houdini15

It is so unfortunate that after so much tine spent in nursing that I find myself not qualified to do many of the jobs...not a case manger...don,t know insurance. tried to advance with Risk Management Liscence but can't gret job because have no experience (Wasted time and money) If I took a refresher course it would not help... I cannot go back to bedside nursing becase i have RA and fatigue easily. I am trying to think of ways I can use my skills to work for myself....doing home visits...taking seniors to doctor appointments...help communication between doctor and patient....just running some things thru my mind....houdini15

Skinners Rats comment hits the nail right on the head....why I retired....was forced to retire by institutions that do not value the experience of a nurse of 30 years....After 25 years of working with patients....Med surg...15 in ED..then Imaging Services...promoted to Risk Management where I was promised I would get training.....NOT..It was a huge learning curve...computer, meetings, reports, deadlines...all skills I had never been exposed to.....Instead was treated like Skinners Rat, bullied by Director...to the point that I made a terrible mistake of walking out of the job....25 years of excellent record destroyed....Was so devastated it took me a year and a half until I went back....This time Performance Improvement...Had a boss who did not give any instruction on job...I asked if she was going to explain my duties and she said "If you think I need to"""...should have quit that first week...stuck it out...ridiculed by brats 20 to 30 years my junior ...(uneducated)...because I worked too hard and didn't know the computer as well as them...even got published in a textbook and a certification work related with no recognition...might as well have been invisible...until it came to the complaints that my work was not consistent....(decided I would start taking lunch, that way I might not get so tired by 4pm) The Politics...what one person wanted 8 other got upset because it gave them work or worse yet exposed their inadequacy...I just couldn't win.....After 17 months ended up having 2 surgeries...one planned and one emergency...(Planned one for totally destroyed R elbow from RA...pain was excruiating) and because my LOA ran over 16 days longer than it should I was laid off...nice to be valued...And now..Some interviws but....Last boss is trashing me_huge turnover in her department....And hands on nursing is too dated....I am just too old and too tired and too fed up to work so hard to get another job...and to have to compete with the new nursing kids that are getting their master degrees straight out of nursing school....thanks for reading....next one will be shorter....