done with dialysis nursing

[Noreene]

Its been a long time coming. I am 43 been a nurse for 22 years. Ltc 4 years. Hemo for 15 years. I transfered from one center to another seeking for a happy medium center. Nothing changes. Even took antidepressants to cope. Only giving me more side effects than help. Made me numb. So let's try Peritoneal Dialysis. Better hours right. On call not bad. But management with "It is what it is." attitude. In other words, complain make changes but nothing I can do for you. Pts are awesome when you just listen to them. But when B***** and D***** is not getting the census up because there are no one who wants to try. Or just no pts sick right now which is awesome. All the nurses fault. Then your only nurse partner first thing in the morning cursing loudly to herself of how frustrating it is. And GOSSIP! This happens 2-3 times a week. I close the door. Then one day after trying to get an adequacy for the pt I have been trying to do for 2 months. He brought me out to his truck and stated,"I guess there is pee and drain specimen on the street somewhere. Its not here it flew out. Hahahaha!" Done and done and done.

Well, let's try home health. See how this goes. But i really want to leave nursing. I am good at it, but I am just tired. Just tired. I haven't been working for 1 month. I still don't feel like wearing scrubs. I am even considering retail. Vent.....

[ausrnurse]

Get out of dialysis. Without good management this job is soul destroying. I never even realised how stressed out I was until I left - I used to cry every single day and could barely get out of bed in the morning. The worst shifts I've ever had in intensive care are still better than a good shift in my old dialysis unit. There's a lot of things I miss about it, but getting blamed for everything by everyone, and working under impossible conditions is not one of them.

[NDXUFan]

Not worth your health.