Top ten signs your job has you burnt out

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

10. You're so tired that you now answer the phone on your nursing unit, "Hell."

9. Your friends give you a jingle to ask how you've been and you immediately scream, "Get off my !#@!%# back!"

8. Your nursing office garbage can IS your "in" box.

7. You wake up to discover that your bed is on fire, but go back to sleep because you just don't care.

6. You have so much on your mind that you've been forgetting to take bathroom breaks.

5. Visions of the upcoming weekend help you make it through Monday.

4. You don't set your alarm anymore because you know your pager will go off before the alarm does.

3. You leave for a party, instinctively pinning on your hospital ID badge.

2. Your Day Timer exploded a week ago.

...and the Number One sign that you are burned out because of work...

1. You fantasize about how relaxing it would be if you were in jail.

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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10. You're so tired that you now answer the phone on your nursing unit, "Hell."

9. Your friends give you a jingle to ask how you've been and you immediately scream, "Get off my !#@!%# back!"

8. Your nursing office garbage can IS your "in" box.

7. You wake up to discover that your bed is on fire, but go back to sleep because you just don't care.

6. You have so much on your mind that you've been forgetting to take bathroom breaks.

5. Visions of the upcoming weekend help you make it through Monday.

4. You don't set your alarm anymore because you know your pager will go off before the alarm does.

3. You leave for a party, instinctively pinning on your hospital ID badge.

2. Your Day Timer exploded a week ago.

...and the Number One sign that you are burned out because of work...

1. You fantasize about how relaxing it would be if you were in jail.

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

WHEN YOUR HUSBAND WAKES YOU UP FOR WORK . TELL HI M IAM GOING TO INSERT CATHER.
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OMG :rotfl: :lol2:
WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS TRYING TO WAKE ME UP FOR WORK AND TOLD HIM IWAS GOING TO GIVE HIM CATHER!
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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

Being burnout is how I reacted today, when my supervisor told me that I HAD to "volunteer" to work overtime this weekend: "I'll let you know AFTER my doctors' appointment Friday afternoon!" :angryfire

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Specializes in Everything but psych!.

You answer the department/office phone with "Whadaya want?" :rolleyes:

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the best reply I have ever hear to a unit phone_

County Morgue, how may I help you?

(dont recommend for units with managers with no sense of humor....)

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Specializes in Med-surg; OB/Well baby; pulmonology; RTS.

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woo hoo~~!!!

that was my hundredth post

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Specializes in ER.

You fishtail on the way to work, and are vaguely disappointed when you DON'T land in the ditch. (A night off is a night off, after all)

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Thanks! I really needed that after my night from hell, or would that be my night in hell? :chuckle

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