Dilemma

[helloonurse81, LVN]

I’ve been a nurse for 6 years and was a CNA for 11 before that. My whole career has been long term care and rehab. Recent experience has taught me that long term care is a business. A money making business. The work culture is that of a close family members barbecue. Sometimes fun, sometimes dramatic, sometimes traumatic. However, the care provided is shameful. The coverups are a disgrace. It’s causing me to have emotional outbursts at work, mostly trying to advocate for residents. I made a promise to some them of a while back that if they had to be miserable, I’d stay and be miserable with them. But as each work day goes by I’m more fed up and more distressed at what we call nursing. I cannot get on board with this and if other fields are like this when I do get the courage to leave and try something new, I will be surrendering my license. My heart breaks every day bc this is a cover your *** job and that’s it. Not what I signed up for.