New job after 25 years!!

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.

Hello everyone. I haven't posted here in a long time. I have worked in NICU for almost 25 years. I am really burned out. Although I have had many rewarding experiences, the stress is outweighing the good things. My commute is awful. I am always relying on overtime. I am a single mom now and I only have my income to rely on at this time.

So, I accepted a job in a call center full time as an advice nurse. I need the guaranteed hours and the commute is better. I am nervous, but excited. I am not happy about leaving the coworkers I like...but some of the difficult ones are making my job miserable.

I hear sometimes how nurses think Advice nurses who are at a desk all day are not working as hard as a floor/ICU nurse. My coworkers have said even a monkey could be an advice nurse. Wow. This nurse worked in a call center before. I was thinking I should get a monkey scrub top and wear it in her honor. lol.

So has anyone here made a big change into a totally different nursing field? Any thought, comments, advice would be helpful. I don't deal well with change sometimes, but I think I will be ok. I can always look into another job if this one doesn't work. I start in March. Also, when I went on the tour of the call center there were 2 people giving massages to the nurses. That alone is enough to make me want to work there!

Thanks for listening

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You have to do what is best for you and your family. Embrace this new change. Don't listen to the naysayers.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
You have to do what is best for you and your family. Embrace this new change. Don't listen to the naysayers.

THIS.

Not everyone is meant to know your future endeavors, especially in high stress jobs where peers may feel trapped and see no end in sight.

Sending positive vibes for success at your new position!

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My coworkers have said even a monkey could be an advice nurse. Wow. This nurse worked in a call center before.

No doubt at all that she thought that she was the smartest monkey when she worked in a call center and I'll bet she thinks she's the smartest on your unit too. ;)

Good luck!! As was said, do what's best for you and your family!!

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.

Ha ha....you are so right graduate nurse. Geez...some nurses can be so rude. It's really sad.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Ha ha....you are so right graduate nurse. Geez...some nurses can be so rude. It's really sad.

Ah, nurses are mere mortals, after all.

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.
Ah, nurses are mere mortals, after all.

And some are just plain evil. Seriously. Not all nurses are good people.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
And some are just plain evil. Seriously. Not all nurses are good people.

I post with brevity. I have stories for days on when I was younger and a tech and stated that I wanted to have two specialties as a nurse; a peer told me "you can't do that"; fast forward years later, guess what? that particular person happened to be present when I was explaining that *gasp* indeed worked in two specialties!

I don't take stock on humankind's faults and level of "evilness", especially when most of it is based out of their own shortcomings and fears; hence, the "mere mortals" statement... :blink:

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.

ok. thanks for the explanation. sometimes the written word is hard to decipher. I am just burned out with some coworkers.

i need to work on not being offended by comments. this particular nurse is very difficult.

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Specializes in nursing education.

Telephonic nursing is indeed challenging. You can't just pull the covers off of someone and do a head to toe. All you have is what they sound like on the phone. If you have access to the chart, that makes life so much easier.

You will get suicide calls, all kinds of psych, all kinds of everything. You will have calls that use every bit of what you know. You will save lives, trust me.

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.

Wow, now I am more nervous. Have you done telephonic nursing?

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Specializes in nursing education.

Yes, telephone triage and telephonic case management. It takes some getting used to. It is real nursing.

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