Being a nurse is too much responsibility. I have been a nurse for 3 years and my mental health is suffering so much that I no longer care anymore about others needs. I am still doing my best to do my job, but I am quitting.
RN here of almost 3 years and I am over it. I've come to the breaking point to go back to school to become a nurse professor. I still love nursing but the disrespect from the government and the higher-ups within the hospital community is definitely not worth it anymore for me. I do hope and pray that the medical industry gets better in the future. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
I have been a nurse for 35 years, I became sick with extremely high blood pressure 260/142 was common. It caused my blood vessels to fail and no blood supply to the skin caused ulcers in arms, and legs, and my whole body swelled up and my hair fell out. The illness came on in just a few days and I literally could not walk and was holding onto walls at work and trying to keep working. When my skin opened and I saw black necrotic open sores I grabbed some ace wraps and wrapped my arms and legs and tried to keep working. I told the supervisor I was ill and I was needing to go to the ER. My blood pressure was 260/152 and the supervisor said that cannot be true. He saw my hair was gone and it was long and thick before this day. My patients told me I needed to get help because they saw me struggling. I had a chair that rolled and was pulling myself along the wall. I tried to do everything correct for my patients and not make errors but I was needing to fill out some checklists on each patient for my shift. It was about 60 questions each patient and I had 56 patients on a rehab unit that night. I failed to answer Y/N on 6 questions because I was in severe pain and so weak. I survived that night shift. They would not allow me to leave to go to the ER for a hypertensive crisis during the shift. I remember trying to compose myself and give a report to the next shift. I left that shift and was holding onto the wall and I got to the exit and there was nothing to hold onto so I crawled to my car. I was exhausted but off the next few days and drove home to sleep. I crawled to my bed literally because my lower legs were so swollen I could not put pressure on them. I pulled myself up into the bed and in some sort of denial thought I would feel better when I woke up. My supervisor texted me when I was sleeping. He said I had incomplete charting and needed to return to the facility to complete it. I slept through most of the texts and I was so sick I did not pay attention to some of the texts. Thought I was dying. My supervisor demanded I come in that day or I would be fired but I was not able to walk or function in any way. That night I went to the hospital ER and was admitted with Hypertension and low Pottasium, plus the swelling and wounds. This was the beginning of my journey of being a patient instead of a nurse and getting an idea of how other nurses functioned on the hospital unit. Let's just say I was dumbfounded and witnessed a lot of differences in the care the nurses tried to provide and my idea of care vs what I experienced was appalling. I found out I had been fired for not finishing my charting the last day I worked and my health insurance was terminated retro to the last day I worked. That was the summer of 2017 and it took Medical providers until 2020 to diagnose the underlying problem which is Primary Aldosteronism an excess of Aldosterone hormone which causes blood pressure to skyrocket. My gosh, I was so sick. I was in and out of hospitals for a few years. I experienced so much of everything that is messed up about the healthcare system from Gaslighting to inaccurate diagnosis, and harmful treatments--prednisone at high doses because my body had really high levels of inflammatory enzymes. I asked for pain medicine and ended up at a sleep study because that was how hard a Doctor tried not to address the pain issue. Tol I had venous insufficiency and I never had swollen legs or ulcers before that time and the day. Last day of work. I saw specialists, one was a dermatologist telling me what to do about healing leg ulcers but bandaids and Vaseline was not appropriate. I developed my own wound care plan drawing off of my experience as a wound care nurse and yes I was able to heal my own wounds and I was called non compliant,a drug seeker, openly spoke about the Medicaid insurance that does not pay providers well and the doctors would shorten my care and try to pass me off to other providers,, was quite depressing to be treated like that after I had been a vibrant, high performing RN for all of those years. I am somewhat better now but have permanent medical problems and cannot work. I would not work as an RN after experiencing this as it was disappointing and sad.
I reached the end in 2021. I retired. I miss the adventure and the goal to support others. But. But. Emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually-God guided me. To rest. After a 45 year tour. I Will Always sincerely Dearly Miss Nursing…maybe that’s why I put my Licensure on the inactive list. I couldn’t surrender it yet. It’s 2023 now. I moved from KCMO to live with my daughter in Port Charlotte Florida. My level of education and knowledge exceeds minimum standards here…but I’m not decided. God Bless everyone…💐🙏
Government run Healthcare is NOT an answer that anyone will like if this idea takes over. The government will simply do what they do best...bring EVERYONES standard of care to the lowest possible level.
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Being a nurse is too much responsibility. I have been a nurse for 3 years and my mental health is suffering so much that I no longer care anymore about others needs. I am still doing my best to do my job, but I am quitting.
RN here of almost 3 years and I am over it. I've come to the breaking point to go back to school to become a nurse professor. I still love nursing but the disrespect from the government and the higher-ups within the hospital community is definitely not worth it anymore for me. I do hope and pray that the medical industry gets better in the future. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
I so agree, STAFFING is the reason I will retire early. I am more than tired and burnt out.
