What are the things that make you want to leave nursing?

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What are the things that make you want to leave nursing?

What are the things that seriously make you want to leave nursing and healthcare? To start a career doing something different. 

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Leadership who doesn't understand the purpose of a role. I love what I do; I don't love the leadership (which recently changed) and if I were to win that gigantic MegaMillions jackpot, I wouldn't even bother with cleaning out my office; just call in and say I quit. (It's been a rough week)

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Apathetic power drunk pencil-necked bureaucrats who ignore codes of conduct, P&P, JC recommendations, state laws & statutes, put personalities before principles, then terminate me on trumped on charges.

It all came out in the wash anyway, and I'm a happier person for it.

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Aww, Rose_Queen, {{{hugs}}}.

I have to agree, leadership is what drove me out of acute care. Too much pushing of beans, too little treating humans like humans. Patients and staff.

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Specializes in Psych/Ortho-neuro rehab.

Abused on all sides: from hospital administration, patients, unions, families, and sometimes even nurses. Mandatory overtime. Skeleton staff. Incompetent, lazy staff who won't/can't do their job,  and then you are left with the problem of cleanup. Being sent to other units outside of your specialty area. Being unappreciated for all-out effort. I could go on.

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Specializes in IMCU.

Backstabbing. There is nothing worse than when someone gets a resentment with you at work and instead of speaking with you like a grown up, the go to a manager. My former manager used to send people out of her office until you'd spoken to that individual first. Our new manager lets people sit a moan about others. It has created a really bad work environment. 

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I've struggled with anxiety for a long time and just when I felt like it was under control (when I was comfortable in my last work environment) I switched to working in the OR. I feel like it's eroding my mental health because I'm stressed all of the time. While I realize that being new in this role means things can only get better with time, part of me just wants to go live in a tiny house on a mountain and do farm work or something. Then again, if it weren't challenging, I know it wouldn't be as fulfilling. Would be great if I could always pick the cases I work in and the teams I work with...but that's not gonna happen.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

1)bad attitudes

2)big egos

3)poor wages

4)abhorrent colleagues who are in the field to serve themselves rather than the patients.

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Everything 

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Specializes in Med Surg.

Politics. Being blocked from moving up or changing to a role you have a passion for just because of staffing and rules. 

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Red Shirt 6 said:
What are the things that make you want to leave nursing?

What are the things that seriously make you want to leave nursing and healthcare? To start a career doing something different. 

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1. Being overworked doing the job of 3-4 people.

2. Being abused

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Being so short staffed nobody can take vacation and getting an email saying I'm over my vacation accrual allowance so I'm being forced to forfeit 52 hours of it. Yep, not getting it paid out, not getting the time off. Poof! Gone! 
 

Needed to add that this news was in the last paragraph of the "congratulations on your 15 years of dedicated service to us" email. ?

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