Pumpkinpie314

Thank you for your response. I hear you on the ALFs, I thought it would be like that. I know the grass isn't greener. I hadn't considered home health. I will definitely look into these avenues!

I'm feeling much the same way and I just posted a similar question. I feel rushed, like there aren't enough hours in a shift to pass meds to make everyone happy, treatments are late. Nevermind if there's an admission in the midst of the chaos. I'm thinking assisted living has to be a better environment.

Hey Nurses, I really need some advice. I was a hospice aide for about 5 years with a company I loved. I graduated as an LPN in in 2018 and worked per diem as a staff nurse in a rehab/long term care facility. I missed hospice and the one on one interactions, time with families, the slower pace. A friend offered me a position with a new hospice agency in the area and I jumped at the opportunity. I loved my job until COVID hit. My new role was to get gowned up in trash PPE and do intake with the RN via phone. We lost half our census in a weekend. I saw deaths that shouldn't have happened the way they happened. Facilities administrators' despised me because hospice was allowed to travel building to building and I was not welcomed. ( I understand why 100%) Anyway I needed a break from hospice and so I a job as a charge nurse in a nearby, small rehab/long term care facility. I am floated between 3 floors. Yesterday I was short-staffed cnas, the ones I do have are full of eye rolls and sarcastic remarks, and never got the weights I asked for. I had an orient to train. The computer was down for 2 hours of morning med pass. All the patients are yelling for their "LATE PRN". Three admissions and a room change nobody told me about today. Today the DON asked why the admission wasn't completed on my shift. I'm so over it. Where should I go from here? Being a charge nurse is definitely not for me. Is Assisted Living an easier pace? A better environment? I don't want to go to work everyday hating my job. Thanks in advance