Nora Joyce ASN, BSN, MSN

Nora Joyce has 19 years experience as a ASN, BSN, MSN and specializes in ICU.

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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce replied to Nora Joyce's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks so much. I don't want to leave nursing, just the politics and stress of working in a hospital. It's become unbearable for me and it's time for me to get out into a less stressful job. I took a hospice job which is so much more flexible w my ki...
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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce replied to Nora Joyce's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Toni-I am right with you. I feel like now that I'm able to see the system in place being a nurse has caused a huge amount of moral distress. It continues to deteriorate and get worse. I just can't fake it anymore. I'm going back to home hospice fo...
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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce replied to Nora Joyce's topic in General Nursing

   I started as a new grad in the surgical ICU in a level one trauma center 18.5 years ago. It's possible. Not easy but if that's where you want to be then you can do it. I've been ICU my whole career and that's where I wanted to be.
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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce replied to Nora Joyce's topic in General Nursing

   I've always done ICU. I stepped away for almost two years bc the pandemic really destroyed my love of nursing. I went back bc the ICU is that dysfunctional relationship you seem to keep going back to but I think this time around it solidified it's no...
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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce replied to Nora Joyce's topic in General Nursing

   Personally it's been too long. Covid pushed me over in terms of exhaustion, stress and moral distress. I really shouldn't have come back but needed a job. I now feel like a square peg trying to shove myself in a round hole and it doesn't work. I'm su...
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   Leaving Bedside

   Nora Joyce posted a topic in General Nursing

   Good morning- I have been a bedside ICU nurse going on 19 years. I left briefly for about a year and a half to take a breather during COVID but I came back. It is not my place anymore. I feel it with every shred of my body. But I am terrified to...