How Burned Out Are You?

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  1. How burned out are you?

    • 19
      Not at all. I look forward to going to work every day.
    • 58
      I experience mild dread when thinking about work.
    • 24
      I have nightmares when I'm sleeping and I'm pretty tense lately.
    • 28
      This is just too much. I'd leave the bedside if I didn't need the money.
    • 25
      I'm a nervous wreck and it's making me hate nursing.
    • 58
      Are you kidding? I'm toast, burnt to a crisp. But I have to work, so I keep on going.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

You're a good nurse. You don't take it out on your patients.

But you recognize that nursing is a stressful job and that you and your colleagues could be in various stages of burning out.

So......how burned out are you?

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Specializes in Geriatric and now peds!!!!.

I have only been a nurse for a little over a year now and I feel like I am slowly burning out. working understaffed and answering call bells while trying to pass meds within a 2 hour time frame every shift. add to that mix families with unrealistic expectations ( 1 of me to 22 residents).... I give and give and give at work, then come home and give and give to my family. There is not much left of me at the end of the day..... I love being a nurse though. Maybe I should do private duty.....

Wendy

LPN

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

While I recognize that burnout does exist, I personally find the challenges and whirlwind pace exhilarating at work. The satisfaction I receive from making a difference in a baby's or parent's life makes my tired feet and aching head at the end of the shift worth it. I could work any job and get tired and burnt out, but also not experience the satisfaction I get from my job as a NICU nurse.

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Specializes in MICU, neuro, orthotrauma.

floor nursing is burnout city.

i am tired of floor nursing.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

I enjoy my job. If you had started this poll one year ago I would have said "I hate my Job, I'm burnt out, I can't do it one more day". What a difference a change makes. Hallejah!

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma.

At the risk of sounding like a Pollyanna, LOL, I really don't ever have days when I don't feel like going to work...after 6 years in an extremely busy ER, I still love it. Helps to have an amazing nurse manager and director, docs that are fun to work with, and a lot of my closest friends on my shift. Of course I have moments where I'm completely stressed out at work, but I vent and get it out..most of my coworkers have the same twisted sense of humor that I believe comes from working in the ER. I don't take it home with me, any stress I have stays at work and doesn't affect my personal life. And my schedule helps too, every 2 weeks I have a stretch of 6 days off, like a mini-vacation.

Just curious, to those of you who are feeling burnt out..why not change jobs, floors, shifts, etc?

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Specializes in Peds ED, Peds Stem Cell Transplant, Peds.

:angryfireToast baby Toast:angryfire

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Some work days are good, whereas other days are disastrous. I experience some dread when thinking about going to work, because I am just not sure how the day will turn out.

Just curious, to those of you who are feeling burnt out..why not change jobs, floors, shifts, etc?
Many people who quit at the first moment of job dissatisfaction seem to become facility hoppers in the long run. In 10 years of nursing, they have worked at 15 different facilities before they realize that each workplace poses similar problems. I have met so many job-hoppers in nursing, and the trend is disturbing!
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I'm done. I've only been doing this a year and I hate it. I'm looking for a desk job.

I may like being an RN more, which I'm studying to become, but being an LPN? Too much for too many with too little for too little for too long.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.
I'm done. I've only been doing this a year and I hate it. I'm looking for a desk job.

I may like being an RN more, which I'm studying to become, but being an LPN? Too much for too many with too little for too little for too long.

I just found out how much (excuse me, make that how little) our LPNs make and I was completely shocked. Many of them actually took a pay cut to be an LPN from a CNA!

Not much incentive, is it.

When you get your RN Sue, you'll do lots better pay-wise. You'll also have a lot more career mobility.

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I make excellent money as an LPN on the east coast.

But I'm at the point where the money, no matter how much, isn't enough....patients too sick, paperwork overwhelming.... definately burnt! I scrape the blackened char off me and head in for another shift HOPING today will be OK...sad, but true. when you dream of being a stockroom clerk, it "ain't good.":lol2:

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Specializes in Cardiology.

Just curious, to those of you who are feeling burnt out..why not change jobs, floors, shifts, etc?

Why not? I have great co-workers. On night shift, we have this bond and we work so well together. It's unfortunate that things have changed for the worse on my floor.... thinking about moving on to another unit, but not sure I'm willing to lose the good things my floor has to offer... the teamwork.

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