Ready to toss in the towel

[chcgoblue]

:crying2:Over the past couple of years I have come to this site for answers and occasional comfort to know that Im not alone.

Today I feel alone. After 21 years of nursing, both lpn and for the past 3 years rn, Im ready to give up.

I recently started a new job at a local hopital on a tele unit. Im very comfortable with my skills and the nursing isnt the issue. Its the computer! I spend 75% of my time in the computer. Im slow at it for sure, but today i had to use 3 different computers because of malfunctions of some sort with all of them.

Its a tough enough job that we do, taking care of people who seem to not appreciate what we do. I feel like a waitress, a maid and generally the one that gets dumped on most of the time. I understand that patients are hurting and sick, again not a new nurse. I just dont know if the direction that healthcare is going is a good one.

Its always been about the almighty dollar, but now that is all I see. Please is there anyone out there who can cast a positive light in my direction? I hate to give up all these years, but Im not sure I can keep going.

[interleukin]

Many of the computer programs were not developed by end user nurses. As such, they are incredibly dense, clunky and unintuitive. When coupled with unpredictable hardware glitches you get nurses tearing their hair out and spending vast amounts of time waiting for computers to respond, rebooting, or just trying to figure out how it works.

But read the journals or follow hospital PR campaigns and everything is just beautiful in world of nursing.

Fellow nurses, the accumulation of tasks(with more coming all the time because of nursing's pathological inability to say "enough") and the slowing of our ability to perform them is dragging nursing into the gutter along with your patients.

Write your CEO and intelligently list reasons why your patients are being put at risk. If you get "warned" then you know that's not the kind of place that really cares about your concerns. And if "reboot" is the only answer you keep getting, you better be prepared for things to the manure to get only deeper.

[chicarn, BSN, RN]

sorry to hear this, you are not alone. after just 3 years of nursing, I quitted my hospital job just 1 week ago. God I feel so relieved and I'm taking a break now. After that I will look for another job other than bedside nursing.

I know that I should wait until I recure another job and the market is tight , but I think life is too short and my health is precious to me and my family.

This is not a nursing that I love. We should give it another name other than nursing. I'm tired of other NURSES in management not supporting bedside nurses, just looking after themselves and their bonuses, I'm tired of patients and family who became ungratful and abusive to us because the cafeteria forget their coffee or the doctor refuse to renew their morphine. I m tired of to have 3 to 4 ICU like patients in addition to my other 3 patients, plus admission and discharge. I'm tired to do nursing job, cna job (CNA also overwelmed or some CNA just disappear) . I can't say that "I'm busy" I should say "OK,will do" with a smile. Everybody from other department say that we work very hard, did someone spoke for us (ie Doctors). the smallest mistake will do, we will get trown under the bus and every body forget other accomplishments. I wish Bedside nurses could unit and fight hospital cooporations for their right and the right of their patients.

I'm so to rant but I'm one of the nurses who trown the towel and freed themselves from the "Slavery of 21st Century".

To the OP, big hug :hug: