Indecisive about job situation?

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I’ve been a nurse for a year I have two jobs. One at an addiction rehab and another at LTC. The addiction job is my full time and the other is PRN.

I’m two months away from being at both for a year. However, I want to quit the addiction job. Because of the disrespectful clients there- I don’t take it personal but management doesn’t do anything to correct the clients behavior, they want me to take the clients on smoke breaks and hold their in house meeting by myself. The clients come in and out the nurse office whenever they choose no set med times, when I get to work I’m thrown into an admission I know nothing about- because the morning nurse didn’t do it. I’ve been patiently waiting until I find another job dealing with addiction but none are hiring. However, I’m so desperate to leave the only places literally hiring are LTC, pediatric homecare and plasma. I’m thinking of homecare but don’t know how stable the hours are. Would it be not smart of me to leave when I have two months to make a year? Or should I go PRN? However I’m not happy there and dreading going to work.

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VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN

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I think you'd be better off in the long run if you can stay at your current job for at least another two months. Go PRN if you have to, your perspective may change if you're not throwing yourself against that wall every day. Or, have you thought about going full-time at your PRN job? LTC has its problems too, but it's steadier than home health and pays better than plasma centers. Just throwing that out there. Good luck.

mzsuccess

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4 minutes ago, VivaLasViejas said:

I think you'd be better off in the long run if you can stay at your current job for at least another two months. Go PRN if you have to, your perspective may change if you're not throwing yourself against that wall every day. Or, have you thought about going full-time at your PRN job? LTC has its problems too, but it's steadier than home health and pays better than plasma centers. Just throwing that out there. Good luck.

I can’t stay another two months for my sanity. My other Ltc job I’m going to keep that one as prn I cannot do LTC full time. I don’t want to make a hasty decision but I’m going through hell at my current job.

mtnNurse., BSN

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It sounds like you answered your own question -- you say you can't make it another two months. If that's the case, move on and know that you will find another job if you try hard enough. Whether you like your next job better cannot be guaranteed. If you were able to hang in there another two months, it would look better on your resume that you stayed a year. But whether or not you stay two more months ultimately probably won't make a huge difference in the long run. I highly recommend working out your required notice though. Look back at your job description and see what that is because unlike many non-nursing jobs (two weeks notice required), a month notice might be required. You want to be professional and keep nursing, so you need to give the required notice.

Sorry you're having a rough time. I hope you find a job you like better.

mzsuccess

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7 minutes ago, mtnNurse. said:

It sounds like you answered your own question -- you say you can't make it another two months. If that's the case, move on and know that you will find another job if you try hard enough. Whether you like your next job better cannot be guaranteed. If you were able to hang in there another two months, it would look better on your resume that you stayed a year. But whether or not you stay two more months ultimately probably won't make a huge difference in the long run. I highly recommend working out your required notice though. Look back at your job description and see what that is because unlike many non-nursing jobs (two weeks notice required), a month notice might be required. You want to be professional and keep nursing, so you need to give the required notice.

Sorry you're having a rough time. I hope you find a job you like better.

Thanks, I will definitely give the right notice. It’s so crazy, that I’m starting to feel like a failure in nursing by not finding a job I like. I honestly liked this one at first. Thanks again

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mtnNurse., BSN

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17 minutes ago, mzsuccess said:

I’m starting to feel like a failure in nursing by not finding a job I like

Funny how Nursing Jobs have a way of doing this to so many people who thought they wanted to be a nurse. I think it's partly because what we learn before and during nursing school about what it means to be a nurse might sound WONDERFUL. But the jobs that give us working environments where it's possible to be that WONDERFUL nurse are few and far between.

Just from my perspective though, the complaints you had of that job didn't sound very bad or like unsolvable problems to me. It might even be an interesting way to learn and grow to stay there and work through those problems. There are for sure way harder and more stressful nursing jobs than what you presented. But, you of course know all the reasons why that job is driving you crazy and you shouldn't work a job you despise. I just hope you can find something better.

mzsuccess

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6 minutes ago, mtnNurse. said:

Funny how nursing jobs have a way of doing this to so many people who thought they wanted to be a nurse. I think it's partly because what we learn before and during nursing school about what it means to be a nurse might sound WONDERFUL. But the jobs that give us working environments where it's possible to be that WONDERFUL nurse are few and far between.

Just from my perspective though, the complaints you had of that job didn't sound very bad or like unsolvable problems to me. It might even be an interesting way to learn and grow to stay there and work through those problems. There are for sure way harder and more stressful nursing jobs than what you presented. But, you of course know all the reasons why that job is driving you crazy and you shouldn't work a job you despise. I just hope you can find something better.

Thanks but it’s way more I didn’t want to write a chapter. The backstabbing, clients cursing you out and becoming violent, plus being the only staff there with so many clients, sexual remarks, working with a nurse who tells the clients only she can save their life, because she’s been a nurse 22 years, finishing her admissions, and sooo much more.

mtnNurse., BSN

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29 minutes ago, mzsuccess said:

it’s way more I didn’t want to write a chapter.

yeah, I figured there were probably more unpleasant things going on. I'm surprised you want to find another job in addiction after your experience. I'm guessing that the cursing, sexual remarks, and becoming violent situations will be more likely to occur in the psych and addiction realm of nursing.

mzsuccess

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24 minutes ago, mtnNurse. said:

yeah, I figured there were probably more unpleasant things going on. I'm surprised you want to find another job in addiction after your experience. I'm guessing that the cursing, sexual remarks, and becoming violent situations will be more likely to occur in the psych and addiction realm of nursing.

You have a point,I thought this was my passion. That’s why it’s so devastating. It’s just making me start completely over. Now I don’t know what I want to do. I have3 pediatric homecare interviews this week.

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