tired of the hospital

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I have been a RN for over 2 years. I have only worked in 2 hospitals. My first job I only lasted 6 months doing med-surg and I am currently at another hospital doing tele/pcu I have been at for about a year and half. I am so tired of the hospitals. I am tired of the long 12 hour shifts that are really 13 hours. I feel like it is the same thing over and over. Not enough staff, patients are never happy, administration all about patient satisfaction, and get though discharges out ASAP. I always knew the hospital wasn't for me from the beginning but I wanted to get my experience in. I feel 2 years is good enough. I am pregnant currently and after maternity leave I don't not want to go back. I was thinking home health, rehab, dialysis, wish I could get into a PACU but those are hard to get it in. What do yall think is a good job outside of floor nursing? I did have a prn job with a home health company for about a month. It did not work out because the company was so unorganized and didn't train me properly. I do feel like if I got proper training and a more organized company that I would be happy doing home health.

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

Look into home health, hospice, or physician offices.

the pay is not as good, but quality of life are great

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

MedSurg/Telemetry nurses are generally over worked and under appreciated. It is trully a ghastly specialty. I refused to apply for or even considering working in those fields because they suck so bad. Have you though about changing specialties? Maybe it isn't the hospital you hate so much, but rather the patient population and workload..

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Look into home health, hospice, or physician offices.

the pay is not as good, but quality of life are great

I am not sure about the "great quality of life" in home care or hospice...

Have you ever or recently worked in those fields???

Anyhow - OP :

Perhaps you are tired and exhausted being pregnant.

Once your baby is there you will be busy with adjusting and so on and forth and that is probably not a good time to learn a total new area like dialysis/home care/ hospice.

I know plenty of people who started in home care / hospice / dialysis thinking that it will be an "easy" job with regular work times and so on - only to discover that there is golden ticket and the fast pace/short staffing/ overtime aka being salaried and unable to finish stuff in time/ never get out in time (home care/ hospice) is not really compatible with family life and a new baby.

Instead I would keep the job, perhaps reduce the weekly time or switch to 8 h shifts, or change the work days ...

Once the baby is there you will focus on that much more and work might be less annoying - you might even enjoy just being able to do the job without additional training and get the money. If you get paid ok, have good benefits - consider staying for some while until things with the baby have settled and re-evaluate.

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Also you may want to consider school nursing

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