Problems at work, I need your advice nurses!

[Myapple77]

I'm an LVN working in a SNF. Been working there for a couple of months now and this is my first nursing job. I was trained for 9 days/meetings and after that I was left alone by myself already. I work noc shift with no differentials 12 hrs shift 3X/week. At night I do 2 halls and do med pass 3X each hall and I have 40+ residents. I also do a LOT of documentations plus orders that are not done at am shift. A couple of times I have to do new admits at night! I only have 2 CNAs during my shift. The short stay residents that we have are mostly hard to take care off. Too many fall risk. Most of the time I have to stop what I'm doing because I have to attend to this residents who needs help going to the bathroom etc. I just don't want anymore fall incident during my shift!. But most of the time you can't stop it from happening. A lot of residents has dementia or confuse. Just recently one of the resident had a bad fall. I did what I needed to do and sent this resident to the hospital as fast as I can. As a result I got written up for it because they said my documentation is incomplete. Also that same night there's another fall on the other hall but not as serious as the other one I just mentioned. I talked to the DON and told her she needs to switch me to the other hall where resident's are lot easier to handle. She said she will, but next month. This week I have to go back to the hall I used to work on. I am terrified to go back, and thinking of resigning asap. I don't want to put my license at risk anymore. I don't know what to do. I applied to other jobs already 2 days ago, praying that I would get a new one soon. My question is should I still give my 2 weeks notice? or just say my resignation is effective immediately?.. Please help!! I need your advice on this matter.

[amoLucia]

I can't really tell you what to do - that you need to decide for yourself. But I will tell you that there is no guarantee that a NEXT job will be any better than your first one. On the other hand, it well could be, but you never know when you start.

SN/LTC is tough, and some places are tougher than others. There's no way to tell where your place is.

Good luck for whichever way you go.

[Myapple77]

Thanks for the reply @amoLucia. Sorry been very busy and no time to update this topic. :)