I Left hospital nursing. What are you doing now?

[Emergent]

I am having a lot less stressful life these days because I'm just doing a little bit of home infusion and a little bit of Occupational Health. Basically the Occupational Health job is mainly watching Youtube videos and visiting with the security people at a data center construction site. Also I have a lot of time to read . The home infusion is giving special infusions to special people who have special problems. You start an IV and then you very carefully give the infusion. The mother of one of my patients makes excellent Homestyle Mexican food, and is a perfect hostess, plus I buy her tamales and salsa now.

[beckyboo1, BSN, RN]

Left the hospital setting 5 years ago when I thought it was already a hellhole and now I've see it's worse.  (and in the past year, a company bought the rural hospital I worked in and has shut it down)   I work outpatient endoscopy and love my co-workers and docs.  Took a big pay cut but was the best decision I could've ever made, plus I don't work nights, weekends, or holidays anymore.

[DaniannaRN, ASN, BSN]

I'm glad you found something that makes you happy!  It's difficult in our profession to find something that truly makes us happy.

I've been an RN 17 years and got out of clinical nursing only 3 months after actually becoming an RN since I couldn't put up with the nonsense in hospitals.  Currently, I work for an insurance company doing QA and hedis reviews.  The doctors will fax us charts and we just make sure the necessary info is in it.  No nights, no weekends, no holidays, actual lunch breaks.  And my manager even asks if I can do OT, she doesn't just pile it on me (I can say no OT without repercussions).  I can take PTO whenever I want, I can leave early if I need to.  I work from home fulltime (not just for the pandemic).  

I've been on a crusade to tell nurses about working at insurance companies.  It's not perfect, and of course they still have their issues, but it's nothing like working 12+ hours on your feet with rude patients, rude coworkers, bad management, interrupted breaks.

[payitforward]

I am pretty much at the end of my

 steer. I did long term care for a few years but I’ve had enough. I took a gig with a nursing agency doing COVID screenings in the school system. BEST gig I have ever had! No bosses, no one yelling and being disrespectful. I went home and was so relaxed and free!! I met up with a few friends and they even told me I looked better! Let’s face it, these days in nursing it’s just plain stressful. No cares and the employees will ATTEMPT to pacify us with PIZZA??? Oh no thank you. Now, I don’t feel ANY stress and I’m more relaxed. Nursing was good to me and I’ve met SO many good people, but I’m DONE. 

[OUxPhys, BSN, RN]

Still in the hospital but now in the cath/ep lab. Much less stress.