I'm taking a 3-month medical leave of absence due to stress from nursing. Anyone who is currently working with me will recognize who I am.
Basically, covid has killed nursing for me. It has made it into a macabre profession. I am now a full-blown claustrophobic thanks to the masking mandate, and all the other regulatory BS that has taking over everything. I hate what nursing has become.
I hope to continue to lead a healthy life, and then die before the medical industrial complex gets its hands on me. I've told my children that I want to die a natural death and I want only a graveside Christian burial when my time comes.
I'm thinking that I'll be all rested to pick up a shorter contract this Winter in the midst of the Covid crisis. I definitely am done with where I was working. This LOA is really coming along nicely.
If anyone here has enough PTO accrued, get your doctor to fill out that FMLA paperwork!
Specializes in ICU/ER/Med-Surg/Case Management/Manageme.
1 hour ago, Emergent said:
I might be getting my dream job at an Antique Mall and fruit market!?
Oh My Gosh! I can't believe you are doing that! It is exactly what I've been wanting to do for about the last 18 months or so. I want to open a booth at one of the mercantile/antique malls to sell my furniture and thrift flips as well as a lot of the crafts I do. Trying to figure out the logistics, get the "capital" together - that sort of thing. I hope you get your dream job and it's all you want it to be. (I am a tad jealous!?)
I would quit the hospital again in a heart beat. I work as a director now in correctional healthcare. Lots of room for advancement, locations everywhere if you know where to look, many different types... Jails, State Jails, State Prisons, State Parole Violators, USMS, ICE, juveniles, males, females. Work for govt or private companies. Or do like me and be a director over 14 prisons and detention facilities (from California to Florida, and then North to Ohio).
It's ambulatory care for a lot of them, some have infirmaries, some have hospitals/surgery centers onsite. It's totally different than the hospital. Most of the ones I work at are ambulator care, similar to a MD office. Pay is comparable or better than hospitals, nursing homes, and definitely ambulatory care.
The inmates have never been a threat to me personally. It comes down to treating them with respect and recognizing boundaries. I've always called them Mr. or Ms. and that has gotten me a lot of respect over the years. At the Level 1 Trauma Center we had a lot of gang members with hits out on them, etc. I surely definitely did not feel safe there with the 1-2 security officers campus wide.
I met a gal today who came and bought something from me, whom I know from working at the local Farm Store. They have openings all the time, she's retired like me. She says it's really easy work, working behind the cash register. I go there all the time to buy feed and they have some clothing and garden supplies and stuff like that. Not only that, they are not requiring employees to wear masks. Many stores around here are not taking this new mask mandate seriously, people went along with it the first time but a lot of the public is very fed up with all this around here. She never had to wear masks anyways because she says she has claustrophobia, which I definitely have as well. I just can't wear masks for an extended period of time anymore.
I just can't wear masks for an extended period of time anymore.
I do at work or Dr office, that's it. I stay home otherwise, groceries/ordered items delivered or curbside pick up. I have serious mask fatigue, and like you, have just chosen to avoid the mask situations. I'm a private/solitary person, so it's not ruining my social life. Some people just don't get it
Wuzzie
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