Finally had ENOUGH!

[ShortFuse_LPN]

I started a thread not long ago wondering if I was burnt out or fed up. Well, I realized yesterday...I'm fed up!! Fed up with people who come to work to socialize, management with no backbone, and fed up with working my a** off doing my work and whatever the day shift nurse doesn't do!!!

I am going to start looking into going back to hospital nursing. I am a bit worried that I have forgotten so much that I won't be able to provide my pts with the care that they deserve. I've worked in LTC for the last 4 yrs. Have any of you gone to work in a hospital after LTC? Did you take a refresher course or just jump into it?

I am excited and yet scared to leave the "security" of my present job, but for my own sanity, I have to get out of there!

[Love-A-Nurse]

belinda, all the best to you.

[RN auditor]

I know exactly how you feel!!!! I work a desk job and I love it. I thought I was burnt out on patient care. Well, I picked up a weekend job at a local LTC for the extra money and I loved it. I worked one day during the week (when all of administration was there) and there was so much stress, so many chiefs and too few indians, no help with the two admissions and one discharge, disorganization (the new resident arrived and no one new which room he was going), and general caos that I realize I wasn't burned out on patient care, I was burned out on the politics of nursing. I enjoy doing patient care on the weekends when my priority is actually caring for the patients and no one from administration is there to distract me. I don't think I'll ever go back to full time bed side nursing but from now on, any bedside nursing I do will be on an off shift or the weekend!!!!!