I give up

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Well, there was a time when I absolutely loved working Home Health. There are many aspects which I still do. However, starting with a new company that is not-for-profit and apparently expects their nurses to have the same mentality (sorry I am not a volunteer and I have not been this broke since I was working as an aide in nursing school).

I just can't do it anymore. Or at least, I'm unwilling to. I will miss the one on one patient care, the independent drives in my car listening to the radio. Teaching people real life things that can benefit their health in real, visible ways.

I am getting paid less and asked to do more and more and more work. How is Home Health going to survive the changes ahead in the health care system?

So I took a job as a Wound Care nurse at a facility, where I might get bored stuck in one place all day. But, I will still get to apply my expertise in excellent ways, help patients and educate people which I love to do. And I will make three times the salary. But I still get to make my own schedule!

Blessings to all of you who hang in there and put up with the ever increasing bull-pucky that has simply overwhelmed me. :nurse:

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Paddler, I hear ya! Good luck in the wound care area, I think that would be a great job. Am sure I would enjoy it.

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Yay! I just discovered my new job has the cheapest and best medical insurance I've ever been offered as a nurse. When I was a truck driver I had better insurance than I've had in my 8 years as a nurse. But, this new place is only $140 a month, low deductible (one job I had was a $3000 frikkin deductible - may as well not have medical insurance then!).. and, they pay for infertility treatments, which I was planning to look into on my own dime next year and now it will be covered! What a blessing!

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Happy for you. Hope all is well in the new job. Best wishes for your fertility treatments! Do keep us posted.

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Are you at a hospital? Nursing home? just curious.....

I'm happy for you and I hope you like your new job.

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SNF. So far so good, just have to get my head wrapped around punching a clock for the first time in 8 years and being to work exactly on time. :)

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SNF. So far so good, just have to get my head wrapped around punching a clock for the first time in 8 years and being to work exactly on time. :)

I hear you about the clock punching. I would punch the card backwards, upside down, and any other way but the right way. Payroll must have thought I was a moron.

The biggest reason I am still in home health is I am prn with no more than 8 - 10 visits a week, usually 8 max, since I am semi retired. I could never ever do home health full time, been there, done that, what a joke!

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