What made you quit?

I once quit when I was passed over for a charge nurse post I had basically been assured of, only to see the post given to a part timer in a money saving drive. Meanwhile the staff nurses were expected to complete the charge nurse responsibilites the part timer couldn't honour when she wasn't there.

 Almost straight away I got a charge nurse post elsewhere just a spit  away from where I was living, compared to the hour each way subway journey I had been doing accross London. So, every cloud.

A useless, jealous, spineless, humpty-dumpty twin, yes-‘wo'man of a manager that I couldn't stomach a minute longer. Didn't look back and couldn't be happier!?

I left a job I expected I would retire at partly because I was passed over for a promotion I fully expected to get. Mostly because I found out shortly after this that despite having 25 years of employment there a brand new grad was making literally $0.25/ hour less than I was.  I went to management, but a significant raise was not forthcoming so I started looking for another job. Got multiple offers and chose the dialysis clinic job, mostly because the hours were great and the pay I was able to negotiate was much better than where I had been.  My previous employer was not willing to match the offer I had so out the door I went.

Don't regret it for a second. Within 3 years of starting my new job, I was promoted to management and am making a lot more money than I ever would have seen with my old employer.  Plus I genuinely like the job more which sure doesn't hurt.

It was mostly death by a thousand cuts: routinely staffed with float nurses not qualified to take complex pts, leaving experienced staff to take all the very sick, complicated patients and do all the orientations; constant churn of census-14 out, 14 in every day, and always at shift change; being yelled at by ICU, PACU, and ED about not having beds available; hospitalists managing cardiac patients and being rudely dismissive of experienced cardiac nurses; floating off both aides to be sitters; but the final straw was moving cardiac patients to med tele so cardiac nurses could manage ETOH w/d with CIWA orders that were grossly under-dosed. 

Ended my hospital career on this note:

It was early during Covid and I was working per diem. Due to emergency changes there were not as many hours available for per diems as usual and quite a few of my coworkers (regular staff and per diems) were begging for hours and worried about paying bills. So I decided not to clamor for hours as we usually do and was also not asked to pick up any as they were already being fought over and snapped up the instant available. Several weeks into this I got a group text from our manager to all of the per diems suddenly proclaiming that we needed to (something along the lines of ) "step up and honor our commitments." ?

BYE.

I finished grad school and moved into provider role.

Part of me has the urge to ask if there is more to the story. Another part of me thinks that this story may just be exactly what it says at face value. I have been astonished by the wild things I have seen people do in the clinical setting. It sounds more like some kind of middle school bullying incident than something you would see from a legitimate adult registered nurse. 

JKL33 said:

Ended my hospital career on this note:

It was early during Covid and I was working per diem. Due to emergency changes there were not as many hours available for per diems as usual and quite a few of my coworkers (regular staff and per diems) were begging for hours and worried about paying bills. So I decided not to clamor for hours as we usually do and was also not asked to pick up any as they were already being fought over and snapped up the instant available. Several weeks into this I got a group text from our manager to all of the per diems suddenly proclaiming that we needed to (something along the lines of ) "step up and honor our commitments." ?

BYE.

I finished grad school and moved into provider role.

What??????

You are per diem. By definition, you do not have the commitment of a core staff nurse, and the hospital does not have the commitment to you to maintain your hours or give you benefits. 

The fact that there is no such committments is why per diem roles exist. 

What is this person talking about? It sounds like the manager was trying to convince/guilt you per diem folks into being the solution to a problem that is not your responsibility. That's a hard no from me, dawg. ??

That's crazy! I quit after a pt ripped a 2x4 off a door and was swinging it at staff. Police refused to arrest him because he didn't hit anyone. I guess we shouldn't have been jumping out of the way. The officer in charge then asked, "Don't you guys sign up for this? We aren't your security." I guess if a person is swinging a weapon at a cop then they shouldn't get arrested either since they "signed up for it." I'm away from pt care now.