TOTAL Burnout

[rasberrikiss]

I am Sooooooo Burnt out!!!!!!! I am a 24 year old LPN I have worked at the same nursing home for the 3 years I have been an lpn. I was working on the rehab/medicare floor and it is VERY fast paced. I have been really stessed out lately, and a lot of my co-workers have been too. Most of them are on antidepressant/antianxiety meds. I ma on anti-anxiety meds myself. Management knows we are stressed, but offer no help and claim we don't have it in the budget for extra help, yet we have 3 unit managers who do ABSLUTLY nothing. It seems like everyone is stresse din our buliding, the admissions director got sent out be ems today for a possible heart attack. An activities worker ran out of the building yesterday claiming, I am having a nervous breakdown! I know most nusring jobs are like this, and I am soo ready to quit nursing and never look back. I LOVE working with patients, I actually like a fast paced working environment, bt I can't stand management and their lack of help, I am sick of feeling unappreciated. Any encouraging words for me?!

[Stitchie]

Don't quit. You've given three good years of service to your LTC facility, and hopefully you'll have some vaction time saved up. Use it if you can!

Can you take a vacation and pamper yourself a bit? It may do you some good to destress and spend some time with friends. I suggest this as I am coming out of some seriously stressful times, and a couple of short vacations have helped a great deal. Time spent with friends is always time well spent.

If you can't get away, do you have access to someone to talk to professionally? That, too, helped when I was brand new in the ER and feeling very overwhelmed. I had a nurse practitioner who really held me together during some of the very ugly adjustment periods I experienced as a new nurse in the ED.

And there's always this board to vent to. There's always changing jobs, too, if you're so inclined.

[veronica butterfly, ADN, RN]

I know most nusring jobs are like this, and I am soo ready to quit nursing and never look back.

Run run run to a more decent caring place!!! Use your skills in a place that cares. No, not all places are like this. My first job was exactly like this, totally horrible and treated its residents about as bad as the staff. YIKES, take care of yourself!!!