ERnurSe2U

"You can do only one thing at a time" Or as I hum to myself " One step at a time" I like that quote. Actually my burnout ended last night or rather this morning when I turned my badge into the nurse manager. Got my farwells said, and walked out the door. It was such a feeling of relief. Now on to the next great adventure.

Burnout is one of the major problems in my ER. We are always short RN's and Techs. We have nurses and techs leaving by the handful. It is nothing to see 25+ patients per RN in a busy shift. The management is not supportive at all, if anything happens it is always the nurses fault. Where I have been working is always out of supplies, meds you name it. It is a place that is waiting for a disaster to happen and then everyone will go down with it and the administration will be no where around to stand up for thier staff.:angryfire I worked a shift recently that went to H*** in a handbasket and fast, the charge nurse had been a LPN for 3 years, just got her RN had it for 3 weeks, I was the senior nurse with 1 1/2 yrs experience, had 2 that had 6 months and to top it off had 2 orientees. Was a bad night several traumas, several codes, you name it I think that everyone knew our staffing and came in that night. I swore that I would never be in that position again. Today is my last shift as an ER nurse at this facility, I can hardly wait for it to end. I am going to start doing travel nursing, hopefully it won't be as bad.:balloons: I figure that it is possible that my worst day at a different facility will be my best day where I have been at. :balloons: