chcgoblue

Thank you to all who replied to me. I feel your pain, all of you. You ALL said it so well. I do think its time to look in another direction. What nursing has become, is not what nursing is suppose to be. I would gladly give a couple dollars of my pay to have more help on the floor. What about the upper heirarchy who get paid so much more for policing us??? It saddens me to feel this way but its all true. I feel badly for the new nurses out there. This is not what it is supposed to be like. Thanks again to all.

:crying2:Over the past couple of years I have come to this site for answers and occasional comfort to know that Im not alone. Today I feel alone. After 21 years of nursing, both lpn and for the past 3 years rn, Im ready to give up. I recently started a new job at a local hopital on a tele unit. Im very comfortable with my skills and the nursing isnt the issue. Its the computer! I spend 75% of my time in the computer. Im slow at it for sure, but today i had to use 3 different computers because of malfunctions of some sort with all of them. Its a tough enough job that we do, taking care of people who seem to not appreciate what we do. I feel like a waitress, a maid and generally the one that gets dumped on most of the time. I understand that patients are hurting and sick, again not a new nurse. I just dont know if the direction that healthcare is going is a good one. Its always been about the almighty dollar, but now that is all I see. Please is there anyone out there who can cast a positive light in my direction? I hate to give up all these years, but Im not sure I can keep going.

Hoping this is where I can get some advice. I was an LPN for almost 20 years. I worked acute/subacute/longterm and home care. After feeling like I had done all I could as an LPN I went on and got my RN. Now I am ready to quit nursing altogether. It was the worst move I have ever made. I cant find a job in a hospital, I did a critical care internship that lasted 4 months, but had to give it up due to the 80 mile commute. I have tele experience, am acls cert. trach/vent experience. I am stuck in home care because that is all I could get. I am at my wits end. I feel like Im worthless, no one will even talk to me. All I have been told is that my LPN experience dosent matter. I do agree the RN role is different, but all that experience dosent matter????? If I could find a different line of work I would move on, but im 41 and have been a nurse since I was 20. I never thought I would be in this position. Please, any advice, Im losing it.