Did I make a mistake?!

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I have worked in a SNF for 3 years now as a Treatment Nurse, and I love it. I'm good at it. I like my supervisor. I like my coworkers. I love my residents. I'm also the Restorative Nursing Coordinator, and took the facility from lowest participation to highest participation rates company wide, which directly affects reimbursement. Prior to this position, I did some one on one peds in home and hated it.

Now on to where the panic comes in.

My facility's administrator is horrible. He frequently uses public humiliation, name calling, and perverse sexual references to his staff as tools to "run his building". Corporate is aware, but will do nothing because we are a high profit building with only 2 deficiencies last survey. I have ethics, and he violates them. I have had enough. I interviewed and received a Home Health position doing visits- full time, better benefits, comparable pay. I am working my notice now, and all I can think is DID I MAKE A MISTAKE?

Will my skills correlate?

Is it less stressful working home health visits than SNF or did I jump from the pan into the fire?

Did they offer me the position because I'm a great candidate or because they're desperate and I'm a warm body with a license?

PLEASE HELP.

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You must go to where you and your ethics are respected.

You are going to be in a new position. You will have doubts and concerns. You will also learn and gain new skills.

Deep breaths... enjoy your new job.

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You must go to where you and your ethics are respected.

You are going to be in a new position. You will have doubts and concerns. You will also learn and gain new skills.

Deep breaths... enjoy your new job.

Thank you for the reassurance. I know leaving is right but I guess I'm developing some Stockholm Syndrome with regards to my current employer.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

It's not because you're a warm body with a license. Read over your post again and reaiize what an accomplished nurse you are. Any company would be blessed to have you and they know this. Anyone who can survive in a SNF and even thrive there to the point where you made massive inprovements in the rating and patient care should be applauded and you are what I would call a "super nurse"! :)

With your background as a treatment nurse, you should do fine in home healthcare. The only negative I have heard about this type of nursing is that the charting is extensive and if you mention the word "OASIS" to any home health nurse it seems to be a four letter word, but I have never done it and am not a reliable source.

Best of everything to you. You rock! And the guy at your SNF sounds like a class A creep. When the facility comes to their senses and realizes that they lost you to keep him, they will probably be sick to their stomach.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Love the comments by westieluv! Kudos to you!

You have strong personal ethics which I understand and support your actions. Good luck.

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It's not because you're a warm body with a license. Read over your post again and reaiize what an accomplished nurse you are. Any company would be blessed to have you and they know this. Anyone who can survive in a SNF and even thrive there to the point where you made massive inprovements in the rating and patient care should be applauded and you are what I would call a "super nurse"! :)

With your background as a treatment nurse, you should do fine in home healthcare. The only negative I have heard about this type of nursing is that the charting is extensive and if you mention the word "OASIS" to any home health nurse it seems to be a four letter word, but I have never done it and am not a reliable source.

Best of everything to you. You rock! And the guy at your SNF sounds like a class A creep. When the facility comes to their senses and realizes that they lost you to keep him, they will probably be sick to their stomach.

Thank you! I read a post where someone was talking about going from ICU to home health and hated it. I started to wonder how anyone could hate it? Lots of HANDWRITTEN documentation with my current position and lots of computerized as well, so I'm used to it. My mother was an RN and worked home health/ hospice pretty much my entire childhood. So for me, I see it as more compatible with motherhood.

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I sometimes wish I didn't have such strong ethics, and I wouldn't have been targeted by the administrator. But if I didn't I would've had no motivation to serve my residents beyond the minimum, and that just seems like a job instead of a career and life passion. Thank you for your encouragement!

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