I’ve been qualified for 11 years, nursing is all I’ve known for 16 years with college, university and my jobs, but I’m done.
I’ve been signed off work for a few weeks with stress and I just don’t want to ever go back.
Has anyone left the profession and what do you do? I’ve considered other avenues within nursing but I’m not sure I even want to be a nurse in any capacity any longer.
I’m just sick of the constant target driven tasks, there’s no individual patient care, there’s no positivity. It’s a constant barrage of “you’ve (the team as a whole) done this wrong, we should be doing this, we could be doing this, how do we save money, how many more responsibilities can we
pile on down the chain without actually paying anyone, how do we do this quicker but with less resources” type of mentality and I just want out.
I’m a bloody good nurse too, I care for my patients and their families, I put in a shift when I’m on duty trying to make sure I’m doing what I can but it’s never ever enough, there’s always someone saying we could have done better.
I don’t need someone sidling up to me to gush their praises but once in a blue moon it would be nice to be acknowledged.
I think I need to go but what do you do when your job is all you’ve ever known?!