Is it a Full Moon?

Hi Fiona, from your AN bio, it indicates you've been in nursing for 10+ years. As a new grad RN, I look up to experienced nurses on the unit as role models. I admire the work nurses do and seeing them balance their work life with their family life. It's common for nurses to put others before themselves thus being burnt out comes easily. As a nurse with 0year experience, thank you for coming in everyday and showing new nurses how it's done and that it can be done.

I know now taking a vacation is not the only solution, it seems like this has to be taken to a management or union level.

I hope it turns towards the better for you!

Yup. I'm right there with you. I'm so over it all. No raises for 2 years. Nothing like being paid exactly the same as the new hire I'm training.

I'll soon be out of here.

I feel the same. Certain aspects of my job I enjoy, other aspects I dread, particularly the endless documentation. New forms all the time, heavier patient loads, less staff and more demanding families.

We are also experiencing job cuts to every department so that means even fewer staff. I feel trapped because I am well aware that the same scenario exists everywhere.

I'm not sure what the solution is.

And all of the changes are the work of upper management and CEOs. It all trickles downhill. I have people who report to me, but I'm told what I should think and feel. I try to balance things out because I know how draining floor nursing can be.

The budgets are set, with less money being allotted to actual health care needs. More and more, we're moving towards a two tiered system.