe bit of paperwork on her...for us thats a whole new admission because the skill level changes. So......this was done on the 4th.....I got my butt chewed and handed back to me on the 9th!!!!!!!! I charted as I would anyone else when I returned to work, but I have 36 pts a nite and average at least 16-20 charts a nite! I dont have time to go thru every single paper in a chart with a fine tooth comb!

Now....what really got me was how the DON took it out on me, threatened to write me up, and the nurse who is at FAULT, called in for the 3rd weekend in a freakin ROW, & never gets a word said to her! And wont get anything said to her! The DON went as far as to say that I had not been OFF work those days and that the day of my return I wasnt there the whole shift 7p-7a. I popped back at her and told her to pull up my clock in times on the computer & she'd see when I was there and when I wasnt. She also tried to tell me that this resident was not on my hall when I worked and I KNOW she was and still is!

I found out later, that her and another nurse had had a similar argument the day before. So....I went and did some of the paperwork on this resident but I refused to back date a single thing....I dated it all for the 9th & filled in what I could.

If I could afford to I would go back to school to do something totally not nursing related at all...like dental hygiene or x ray tech...

Any of you ever felt this way?

Im ready to pull my hair out by the roots & everybody elses along with it!

[prettyinblu]

YES YES YES! I think about it all the time but I decided to change the environment that I was in. The SNF just got on my last nerves so Im now in the hospital setting. Just think about changing your setting and see if that helps

[sasha2lady]

I've considered that I've even considered doing phlebotomy on the side to see how I like it but I'm not up for being a pin cushion in the class setting My resolution is to get out n 2 -3 yrs if I can.

[agldragonRN]

i feel the same. maybe it is the ltc setting. i don't know. i hope it gets better. i am thinking of going back to school for another degree but the pay is not even close to what i get paid now so most likely not.

i want to try hospital setting but nobody is hiring new grad in my area. sigh...

[sasha2lady]

I totally know the feeling: I love my ltc residents but I'm soooo sick of the politics and unfair way we are treated where I work. I could go elsewhere but the local places are not my style. The nurses try to set new hires up to cause trouble etc. Too cliquish for me. I don't wanna do office work and lose my skills Peds is outta the question and I don't like hospitals or home health. I'm the sole income in my house so I can't just up and mms the sudden moves I'd like to. I feel like I don't do anybody any good anymore. Like I don't have the same purpose I used to. My drive is depleted.

[AZMOMO2]

Some days I research social work, others I research sonography, others I research education. But for now I'll get my RN, BSN, MSN and get the heck out of LTC someday.

[Bobylon]

Have I ever thought about it??? Yup!!! Do I still ??? Regularly.... I love my floor, my patients (well, a lot of them...) and just about all of my co-workers, but the hospital's mgt and staffing leaves much to be desired... I'm tired of working with a skeleton crew with more and more "responsibilities" assigned to our short-staffed night shift. I'm about over all of it.... If we work over, we get spoken to....if we don't get everything done (no matter the patient load) we get spoken to...if we stay late off the clock to finish charting, we get spoken to....our last unit meeting, we were told to not clock out and finish tasks on the clock...which will only lead to more being spoken to, and at this point there is not enough help and too much work to finish it in our allotted hours (oh, yeah - if we get "no lunch," we have to get the house supervisor to come and physically sign the Kronos exception sheet ....easier said than done). OK, am done ranting... I do love what I do, I love the folks I work with , but there's just too much BS involved in trying to stay out of "trouble" which shouldn't be considered "trouble" in the first.... I hate pencil-pushers/bean-counters - they should walk a mile (or 10) in our shoes every night.

[Simba&NalasMom, LPN]

Yup. All the time. But working fast food doesn't pay $24-26 per hour.

[caliotter3]

Well, you said you don't like home health and you can't get much more laid back than that, doing patient care. If some kind of admin job doesn't do it for you, you might need to look at changing fields.