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I have decided that I am going to leave my current job. I work as needed only now and my boss is considered to be HR department. I don't have a nurse manager anymore. When I go to hand in my two weeks notice letter on Monday would it be okay to just leave it with the HR secretary to give to the director of HR? What are your thoughts? I've never met the director before by the way....

Hi All! I was just curious what the difference in salaries for APN's is state to state. Most specificallly interested in Texas because that is where I live! :)

Are there many schools for a masters of science in nursing - nurse practioner program around the Houston, TX area? Has anyone attended or graduated from one? If so, could you tell me about it?

Thank you to everyone who wrote replies! I have not been back on this website in some time! I tried to stick out my job that I was working at when I wrote this b/c I needed the money at the time to help with wedding expenses. I got married in October so sometime after that I was able to move to a prn position. I still work on the same floor but I only have to work a minimum of 40 hrs/month. It is nice in some ways b/c I've just started back running again and I am sleeping again which is great of course :) But it is still a night shift position which still messes up my sleep cycle,I still hate it, and obviously the money isn't great. I've started back the job search and have been religiously searching the internet. I'm thinking about posting my resume on a large job search network. I've been looking for public health and school nurse positions again...No current openings to be found right now without relocation. So things are better....less time at work = a happier me lol However, I miss the paycheck! My husband and I are okay without the additional money but I still would like to have it! I hope everyone is doing okay in whatever they are doing now!

Thank you to everyone who wrote about your feelings towards nursing in this posting! I feel so much better knowing that others feel the same way that I do about nursing. My husband says he understand how I feel about nursing (which I really appreciate), but I don't think anyone can truly understand it until you've worked as a nurse. I just started working prn ....40 hrs/month because I couldn't take working at full time at my job anymore, but couldn't afford to quit all together until I found something else. I've worked step-down for about a year and a half and i've worked tele/med/surg for a year. I moved to another state in between jobs is why the i had the job change. Both jobs have been utterly tiring, exhausting, stressful, anxiety producing, etc. etc. Even now working part time, I will get off work say a saturday morning (i work night shift....and don't even get me started on what a zombie nightshift has made me!) and I will already start dreading the fact that I will have to go to work in another 6 days...seriously 6 days. That is pretty sad. It is definitely not because I am bothered by working. I sometimes think back to jobs I had in college very fondly in comparison to nursing. I have been seriously researching going back to school for either radiology technologist, ultrasonagrapher, dental hygienist, or speech therapist. But I dread the idea of having to go back to school and the expenses it would entail. I have a BSN and also a BA in Psychology. I have been searching religiously on the internet for something to do in nursing aside from working in the hospital. Yet I only seem to be finding hospital based jobs or home health. I would love it if I could do something with the education I already have and not have to go back to school. I don't have to love my job, I don't even have to like my job. I just want to be able to tolerate my job at the very least. To all of you who have changed professions or got away from bedside nursing. Where did you start your job search? Would it be most helpful to post my resume on a a large job search network? Did you start calling around to the insurance companies (for those of you who work for them)? I have looked online for public health nurse positions in my county and have not found any thus far. No school nurse positions currently available....They want you to have public health or pediatric experience however. I would just like to hear some stories about how you found your new job?

I have cried more than I can count. I have been a nurse for over a year now. 1 year and 5 months to be exact. Thinking about a change of scenery...

Okay, this is a bit of a long story. I am still a relatively new nurse. i've been a nurse for 2 years, but have only worked like 1 year and 5 months. I graduated in one state and after school moved out of state to where my fiance' was finishing up school. I started on a step down unit that I had no desire to work in, but i needed a job and that's what i found being a new graduate. (in a smaller city). i never wanted to work the floor but they promised me after i got a years experience in i could change positions. so i worked a year and 3 months, my fiance graduated school, and we moved out of state again. so i started the job search all over again. being new to the area, i started looking online for jobs. there were more hospitals here so i was able to find some positions. but once again, i heard the same thing at the hospital i now work at. if you work here on this unit for awhile then we'll move you to another after we see how you do here kind of thing. so i took a position working the floor. i have been working there for 2 months now. i never liked working at my old job, but i tolerated it. now i feel like i'm starting over. i worked nights before and i did okay. i had a schedule that was more blocked than the one i have now. i worked 6 12 hr in one week and then i had a week off. so it was easier to adjust i guess. i had a break for a few months now i am back working nights and i can not sleep. i work more of a 2 day off 2 day on 2 day off 2 day on kind of schedule. i am stressed all of the time. i feel like crying everytime i even think about going to work. I don't know what else I would like to do, but i know i can't keep doing this. I feel like quitting every single night. I feel like the job is affecting my health. The people around me are suffering from my job. I am lucky if i eat more than 1 meal a day. I have 2 degrees. i have a bachelor of arts in psychology and my bsn. i feel like there has to be something out there for me. i have thought about going back to school, but there are things about nursing that i truly love. i love the brief :wink2: moments you actually get to really talk to your patients without thinking of something else at the same time. i guess *after my VERY long winded complaint story* i'm just wondering. has anyone felt like this? what did you do to overcome it? is anyone feeling like this now? I was thinking about applying for a school nurse position. it requires 2 years experience however and i don't have that yet. but i thought i could try for it. i enjoyed my community health rotation in school. how bad would it looked to a prospective new employer if i have only been employed at my current job for 2 months? any thoughts or words of advice would be appreciated :redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe