A lot of folk at my place of employment are actively seeking other employment after a couple of years of belt tightening and increasingly unsafe and joyless working conditions that drain us dry. On top of that is the general feeling of disrespect handed down by upper management.
What is it about healthcare that eats its workforce alive. Our work has become like the famous I Love Lucy episode, where Lucy and Ethel trying to keep up with that assembly line that keeps going faster and faster. Only, we are dealing with human lives, not candy!
They cannot keep speeding up the assembly line and expect us not to fail!
I'm pretty content at all my places of employment. That being said, I always keep an eye out because I never know when the perfect opportunity, either at another facility or internally, might wander by.
I've been offered some attractive full time faculty spots, but I haven't worked an 8-5 day job in a very long time, and that was volunteering overseas for a period of months (not in hospital). I like nights, and have been around long enough to have seniority and a large amount of PTO accumulating. Also part time pays me well enough.
But staffing and pt loads are just getting worse all the time, and unsafe things have been happening more often. For the first time I actually considered resigning and totally changing my (comfortable!) life last week.
What regulatory burdens are you talking about? I don't know where you live, but some regulations help nurses out. I live in California and I have to say I am very thankful for staffing ratios. We have a few RNs from out of state and they say it is so much worse elsewhere.
Why? Crappy staffing, budget cutting and bad patient populations, Unfortunately all 3 of these categories are subpar at my job. Nurses are leaving droves and the one sticking around lament on how bad it has gotten.
I am eyeing a nursing job in a better more upscale area about 40 min away but with traffic I would probably have to move....
Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN
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I'm pretty content at all my places of employment. That being said, I always keep an eye out because I never know when the perfect opportunity, either at another facility or internally, might wander by.