MBarger

I'm a fairly new nurse and am upset with current job.. first job I could get as a new nurse. I want to make a difference.. is that such a bad thing to want? I feel no progress with this current job I achieved my LPN last February. I'll be 22 this year. I currently work at a rehab facility. For the past few months I've only been PRN because I can't handle the stress any more.. I now work every other weekend and even the days I have to go in I dread. I try every day to find a different job that I feel I may be happy in, I'm thinking a doctor's office or something like that.. but so far I've come up short.. Some days I just feel so upset thinking I made a wrong decision by going straight to nursing school. I love to help people and comfort, but where I'm at now it feels like I barely see any of my residents because I'm too busy doing too much work. I want to be able to connect with my patients, I want to feel like I'm making a difference. That's why I wanted to be a nurse. I wanted to be able to change a small piece of the world just by caring for someone.. I just don't feel like my current job is making that possible. Maybe I'm naïve for thinking I could actually make a difference.