Ridiculous accreditation efforts by ignorant regulators and management
Mind numbing charting
Neglect and disregard of wellbeing of frontline workers
Escalation of above since Covid
FYI, I have died and gone to job Heaven and will be starting my new job at the farm store in October. I have been promised no stress, and will not be required to wear a mask! Not only that, I'll get an employee discount!
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Whenever we make plans, we always visualize how it will be.
For example, when we were in the stages of becoming a nurse, we projected and saw ourselves as helping others, performing our tasks competently, and receiving both internal & external gratification. We believed we were going to feel good about ourselves, what we did, and be adequately monetarily reimbursed.
Numerous threads here on allnurses are of disappointed individuals who did not correctly project. After completing their nursing program and getting a job, they ended up, as many members conveyed, being extremely upset over the way things turned out.
I find this situation difficult to understand, but there are those who did not, or could not, factor in all the variables. Unconsidered variables in any given situation can always end up in nothing short of disaster.
So, I was wondering, @Emergent, how do you project yourself in your new found situation? Do you see yourself as working in your farm store for years to come, being internally & externally gratified? Will you wake up every day and meet the morning with a big ole cosmic "howdy!"?
What else do you plan to do with with your new found freedom, leaving you with extra time & energy not sucked from you from your nursing job?
I plan on working my very part-time schedule until I get too old. According to the lady who told me about the job, it's very easy and low stress and the bosses are the nicest people. The store has a pleasant atmosphere and you get to wear casual attire.
I'll try to take good care of my health, spend time with friends and family, and get a good economic return from my property by growing fruits and vegetables, and raising livestock for meat.
I will be very frugal and count my blessings which are many.
After the newness of not having to spend time preparing for work, working, and winding down from work, plus regular TCB, one will find there are many hours in the day.
I understand now why those who have no real outside interests continue to work even though they could comfortably retire. After having to deal with, say, a high stress job like nursing, we must have something on which to focus our energy and time.
I strongly encourage anyone planning to retire to find an interest that you love and can do endlessly. I am a social recluse, go into town about once a week, and keep busy every day of my waking hours with TCB, art, working out, and bicycling.
And in accordance with what LDT said, "find it", start doing it now, and make it the foundation of your time, something you can always do anywhere.
Preferably, find it early on, and not a few minutes from retiring. By the time you're about to leave you should be well into your craft.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
23 minutes ago, Leonardo Del Toro said:
Preferably, find it early on, and not a few minutes from retiring. By the time you're about to leave you should be well into your craft.
Amen.
My brother told me years ago that when he retired, he wanted to take up painting landscapes, and he was a pretty good nonpracticing artist. I said at the time, "Why not start now?", thinking maybe he would look forward to it, and be disappointed that maybe it wasn't all he'd hope it would be.
My older brother died before he could fulfill his dream of painting landscapes. He did have other interests, however, like carpentry, which he pursued as long ad he could. He built a barn totally out of scavenged bricks thrown away from the steel mill where he worked.
My younger sister was diagnosed with terminal cancer before the age of 62. She was diagnosed in March and passed away in June. She was very limited in activities the last few months of her life.
So whenever my self critical inner voice starts to give me grief for the voluminous hours I spend in my art room, I remember my deceased sibs- and many others- and thank The Forces That Be I am able to enjoy my retirement.
It's another reason I applaud Emergent's decision to do what she's doing. Life is short, and it grows shorter the older we get, so we need to go and rip it out by the roots and suck it dry.
I have considered leaving nursing as well and working at a nursery (plants). Are you going to continue renewing your license or are you completed done?
They though nurses were heroes. They don't think of the toll this job takes on people, emotional and physical. We finally got to a critical point when they're finding out that, their idea of heroes was wrong. We turned out to be just people doing a job.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
My medical nurse wife Belinda asked me the reason I renewed my license and I said it was because of variables. Something could happen that I would have to return to work and I might as well work as a nurse, if for no reason other than the money & benefits.
Regarding heroes and people that just do their jobs:
One definition of a hero is someone who redeems society. By being positive, contributing members of society, in a way, all of us have been heroes, especially nurses.
Another definition someone gave as one who is a hero is that person who persevered and did their job for five minutes longer.
We've all been there.
The concept of hero has attained something of a celebrity status. Joseph Campbell, who beloved in the redemption of society hero concept, said that celebrities act for themselves, and not necessarily for others.
I went to the farm store in my new home town to see if I’d want to work there. It’s one of my life long obsessions. I’ll be done with nursing in about 6 months.
I went to the farm store in my new home town to see if I’d want to work there. It’s one of my life long obsessions. I’ll be done with nursing in about 6 months.
Today I started cutting up my scrub tops and made head scarves out of them. I will be wearing them at my new job, I like to wear something on my head and it will fit in quite well. I made 7 of them of them today. I'm also going to make a small quilt to hang on the wall out of the scraps.
I think I'm just going to let my license lapse this Summer. I don't want to do anything in healthcare again and I have this regular job, the pay will go up gradually but it will never be anything stupendous, but it's something I can do well into my 70s. There's a old Rodeo guy that is in his 80s that is just a wonderful employee there, it's the kind of place that you can work at part time until you are one foot into the grave.
Patient service reps pitted against clinical staff. Management knows there isn't enough staff to complete all tasks. They sit back and watch the fireworks fly!
Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.
I am so happy for you and simultaneously so jealous ? I'm on medical leave but have to go back to nursing in November. I was only 18 when I started school and had no idea the true responsibilities of a nurse. If I knew I would have picked something else.
Nursing has damaged my mental health badly. Every day I perseverate on past mistakes. There is one incident that I think about every day for the last year, even though others have told me it's not a big deal. I wish I could go back in time and not become a nurse. I would seriously re-live the last 8 years if it meant not ending up like this. = ( I am really glad you're out of nursing and found a low stress job that you enjoy!! Keep us posted!
Davey Do
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Whenever we make plans, we always visualize how it will be.
For example, when we were in the stages of becoming a nurse, we projected and saw ourselves as helping others, performing our tasks competently, and receiving both internal & external gratification. We believed we were going to feel good about ourselves, what we did, and be adequately monetarily reimbursed.
Numerous threads here on allnurses are of disappointed individuals who did not correctly project. After completing their nursing program and getting a job, they ended up, as many members conveyed, being extremely upset over the way things turned out.
I find this situation difficult to understand, but there are those who did not, or could not, factor in all the variables. Unconsidered variables in any given situation can always end up in nothing short of disaster.
So, I was wondering, @Emergent, how do you project yourself in your new found situation? Do you see yourself as working in your farm store for years to come, being internally & externally gratified? Will you wake up every day and meet the morning with a big ole cosmic "howdy!"?
What else do you plan to do with with your new found freedom, leaving you with extra time & energy not sucked from you from your nursing job?
Enquiring reader(s) want(s) to know.