Nurzelady

I'm having the same problem here in California and it is terrible. At first getting cancelled once in awhile was nice, now its every week! And it's hurting my bank account. The census gets so low and everyone on my unit loses hours. I'm trying to find other options because I can not do this for the entire summer. I have loans to pay off.

Quit, you cant get another job withut a license especially if you feel its being jeopardized

Has anyone ever obtained or heard of a Certification as a Nurse Educator. The one I found is a short 3 day course but I was wondering of someone can really obtain a job involving nurse education with that.

Tell us a little bit more of the type of nursing you're doing right now. If it's bedside, maybe you need to just pull away from bedside nursing and focus on the things you like about your job and try something outside of patient care

Don't focus on the comments on here because if you focus on all the negative things people say on here, it will discourage you. Just be determined to write your own future.

Thank you!

I'm starting to look now. I'm not familiar though with all the appropriate websites to find one, but as of right now I don't really see any openings

I've been trying to figure that out, but I really don't know. Things I do like though, is teaching, being able to relate to my patients by talking to them, and seeing an improvement in them from the care we give them. I wanna do something where I give people the quality of their life back from whatever they're suffering with. I hate seeing so many coming in and out of the hospital with the same problems. It's like everything we did, didn't even matter. I'm thinking something that involves preventive health or public health.

To those who told me to just "suck it up", "don't be a quitter", it's not that simple. How many of you have worked on a medsurg floor before? Here's a better history of what I've dealt with in Medsurg. First job, was the worst. I was a fresh new grad, only worked there 3mons b4 I left, because I was making too many mistakes because I had a preceptor who taught me all the "shortcuts" and it ended up backfiring on me, NOT her. Plus on top of the extreme anxiety and stress, I just had to go. The job I have now is better but it's still a stressful unit because it is Medsurg. I've been harrased, had a several doctors yell at me over the phone, had confused patients fight me, yelling across the halls, a few falls, despite hourly roundings, had some mean coworkers give me a hard time during report, and cleaned more poop than I ever imagined. There's just so little respect in this job, you rarely get appreciated for the things that you do do. And you deal with this ALL the time. Until you've walked in my shoes and seen what I've seen, please don't just tell me to "suck it up" and jeopardize the quality of my life and happiness for a paycheck. It's really making me hate nursing altogether. And I've read the posts in the medsurg specialty area, this is the norm.

I work in a smaller hospital so we don't have all those resources. And nope I can not confide in my preceptor. He's a guy in whom I have nothing in common with. I delegate, I call on my charge nurse, I talk to my cnas, all those things. I don't have a problem with time management, I always finish on time and get my work done. I've been applying to jobs since last year an no luck yet.

Honestly I don't perceive the way you do as "quitting". The way I see it is like trying to fit a puzzle piece into a space that doesn't belong there. It's about finding what's best for you so that you can give more to the people you're working for. My ultimate goal in life is not to be the greatest Medsurg nurse ever so why should I stay in something I don't like doing? I never liked Medsurg, in fact I've hated it since nursing school but because of the economy, its the only kind of jobs that's been made available to me. I struggled, I suffered, I worked hard but this not a field of nursing that interests me.

Oh no you misunderstood me, i've been working at my current job for 9months consecutively. My 1st job was over a year ago before I moved and started this one. As far as this job I have had a verbal warning bcuz I overlooked a medication. It's just so hard bcuz I've grown up always succeeding and being the smartest at whatever I do. Nursing is the first thing I've ever done that's made me feel like a failure and I don't want to tolerate it anymore. I want out.

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I have 9months experience in medsurg/tele and i need another job right away. This job is causing me too much stress and I don't think I can do it anymore. I honestly want to leave hospital nursing alltogether and need some advice on how to get out! Sometimes I go home crying and feeling like I truly suck as a nurse. Help! And please dont tell me to stick through it, its going to get better talk bcuz this is is my 2nd medsurg job and I know this isnt for me

Thank you everybody for your comments. I really appreciate and have become a valuable tool in my decision making. Thank you again.