NurseGhostHunter

Insurance companies and insurance management companies will often hire RN's. I think pharmaceutical companies will also hire RN's for research and maybe sales? I feel ya. I was burnt out after a year and I was ready to get out too when I got an office nursing job.

Yes we have paper charting at my work but I don't do much charting and at my old job we did electronic charting and I still signed my name and title an obscene amount of time every day. At my current position that's pretty much what I do all day is sign paperwork as an RN signature is required and my office mates are LPNs.

I'm a relative new grad and I remember getting my first paycheck and thinking, "Damn...so not worth it". I get paid the average RN wage but for all the work I did it didn't seem like enough. It wasn't even as much as my last office job (a salaried job so when you divide all the hours I put in it put it more in perspective) paid. Now I have an office nursing job making more money than I did when I was a floor nurse so it's starting to seem worth it.

I was in the same boat as you after a year of bedside nursing in a long term care center I was burnt out. I applied for a night shift position at my current facility and they offered me a management position instead and I jumped on it. So far it's the best decision I have ever made and am so blessed that I was given this opportunity. I have learned so much more in this position about nursing and patient care than I ever did actually doing patient care.(who has time to learn when you have 30 people wanting their med NOW). Try getting into LTC and seeing if you can learn any MDS coding so you can maybe do MDS somewhere. So hopefully you will have luck with that. I would say that if you want a quick route to getting away from floor nursing LTC is the way to go. I am glad I got into LTC vs a Hospital b/c I'd still be a floor nurse most likely. Are there any insurance companies where you live? If so many health insurance companies hire RN's to answer pt questions and to assessments. Some factories hire nurses.

At my job, and with most nursing jobs I guess, I sign my name and title A LOT. SO much that I sometimes catch myself almost signing my title in normal every day signatures. Like signing a check, I almost always want to add RN after my signature. I have been able to catch myself because I feel it would be pretty corny to do that. Why I'm asking this is because I was just reading an obit for a former patient's husband and there was a note of condolence from someone we'll call Susie Baker, RN. She was not this patient's nurse as far as I could tell because in the note she recalled sitting around drinking wine with him and being his friend. I just thought it was strange that in that setting she would use her title. I know if I wrote a letter of condolence in the obituary section of the paper for one of my patients and I did not mention that I was their nurse I would think it a bit tacky to sign my title after my name. What say you. DO you sign your title after your name in non work situations?

I don't have anything against nursing items like keychains, rings, tee shirts, etc even though I don't own any nursing related items myself (I've only been a nurse for a little over a year so maybe my excitement level could change somewhere down the road) but I do have to admit I find the personalized license plates like one I saw this weekend that read "Nurse1" a bit over the top and a tad tacky for my taste. But then again to each their own and as long as they aren't hurting anyone I shouldn't say anything.