have any of you left nursing

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Either due to burnout or disenchantment. Did you leaveleave or know someone who has left. ..and what did you do career-wise post nursing?

Specializes in Psych,LTC,.

I'm working on getting out, while I love nursing, I just can't get work, and I have to pay the bills. I was an LPN for many years, and went back to school for my BSN. Employers are treating that as a resume gap and my LPN experience counts for zero. This is what I was told in post interview follow up calls.

I'm trying to get into clinical research. I'm not getting interviews for entry level positions, so I think I need some classes on it to have something related on my resume.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

I took a case management job for a year due to sheer exhaustion from night shift and no day options coming up for a long time. I hated it, I don't like talking on the phone all day. I'm an interactive person.

I want to get my masters in education and become a ER educator someday. However that's down the road. I love bedside, but in the last week I've caught major med error (doc ordered massive lasix dose on wrong pt) and a doc wouldn't tube a pt that truly needs to be tubed and resulted in a bad outcome.

I love my job, but having to constantly fight admin and some docs for the right care for my patients is frustrating. I love when my pts are happy with the care I give, but it's an uphill battle and seems that nurses are put in increasingly more difficult positions.

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I was a second-career nurse, and started classes two years prior to leaving my factory job. My factory job paid for my schooling, both while I was employed, and for two years after I left the plant. I wanted to work in ltc right from the start. Ltc is a truly appalling model of care for our seniors. Nurses will not advocate for themselves (and therefore their residents). I returned to manufacturing, got a big pay raise and all my nice benes back. In miss nursing but God willing, I ain't going back.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I miss bedside nursing. I truly do. I really enjoyed the ER, the chaos, the lack of control, the variety of pts. I'm an APN now. I have a great job, great hours, co-workers and MD colleagues. Yet, if I'm honest with myself, I wish I had stayed in the ER.

However, that was over 9 years ago since I left. I still volunteer on my ambulance service, but oh well....can't go back as they say.

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I haven't left, but I did come pretty close last month. I was working in a wretched facility with a nightmare of a boss. I kept thinking, "I really don't need this crap." I was an Administrative Assistant before I became a nurse and I seriously considered going back to that for a while. What I wound up doing was taking a leave of absence for two weeks, doing some major soul-searching, and ultimately resigning from my position there. I love my patients and my co-workers, but the working environment was beyond what I was willing to tolerate. I wound up interviewing for a job in another facility and was offered a job immediately. I start Monday. :)

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Handing in my resignation tomorrow! The holidays were just what I needed to realize how burnt out I am on healthcare and how wrong the field is for me. The company I thought was halfway decent for the past two years was bought out by a giant corporation and has gone downhill since then - more silly regulations, treating workers like cogs /robots instead of people, the whole culture is one of exploitation - how can I get as much as possible out of these people while paying as little as possible? Got strep throat? Come to work anyway, it's New Year's Eve! I'm tired of running myself into the ground making other people rich.

Not gonna lie, I'm SCARED! Scared out of my ******* MIND right now. Fears of what if I fail? What if my businesses fail? What if I disappoint my partner? But I can't keep pretending to be okay the way things are right now. I'm also EXCITED! I have a fire lit under my butt right now because I have $7k in savings and that's my seed money for starting my businesses AND paying my bills until I generate full-time income from self-employment. So the faster I get this off the ground, the better! I am terrified and PUMPED.

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I already wrote about this. I retired, when I couldn't take it anymore. I do not regret it. Move on, you're not doing anyone any favors by staying, especially yourself!

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i have a question for you kind sir. what do you do in informatics?

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.
i have a question for you kind sir. what do you do in informatics?

I'm not a sir, I'm a madam lol. :geek: I work with Epic and I build structured reporting so that when people (docs or techs) are doing echoes or stress tests they can just click on a bunch of buttons instead of having to dictate a whole bunch of stuff. I am certified in Cupid which is the cardiology component of Epic. I also troubleshoot any other issues that are going on in the hospital that is related to Cupid and/or cardiology EMR. And I drink coffee. :coffee:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I seem to go through a want to leave nursing but not sure what I want to do mode approx every 5 years. Feeling burnt out at the moment but hoping that is going to change soon. I did take a 3 year break, a year before I moved to Canada and 2 years in Canada but a lot of that was sorting out nurse registration. It certainly recharged my batteries for when I came back into nursing

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Many threads on this that can assist you. You don't need to give up on nursing, just find a place where you fit.

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