Joni Petersen

After nursing for 24 years I am now retired. Accurate depiction that didn't occur as much when I began my career. Nurses required to do more and more with the average complexity of patients increasing at the same time. I wish I had a nickel every time some administrator said...."we don't need to hire someone else to do that, the nurses can do it". When I first started, the best CNA's on the floor would eventually become RN's. Now they quit and become Baristas. Pay is better with less stress. As an added stress, is the increase of the opioid addicted patient. And I'm sorry, the Med/Surg floor is not a Psych ward and all that goes with that. It actually put me over the edge. Had to leave nursing a lot earlier than I had intended. Thanks for a forum to let us vent......