After five years of nursing, continuing my education, and hoping for a better day than the last one, I decided to quit my nursing job. Nursing is very demanding, psychologically challenging & most of the time frustrating due to the lack of respect from other employees. Even with a BSN and supervisory positions I could not find any happiness in this field. The hard truth is, no matter where you work, the nursing position you fill, there will always be pressure from up top (management). I started as a floor nurse at a local hospital, putting in long hours, taking in experience, just like most graduates. After three years of work on a medical-surgical floor, I was already burnt out. High acuity, understaffing, long-hours, will make your life miserable. I decided to switch positions into a supervisory role. The hard truth about supervisory position is that you are a management (bit..h). Management controls everything, from keeping the floors understaffed, preventing from hiring enough people to have adequate staffing, as-well-as drilling me to deliver teachings left and right. I felt bad for my few co-workers that worked with me prior to my management position that now I drilled about some documentation that nobody even looks at. The hardest truth to take in is that some business, clueless, worthless education individuals set rules for hard working professionals like nurses and don't give a crap about them. An RN is an aide, nurse, occupational, speech, physical therapist, a medical advisor, housekeeper, electrician etc. I decided to leave once and for all and be unemployed. I shared this just to see what you guys think about the move, was it a mistake?
After five years of nursing, continuing my education, and hoping for a better day than the last one, I decided to quit my nursing job. Nursing is very demanding, psychologically challenging & most of the time frustrating due to the lack of respect from other employees. Even with a BSN and supervisory positions I could not find any happiness in this field. The hard truth is, no matter where you work, the nursing position you fill, there will always be pressure from up top (management). I started as a floor nurse at a local hospital, putting in long hours, taking in experience, just like most graduates. After three years of work on a medical-surgical floor, I was already burnt out. High acuity, understaffing, long-hours, will make your life miserable. I decided to switch positions into a supervisory role. The hard truth about supervisory position is that you are a management (bit..h). Management controls everything, from keeping the floors understaffed, preventing from hiring enough people to have adequate staffing, as-well-as drilling me to deliver teachings left and right. I felt bad for my few co-workers that worked with me prior to my management position that now I drilled about some documentation that nobody even looks at. The hardest truth to take in is that some business, clueless, worthless education individuals set rules for hard working professionals like nurses and don't give a crap about them. An RN is an aide, nurse, occupational, speech, physical therapist, a medical advisor, housekeeper, electrician etc. I decided to leave once and for all and be unemployed. I shared this just to see what you guys think about the move, was it a mistake?
I left management but I am working as a nurse.
I am not a bad manager and enjoyed clinical management for the most part but I was not willing to understaff and burn out nurses, which led to constant nagging from upper management. Of course I understand that you can not loose money but I do not agree on understaffing as a tool to regulate finances and rely on overtime or voluntary overtime. I despised the view of upper administration that workers are just a commodity and can be moved around and treated like a number. It is wrong on every level and that is what happens when healthcare is primarily financially driven. The economy was used as an excuse to not hire or staff while upper management continues to shovel the money and goes home for the weekend.
I worked in the community setting for a while and now work in a hospital that actually values nurses and support them.
I understand why you left nursing management. Personally, I love to be a nurse and feel fulfilled in that role and have great satisfaction. So I decided to stay in nursing but find a role and setting that is a better fit for me.
nutella, MSN, RN
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I left management but I am working as a nurse.
I am not a bad manager and enjoyed clinical management for the most part but I was not willing to understaff and burn out nurses, which led to constant nagging from upper management. Of course I understand that you can not loose money but I do not agree on understaffing as a tool to regulate finances and rely on overtime or voluntary overtime. I despised the view of upper administration that workers are just a commodity and can be moved around and treated like a number. It is wrong on every level and that is what happens when healthcare is primarily financially driven. The economy was used as an excuse to not hire or staff while upper management continues to shovel the money and goes home for the weekend.
I worked in the community setting for a while and now work in a hospital that actually values nurses and support them.
I understand why you left nursing management. Personally, I love to be a nurse and feel fulfilled in that role and have great satisfaction. So I decided to stay in nursing but find a role and setting that is a better fit for me.