I have been a nurse for 35 years, I became sick with extremely high blood pressure 260/142 was common. It caused my blood vessels to fail and no blood supply to the skin caused ulcers in arms, and legs, and my whole body swelled up and my hair fell out. The illness came on in just a few days and I literally could not walk and was holding onto walls at work and trying to keep working. When my skin opened and I saw black necrotic open sores I grabbed some ace wraps and wrapped my arms and legs and tried to keep working. I told the supervisor I was ill and I was needing to go to the ER. My blood pressure was 260/152 and the supervisor said that cannot be true. He saw my hair was gone and it was long and thick before this day. My patients told me I needed to get help because they saw me struggling. I had a chair that rolled and was pulling myself along the wall. I tried to do everything correct for my patients and not make errors but I was needing to fill out some checklists on each patient for my shift. It was about 60 questions each patient and I had 56 patients on a rehab unit that night. I failed to answer Y/N on 6 questions because I was in severe pain and so weak. I survived that night shift. They would not allow me to leave to go to the ER for a hypertensive crisis during the shift.
I remember trying to compose myself and give a report to the next shift. I left that shift and was holding onto the wall and I got to the exit and there was nothing to hold onto so I crawled to my car. I was exhausted but off the next few days and drove home to sleep. I crawled to my bed literally because my lower legs were so swollen I could not put pressure on them. I pulled myself up into the bed and in some sort of denial thought I would feel better when I woke up.
My supervisor texted me when I was sleeping. He said I had incomplete charting and needed to return to the facility to complete it. I slept through most of the texts and I was so sick I did not pay attention to some of the texts. Thought I was dying. My supervisor demanded I come in that day or I would be fired but I was not able to walk or function in any way. That night I went to the hospital ER and was admitted with Hypertension and low Pottasium, plus the swelling and wounds. This was the beginning of my journey of being a patient instead of a nurse and getting an idea of how other nurses functioned on the hospital unit. Let's just say I was dumbfounded and witnessed a lot of differences in the care the nurses tried to provide and my idea of care vs what I experienced was appalling.
I found out I had been fired for not finishing my charting the last day I worked and my health insurance was terminated retro to the last day I worked. That was the summer of 2017 and it took Medical providers until 2020 to diagnose the underlying problem which is Primary Aldosteronism an excess of Aldosterone hormone which causes blood pressure to skyrocket. My gosh, I was so sick. I was in and out of hospitals for a few years. I experienced so much of everything that is messed up about the healthcare system from Gaslighting to inaccurate diagnosis, and harmful treatments--prednisone at high doses because my body had really high levels of inflammatory enzymes. I asked for pain medicine and ended up at a sleep study because that was how hard a Doctor tried not to address the pain issue. Tol I had venous insufficiency and I never had swollen legs or ulcers before that time and the day. Last day of work. I saw specialists, one was a dermatologist telling me what to do about healing leg ulcers but bandaids and Vaseline was not appropriate. I developed my own wound care plan drawing off of my experience as a wound care nurse and yes I was able to heal my own wounds and I was called non compliant,a drug seeker, openly spoke about the Medicaid insurance that does not pay providers well and the doctors would shorten my care and try to pass me off to other providers,, was quite depressing to be treated like that after I had been a vibrant, high performing RN for all of those years.
I am somewhat better now but have permanent medical problems and cannot work. I would not work as an RN after experiencing this as it was disappointing and sad.
Nurses are the backbone of the medical community.
Nursing homes are having the same problem with CNA’s. They need more help.
I'm a retired soldier, disabled veteran, and a volunteer at my local VA Hospital.
I reached the end in 2021. I retired. I miss the adventure and the goal to support others. But. But. Emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually-God guided me. To rest. After a 45 year tour. I Will Always sincerely Dearly Miss Nursing…maybe that’s why I put my Licensure on the inactive list. I couldn’t surrender it yet. It’s 2023 now. I moved from KCMO to live with my daughter in Port Charlotte Florida. My level of education and knowledge exceeds minimum standards here…but I’m not decided. God Bless everyone…💐🙏
I retired back in 2017 and soooo glad I did!!!
This problem has been going on since COVID. The epidemic just brought the issue to the forefront.
I'm out for good. I was able to retire at 55. I wanted to go to 59.5. Being an RN these days is not worth it. The Gov. wants the system to be the VA.
If you're going to do nursing, integrative/holisitc medicine is the only way to go.
Plenty from the Philippines!!!
Philippines have shortage of nurses now too
The poison dart mandate did me in! Thanks Biden.
Nursing has become just a job for me and can't wait for my days off and literally run to my car when i clock out for the day.
Government run Healthcare is NOT an answer that anyone will like if this idea takes over. The government will simply do what they do best...bring EVERYONES standard of care to the lowest possible level.
TRUMP MAGA