dburkhart

Your comments help me to see where my issue has started and that is with my transition from Lpn to RN that may be the problemishes. I need to reflect on this and make a commitment to myself to think more in the RN role. Thank you.

Thank you for all your insight. Sometimes it takes someone outside the situation to help. I am so glad I posted here. I will be doing some definite self reflection and stepping out of myself to improve. Husbands are no help because I in his eyes I'm perfect but to you all I'm not so you have raised some good questions for me to ask myself. Thanks to everyone. I will keep you posted.

I have been a nurse for almost 20 years, first an LPN, now an RN. I have worked in long term care for the bulk of my career with a 6 month tour in an ob/gynecology office and 3 months in acute care Cardiology. Now that I have been a nurse for so long I can't seem to keep a job for more than just a few months. This last job I was buying dressing change supplies and bread and necessary items for meals on weekends. My heart is broken because I had such close relationships with so many of my residents and I am worried about their care and basic needs. But all that aside I am a good nurse, I was taught to develop good relationships with CNA'S because they can make you or break you. When I was terminated the boss said that maybe I was burned out from being a nurse for so long and because I care for my father in law at home. I do not feel burned out. I absolutely love what I do. When I am not nursing I am lost, but my care goes deeper than just the nurse for these folks. I visit with them, I buy things for them, I do activities with them and encourage them, on top of the nursing portion. Why do I keep getting fired? Am I burnt out and just don't feel it? How do I regain control of my career and stop losing my job? Am I the only one out there with this problem? Please help, anyone!

I have been a nurse for 17 years, first as an LPN for 15 and an RN for the past two years. I am seriously considering getting out of Nursing altogether because of the cliques and politics. I am a very social person just not typically when I'm at work. I will stand and socialize for a few minutes here and there when time allows, but I don't stand around when the back biting and putting others down starts, I don't sit for hours in the bosses office with the door shut, or stand around whispering things to others. All that being said any time any thing happens from the most minute to something major I am the one who ends up getting terminated. I even go so far as to tell bosses during the interview process that I am not a "cliquey" type of person and their response is always....oh well aren't like that here anyway. What is wrong with me? Why do I always have to be the fall guy?