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I am leaving nursing, and I am looking for resources, communities, or conversations with others who have done the same. The biggest reason I am leaving is not simply burnout or a bad workplace. It is that I no longer accept the underlying identity framework of nursing. I reject the idea that nursing is who a person is. I reject the idea that it is a calling that creates obligations beyond the professional role. I reject the idea that a nurse's willingness to sacrifice is part of the value proposition of the job. I view nursing as skilled labor. It requires knowledge, training, judgment, technical ability, and expertise. That expertise has value, and it should be treated like any other skilled profession. A person provides a service, receives compensation, and has professional responsibilities while performing that role. The way nursing is often framed feels like a bad business arrangement: workers are encouraged to see the job as a moral identity, while institutions benefit from the expectation that nurses will give more because they are "called.” The language of sacrifice can become a substitute for fair compensation, reasonable working conditions, and professional boundaries. I believe patients deserve competent, ethical nursing care. But I do not believe that means nurses owe the profession their identity, their lives, or unlimited personal sacrifice. I am looking for resources, discussions, books, podcasts, or communities from people who have fully exited nursing—not just those who changed specialties or found a different nursing role. I am interested in people who have separated who they are from what they used to do. I also want to be clear: I am not looking for suggestions about returning to nursing, finding a different nursing specialty, or "trying one more thing" within the profession. I have made my decision, and I am not looking to be persuaded otherwise. I have no intellectual interest in exploring ways to remain connected to nursing or reinvent myself within the profession. For me, every day I continue to hold a nursing license is another day waiting to build the life I actually want.

Has anyone ever worked with a nursing career coach? I'm curious how the experience was. I'm graduated and went straight to the OR and started traveling after about 18 months. I like many aspects of the role, but I'm really tired of what comes with it: If I got back to FTE, there's always difficulty taking vacations even tho it's part of the compensation package, many hospitals require call for an entire weekend or overnight between regular shifts (unsafe to work for that long) Being in a position where other people (surgeons, scrubs, charge nurses, etc) want to cut corners on standards of care to save time or just out of sheer laziness, but it's my job to make sure it's done correctly, and it's my license on the line if something goes wrong (think scrubs and surgeons who don't want to complete counts) Basically, I want to be responsible for my own work and not be in a situation where other people's apathy is my problem to sort. When I started nursing school, there was so much talk about how there's so many things you can do as a nurse, but the options seem to be limited to the floor, home health, clinic, and LTC. I'd like to figure out what opportunities exist beyond that low hanging fruit, and I thought a career counselor could help. Does anyone have a suggestion?

1) standard protocol is to disregard anonymous reporting. Your boss is sabotaging you and you have grounds to take action 2) Document everything and file an official complaint with HR, be prepared to hire an attorney 3) If complaining up the chain of command isn't your cup of tea, quit and go travel. You'll more than double your income and they'll learn a real lesson about playing games. In the current market, it absolutely astounds me that any nurse manager would pull a stunt like that.

Thanks. I emailed BON and never heard back. I finally looked up the CA NPA and it says you need 16 total hours of social sciences (I’m assuming that means general psychology and developmental psychology, which is 6 hours) and specifically lists A&P w/lab and microbiology w/lab.

Hi, I moved from CA to the Midwest to complete an associate degree program. I plan to move back to CA after graduation, but I’m not sure whether I will have completed all of the class requirements —t program is full accredited, but I know that CA has a list of prerequisites for all nursing programs, some of which I will have taken (AP 1&2, Gen Psych, Dev Psych), others I will not have completed by graduation (Micro, Chem). Does anyone know whether those courses are required for a CA license, are they just prerequisites for admission to nursing school in CA, or both? I’ll have to take them regardless so that I can finish a BSN, but I still would like to know if I’ll qualify for a nursing license in CA. Thanks!