Still running in place...

[kickme]

In the summer I posted about my plan to leave my visiting nursing job and pursue my foot care business full time. The foot care plan has unfortunately not panned out and I have been unable to leave my job. I am at the point where I just want out of the profession completely, but am having difficulty finding other employment, and believe me I am not fussy! I think my nursing credentials/experience is actually hindering me - why would an experienced nurse want to work retail/customer service, etc? I really think I would have better luck leaving it off my resume altogether.

I have made a couple of changes. An email was sent out a couple of months ago that if we were assigned a client for which we did not have the skills to provide their care it was our responsibility to find another nurse working that day who would be able to do a joint visit and "train" us in the skill. So, for example, I have no IV skills, and am assigned an IV client. I have to put out a blanket email begging my already overscheduled colleagues to meet me at my client's home at a specific time and teach me a complex skill in under 30 minutes. Unbelievable. Unreasonable. Unsafe. Disrespectful to clients and nurses. All to save the managers the duty of actually matching skilled visits to appropriate nurses - in other words, from doing their jobs. They also put out a list of administrative-type duties they would like the nurses to complete ON THEIR DAYS OFF, without pay, "because we are a team"!

So, at that time an email went out that an RPN was required three days a week for a shift care client. I took it to save my sanity and keep the pay coming. It's working for now but I will only keep it until I find another job...ANY other job. I am sad that it has come to this, but it is what it is. Our company is slowly circling the bowl and I can't see them being in business a year from now. Maybe that is a good thing.