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Dear Nurse Beth I have been a Psy nurse and correctional nurse for 7 yrs. I love them both and mostly have worked with adolescents. I had left my last job due to no salary increase and took a job that pays more but now 1.5 years into it I am not happy. It continues to be in child Psy but I feel all I do is chart barely sit, my safety is at risk and constantly short staffed. I was written up 2 weeks ago for missing a discharge order. I had been so busy I forgot to check the oder for my third discharge. From what I heard my supervisor ripped me apart behind my back but when he wrote me up he was all smiles. I took this write up bad and was down in the dumps for 2 weeks. Just yesterday I also felt that my supervisor wanted me to give a PRN to a PT who didn't need it. I explained to him my rational he still insisted to give thorazine to a patient who was just sitting in the hallway but was not actively agitated at all. Before he left he came to me and said the clinical director tor who is a SW suggest I give something to this patient. It made me more mad because I felt he wasn't listening to me. I feel this job pays well but mental and emotionally very streesful. I want to return to correctional and the old job I had. My old coworkers want me to return but a few coworkers say I should say away and venture on new things. Help so confused and frustrated.