I love hospital nursing - I am a NICU/L&D nurse. It's not the work that gave me a nervous breakdown (for real), it was the other nurses. I love the work. I really do. I worked my way up from new grad to charge nurse in a few different facilities. I tried different shifts. It's always the lazy, backbiting, narcissistic nurses on staff that drive me crazy. All of the good nurses with a great work ethic end up leaving. I've taken a few years off, and now I am going back to school for my NP. I'm going to miss bedside nursing terribly, but this is better for my mental health. Maybe you need a little break? Mine was the best thing I could have ever done for myself.