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When I worked at long term care as a RN, some of them were employed by the center and had a office, other LTC was it was split up between a Dr and a NP.

I’ve had this same issue, but I’ve realized the cause, my husband makes enough money to cover the bills, when I had to work to pay bills I did. I know this sounds cruel, but I’m telling you nursing isn’t a “fun job” anymore, never really was fun per say it’s hard hard work. And if you don’t have have to work you won’t, not in nursing anyway. Right now I’m starting a new job in float pool but it’s full time and I know I’m going to hate full time, I will request part time after this peak in Covid. I have implemented goals to keep me at it, such as building new closet with some of my paycheck, vacations I wouldn’t normally be able to go on due to finances and other things to keep me motivated. I know I’m spoiled and have been very fortunate that we set up our life to not rely on my income But as long as you are not forced to work to buy food or pay rent it’s going to be hard to do in nursing especially now in a pandemic. I’m not saying you or I don’t need the money but we have gotten along without it many times and we know we can. I even quit to do sub teaching making 17 hour and same thing happened. So it’s not just nursing for me. I’m working on myself and my growth right now, I mainly want my self respect back which means being more independent and relying less on my husband to take care of me and our home. I suggest doing some self help exercises with books and other resources it’s working for me so far.

I am considering moving to the ER, the manager told me I would go through a program of education and classes through the ena and 8 weeks of preceptorship. Kinda a shorten version of residency. My question is how difficult are the classes for certifications and how difficult is ACLS and PALS to get? I’m feeling overwhelmed with the amount of certifications I’m gonna need in the next 8 weeks but I really do wanna try the ER but I’m afraid if I’m in over my head. It’s going to be stressful enough with a pandemic and then add classes. I’m curious if anyone is doing this or going through it how difficult it has been. I know it’s a completely different version of nursing and I need the classes.

Interesting I just had a ER interview today, I have experience in internal medicine for 2 years and I wasn’t expecting such a difficult interview. I’ve been to many interviews, and I’ve never experienced this before. First scenario, patient comes in with chest pain, what do you do, what labs will be ordered, what else will be done, what meds, where will they go next. Next scenario, elderly patient bp 70/60, hr 135, tired, and resp 25. What do you think this is and what will be ordered, and what would you be doing. (Sepsis is answer I got that but I missed doing blood cultures but got the other parts) other scenario was patient is having a stroke what do you see is happening to patient what do you look out for, what labs will be ordered, what do you anticipate will be given to them. More simple questions were, give a time you went above and beyond for a patient. Give an example of when you had a conflict with a coworker and how did you handle it. Another question was sense you can pretty much work anywhere as nurses right now and any department why are you here in the ER in a pandemic? What is a weakness you have and what would your manager say about you if I asked. I would say study up on basics, like PE, stemi, stroke, sepsis for sure. I didn’t study but thankfully remembered a lot. good luck, my advice just do it, I wouldn’t have gone had I known it would have been so scary but I’m so glad I did!

I am also considering going back to work, I’ve been out for 3 years and I have an interview for ER Wednesday. I didn’t like working internal medicine or med surg in the past, I quit nursing for awhile to care for a family member, I have worked critical care in 2013 for 2 years a transplant unit ,LTC for awhile but never ER. I’m sure they will have a good orientation before starting. I don’t want to leave nursing because I didn’t like those 2 areas. I’m not giving up on nursing there’s so many different specialties to try! Reason I say this is because I don’t think you should do ER unless you are looking for a change and YOU want to do it. Not just because they need you, believe me the entire hospital needs you, any unit actually. I can’t believe how many offers I’m getting, but I’m leaning towards ER because it’s so different from anything I’ve done yet and it’s the only offer I’m excited about. That’s another good indicator of whether you should do it, does it make you excited, how does the idea make you feel?

Thanks for all the replies, I’m debating switching careers my self, I’ve been in nursing for 11 years and I was curious what everyone is doing. I bet we see a flooded market of NPs even worse than now in a year or 2. I’m debating leaving it all together. Everyone is telling me I should just try something new in nursing instead like dialysis or management before giving up on it. I think for me it’s my location, Atlanta. Of course I haven’t worked at northside or Piedmont yet. I loved nursing at the Cleveland clinic in Ohio it was such a amazingly run hospital. I just don’t want to move back to snow. LOL.

I keep hearing all over social media nurses are leaving nursing, as many as 25% in past year was a stat I read in article. If so many people are leaving where are they going, we still have to make a living and I’m just curious do you see nurses quitting all together where you work? I haven’t seen this but I keep reading it, is it another false media story. If so what are they doing for money.

Sounds like Atlanta, compared to Ohio Atlanta is like taking 50 steps back or more. Borderline abuse from CNAs at many facilities. I’ve worked at many down here and no one seems to think these behaviors are inappropriate but me.

I’ve been considering that too. I’m in Atlanta and I used to work at the Cleveland clinic, I like the south and working at the clinic was the most amazing experience of my career. My hope is mayoin Florida is similar but like you I’d like to know before moving there.

This sounds like my story, I’ve been a nurse for 10 years and the longest job I had was 1.3 years. The anxiety has gotten way worse to the point where I’m struggling to even renew my BLS the class causes me to feel very stressed and anxious, I’m trying to figure out if it’s ptsd from something that has happened or what. I’m debating leaving the nursing profession due to my anxiety. I quit jobs due to getting sick before work from anxiety. I get bad diarrhea at least once a week before my shifts. I’m just got hired for a long term care facility it’s running a cart with 20 long term care patients IDK if this will be less stressful than hospital or not. But I understand what your going through. I’m also applying for a position as a teacher teaching a health class at a high school, I think that would be the best option if I can get the job. my next step todsy is finsing a good therapist to see what the cause of this is and if there’s hope for me to stay in nursing.