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).
8 hours ago, LibraNurse27 said:
I wish I could go back in time and not become a nurse.
I am so sorry for your trials, but it is so interesting that you say this LibraNurse. I sense the majority of allnurses members are quality nurses, seeing how they're on a nursing website. But there's a lot of us who wonder if we would have been better off haven chosen a less stressful career.
Personally, for me, I believe that I needed nursing to make me humble... well, have more humility than I would have had otherwise. I'm an arrogant a-hole anyway, but I'd be much worse had working as a nurse hadn't taken me down a peg or two and allowed me to experience some relatively profound revelations.
On that "back in time" statement: I've always been attracted to the concept of time travel, but have recently reread the novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, and have studied the graphic novel for its illustrative art.
I'm playing with the idea of time travel in my cartoon art and have posted some of it in the Humor Forum. I'm considering having my cartoon character go back in time and decide NOT to become a nurse.
Specializes in Ambulatory Care, Community Health, HIV.
3 hours ago, Davey Do said:
I'm playing with the idea of time travel in my cartoon art and have posted some of it in the Humor Forum. I'm considering having my cartoon character go back in time and decide NOT to become a nurse
Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.
Yes @Davey Do definitely publish your time travel story! I woke up thinking about my sweet patient who coded in IR while having a PEG placed that no doctors thought was a good idea due to her stage 4 metastatic gastric cancer and inability to breathe unless had NG tube connected to suction and could not tolerate lying flat.
I still feel guilty about not re-checking a blood sugar of 63 from the AM labs although I gave juice and she was on D5, and her death was likely due to being unhooked from suction and trying to lie flat for procedure. The night nurse, night MD, day MDs, and 2 charge nurses also overlooked the blood sugar, and I'm sure they don't think of it a year later. Everyone told me the patient was going to pass away soon anyway and it was a blessing in disguise as she was recommended for palliative care but family wanted aggressive treatment (sweet family who took great care of her but low health literacy and thought palliative meant they were killing her.) Why am I like this? I really think nursing has ruined my life = ( Sorry for the drama = (
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
On 9/28/2021 at 5:35 AM, Davey Do said:
But now, I no longer feel like I'm a nurse and my cartoon character told me so:
So, henceforth, Davey Do will only wear scrubs in nursing flashback comics.
It probably doesn't mean much to you, but it does to me because "Kleidung macht den mann"!
No way, Davey! Wrongway Medical Center is self-absorbed! I've been reading your posts for years and honestly I can't believe they somehow decided it was all about them. ?
I've been wanting to post that thought for a while now.
Emergent, so glad you made the choice to leave. The farm store job sounds perfect.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
1 hour ago, nursel56 said:
No way, Davey! Wrongway Medical Center is self-absorbed! I've been reading your posts for years and honestly I can't believe they somehow decided it was all about them.
Thank you for that vote of confidence and support, nursel.
I am every bit self absorbed as Wrongway, I just look better playing the game.
So while we're on the subject of self absorption, I have to confess that today I am acting altruistically. One of Belinda's grandchildren is experiencing an acute and chronic crisis situation.
I asked her, "What can I do to help?" Belinda replied, "Build a room in the basement so (they) can stay with us". I said, "I'll just move my art room to the basement and (they) can have that room".
It's a nice little room, directly across the hall from the bathroom, that has a beautiful view of the valley.
There are other options for Belinda's grandchild, but in the event the room is needed, it'll be ready. I've worked a good part of the day moving 30 years of furniture, art supplies & works to the basement.
In the event the room is not needed, I told Belinda that she could have it for her space. Belinda is so stressed out with her work on IMU, and now this, she could probably use a special space to call her own.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
As I was returning to the forum, I reread Emergent's thread title and thought, "You know, if I wasn't so happy to be out of nursing, I probably wouldn't have been so quick to be so giving up my art room.
If I was still working, I believe I would have a difficult time in doing so. Working as a nurse is like that, and it's one of the many reasons I chose to remain childless.
I doff my proverbial hat to those of you who can be good parents, and good nurses, and deal with all that life throws at you.
I'm still rocking the scrubs at 63 but as an APRN, its a lot less physically stressful. However, the workload is heavy and 50-60 hours per week are kinda becoming the norm.
Davey Do
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I am so sorry for your trials, but it is so interesting that you say this LibraNurse. I sense the majority of allnurses members are quality nurses, seeing how they're on a nursing website. But there's a lot of us who wonder if we would have been better off haven chosen a less stressful career.
Personally, for me, I believe that I needed nursing to make me humble... well, have more humility than I would have had otherwise. I'm an arrogant a-hole anyway, but I'd be much worse had working as a nurse hadn't taken me down a peg or two and allowed me to experience some relatively profound revelations.
On that "back in time" statement: I've always been attracted to the concept of time travel, but have recently reread the novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, and have studied the graphic novel for its illustrative art.
I'm playing with the idea of time travel in my cartoon art and have posted some of it in the Humor Forum. I'm considering having my cartoon character go back in time and decide NOT to become a nurse.
We'll see where that takes me.