Staff Nursing is Exhausting

[Wake88, BSN, RN]

Good evening all. This is a vent and a plan to exit the floor. If you're a nurse and you understand what it's like, awesome. 

 

LPN 2 years, RN going on 3. BSN obtained 6 months ago. Planning to go to PMHNP school this Fall.

 

OK so here's the rant:

 

I am so sick and tired of being treated like crap on the floor. I work at two hospitals doing LTACH/stepdown nursing. Management never supports us or takes our side, even when the pt/their family is crazy. Two other coworkers are planning to leave because management basically doesn't GAF about us, and everything is always our fault. I'm so tempted to get into travel nursing of some sort, because then at least the pay would be better, and weekly. They've been cancelling us FT staff 1-2 shifts a week because they overhired on agency nurses and management makes sure they get their shifts first. As a FT staff nurse I've been cancelled like 5 times in 3 weeks. 

 

My goal is to get off the floor ASAP. Hopefully the PMHNP program will be done in 2-3 years, and that will be the end of that. I figure working as a PMHNP will be less physically draining and more intellectually draining (or stimulating) and I'm OK with that.

 

Just trying to bite my tongue so I don't get fired. 

[paraRN, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

I’m ready to come with you. I posted a similar thread tonight.

I don’t want to wait 2 years for my FNP to leave though. 

My biggest issue is that I’m making $80/hr as a travel nurse and going back to staff at $40 isn’t worth it. It’s barely worth all the *** at 80.

If there was anything else I could do I’d do it. I just can’t afford to quit.

[HiddenAngels]

We hear you, loud and clear. Nursing has changed so much so fast.  It's not just you, Everyone is complaining.  Be careful with travel nursing nowadays because they seem to get dumped on with all of the completes complex and high risk for incidence patients lumped all together.

I think they're canceling your shift because they can't cancel travelers, if they do cancel travelers shift, they still get paid for that shift regardless.

Still the pay is more, I hear you, but conversely is it worth your license to be placed in sometimes unsafe conditions and floated to floors you have no experience, most travelers nowadays must float (it's written in the contracts).   And the assignments are made in such a way that travelers give handoff report to travelers because the assignments for travelers are so heavy, the staff nurse do not want to accept those patients.

And this is not the case for all traveler assignments by no means... Not trying to deter you just making sure you're informed...

Good luck

 

[Rogue1]

But how many pizzas did you get?? 

Joking aside, it amazes me how management STILL ignores adequate retention incentives. 

[2BS Nurse, BSN]

Well, factory workers are making as much as RNs these days. You could do that while attending NP school.