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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!
Belinda, I worked long-term and skilled care for years and the got into agency work on the side. One of the first places I was sent was a nephrology floor at a hospital. You take it slow and ask questions when you need to. You will be fine and it will come back to you. Good luck and fear nothing!!!! JulieBean
Originally posted by BelindaLPNJust a bit of an update:
I quit my job last week! It had gotten to the point where I was so miserable with work that it was spilling over into my personal life. And I realized that nothing was going to change.
I have an interview tomorrow morning at a huge new hospital about 40 minutes away. I am so nervous!! Wish me luck!!:)
:balloons: Good luck, Belinda! I just returned to nursing after being out almost six years myself. I went through a refresher course, and it was very helpful. I'm finding that each day more and more things are coming back to me as if I never left nursing in the first place. You'll be fine. Chin up! Let us know how your interview goes. :kiss
Chin up, Belinda ! Who knows... you just MIGHT get lucky and find a good bunch who work together and support each other. Rare, I know... but if you don't get out there and look for it, you'll SURELY never find it ! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain IF you picked the "lucky number"!
Wish you the best. If you're miserable where you're at, ANY change can be a breath of fresh air.
Geeg
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Given the nsg shortage, the hospital should be tripping over themselves to retrain you. Remember, you are the commodity, they need you!!!!!!!!