20plusyearRN

Most of mine are individual texts. I used to work a lot of OT...but the older I get the more I am just tired of it. I guess I am just going to have to start ignoring them.

Do you guys get called every day you have off to work extra? If so how do you handle it? I have worked extra, switched back and forth from day shift to night shift, but I am tired...and I hate to say no all the time, but I am tired of being called every single weekend!

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. I know here the schools are having trouble filling the the nursing spots. Fewer RNs graduating and then a lot can't pass the NCLEX after they do and give up. Both of my kids said they wanted to become RNs but I have talked both of them out of it. Telling them it is not the same profession I went into years ago. I guess after all these years I am a little burned out. People are not the same, we are abused a lot more than we were when I started...and we used to be taken up for some...not anymore....the patient is ALWAYS right! Sorry got a bit off topic there.

I was really just interested more in peoples thoughts on this subject.... maybe I should have worded the thread differently. I think this will further stress a system that is already about to its breaking point. I am more than half way through my career...I have 1 kid in college and next year I will have another one starting college. Going back to school for me is not an option...but like I said earlier, if I did it would be for something else...not nursing. There will be jobs...the hospitals are not the only places to work. I am not concerned about that. Just wanted to throw it out there and see what others thought.

Arkansas. I know of no RN without a job who wants one here. A lot of us have more than one job!

At this time none of the present employees are being let go if they don't have a BSN, just no new employees will be hired w/o one. Just see it as a trend.

With the projected shortages of heathcare workers in general...not just nurses this is a poor time for facilities to alienate any nurse. BSN programs can not keep up with the demand that is coming at least in my state, because there are just a handful statewide. Interestingly enough facilities cite "Magnet Status" as the reason for the push for all BSN prepared RNs when that status doesn't require it and is supposed to increase our job satisfaction while providing top notch care. Just a few thoughts....

I won't get a BSN...if I go back to school it will not be in nursing.

I am diploma RN and I feel I have just as much skill and knowledge as a BSN prepared RN coming out of school now being that I have been in the field for 20+ years...but I now feel as if we are being pushed out of the hospitals as more and more go to a policy of hiring only BSN RNs. What to you think?