so done with LTC and it hurts... am i a trader?

[focusedvalpn]

so i always new i wanted to be a nurse all my life my mom, grandmother, and sister are all Rn's. i remember going to work with my grandmother who worked in home health until i started school and i had a ball:heartbeat. ive been a lpn for 4years and ive worked in the health care field for 10yrs and over 4yrs in management outside of health care. i planned on going for my rn later but i am in school currently for my degree in health care administration. :redpinkhe

ok so here is my problem i work in ltc which is the only place you can work as a lpn and make a good living. i am soooo tired of rn's in ltc well i should say this rn making $10 more than me and doing absolutley nothing. i work with a rn who is so lazy she wont collect a STAT lab because she "feels like it can wait" but i am genuely busy collecting HER lab from 10am last minute staff meeting i have to hear about it for 20min. uggg! and when we (lpn's and other rn's that are outside of the rn club) complain about what she does not do and what we get stuck with fixing or completing we are not being team players yet the same work she doesnt do if a lpn does not get it done the inquisition comes to town and if we say well this was ordered at 10am i got here at 3 WE are making excuses and 7-3 is busy mind you 3-11 gets all the admissions and have to complete them, we can get 6 on one unit at a time with 2 nurses on a 60 skilled unit:down:. not even the administrator cares she says our job is easy "house" is her reference.

i hate the rn vs lpn thing i feel we are all nurses our goals should be patient care we all have our responsibilities that we have to do. i feel like i work in an environment where its the rn club and then everyone else. and honestly if the patients didnt suffer for it i wouldn't care. i know that not all rn's are like the ones i work with and not all lpns pull their weight so im not bashing rn's or anything like that but im soo frustrated. i have a don that has never worked in ltc and has only worked in offices and did the clinical experience is only in a hospital was her clinials 5 or so years ago. really the skill set appears to only reach just beyond collecting v/s she was lost in several codes and just left us lpns to it and has no idea what to do with trachs but insists on admitting them but fired the respiratory tech who kept up on the trachs and at one time assessing the reach pts prior to admission to make sure we had what we needed for care and to in-service staff on all the setups, care, emergency situations. she insists on writing wound orders that are wrong and when we question them respectfully mind you or offer an opinion we are told we are being insobordinate. dispite the fact we are just telling her what we were told by the wound nurses, wound clinics, and the wound specialist they had us go see said not to do use or things you dont use together.

im frustrated with the "in house treatment" that could potentially cause residents to have harm or prolonged sickness. all because they dont want any unplanned discharges! really before we 911 someone out we are told to call the don at home first even when the md says send them out:mad:!

i love going to work to see my residents i mean i really used to look forward to work and seeing them and even my co-workers. now i hate it not because i work short and hardly get a break beyond the one time i might get to the bathroom you all know this song and dance, i hate going to work because i know when i come to work i give 200% and most of my co-works do also but when some one in leadership can say and treat staff not just the lpns but cnas and rns like we dont matter dont count and basically try to strip you of your pride and dignity as a nurse that kills me inside . and this just seems to be an ongoing theme in ltc so i think it is just time to leavebut then i feel bad because i feel like im abadoning my patients. i mean i really had a situation with one of my residents that i was crying at work talking to a co-worker because i know i did everything i could do and my leadership put so many strings on what we can do i feel like im not a nurse but grim reaper's helper. like for every step we take to help they come up with more red tape and land mines to maneuver:confused: through.

i feel like a trader...am i? because ive decided to leave ltc altogether and go and be a paper pusher (no offense meant to anyone) as either an office practice manger or office site coordinator i have not decided which one to take.

[PunkinLPN]

I feel the same way. I just signed up to get my degree in business management...I'm just tired of nursing...done it for 10 years and I'm done....They work you like a dog and show no appreciation. Most companies don't show their employees that they are appreciated...giving me a $1 pen that says we care isn't doing it for me...so if join the trader club....lol