Fed up, stressed out nurse

[StaffNurseMcS]

Hello everyone.

I've been qualified a year and for the past two months have been working in an elderly rehab ward. Before that i was doing agency work in hospitals and getting full time hours every week doing 12 hour shifts and i loved it but thought a permanent job would be better. Boy was i wrong! Its only been two months and i hate my job. I work ten days in a row sometimes and its so tiring. sometimes I'm the only nurse for 28 very demanding patients. I've tried to hand in my resignation and got told my shifts would be sorted out but then on the same day i was left on the ward on my own. I still do agency work occasionally and I'm thinking of just leaving my permanent job and working agency again. I off sick today and i know my manager will go through me for it but I'm just so stressed and can never switch off from the place. Basically i just want a bit of advice i want to go to Australia next hear and work as an agency nurse I'm just wondering if leaving this job will affect me getting a job over there? I can still provide two references between the two agencies I work for, mentors and university. If i stay in this job i know ill leave nursing