Tired of being a nurse..

[Najjah]

Hi. I need some advice.
I’m a nurse for 13 years. That’s the only job I know and is still doing. But I don’t want to do it anymore. I’m burn out and it’s not good for my mental health anymore. It stresses me really bad..
I want to do something else but not sure what. Please any advice?

thanks so much…

Can you move into something like clinical sales, education, occupational health? So still nursing but not necessarily patient facing?

Different type of nursing?

Outpatients?
Patient safety?
Occupational health?

What sort of Nursing do you do, are you NHS or private sector?

I moved from nursing into FE college lecturing. Different type of stress but summer and Christmas holidays off!

I managed a similar amount of time as you OP. I didn't leave when I should have and really, really regret that.

I carried on, and kept going, and ultimately had a bit of a breakdown. I was vilified for speaking out/whistle blowing and my life made hell.

I made the decision to let my registration lapse, but I didn't really have a choice, not if I wanted to live. If you're feeling it OP, leave now while it's not too late

I left after 30 years as mental health was so bad from Nursing too long ! I have now let my registration lapse. I do a caseworker job involving housing advice, safeguarding, benefits advice work, disability forms etc.

Have you considered school nursing or health visiting?

Moving into teaching or marking for health and social care courses in further education has been popular with my ex-colleagues.

If you're senior, then lots of people move into commissioning roles.

12 years into it I broke down in front of my manager, eeekkk! 🫣
Then i went off sick with anxiety for 3 months…
I’m still doing nursing but only on a bank but still booking shifts quite regularly bcoz I’ve got bills to pay…But I really want to move to something different and probably book bank shifts every now and again just to keep my pin..
Just not sure where to go or what to do really…

Dont go into teaching in schools. I tried it and hated it such a weird culture in comparisons with the NHS.
what area are you currently working in? How about a change of area I was a sister on a ridiculously busy very acute/HDU ward I did little nursing (until the shit hit the fan) as I spent large parts of my day trying to squeeze 32 patients into 20 beds and dealing with staffing crap.
My physical and mental health eventually collapsed and I moved to an area where I actually looked after patients I feel so much better.
I know everyone says move to the private sector or work for a drug company but I personally believe in the NHS and what it stands for and wouldn’t want to work anywhere else.
From experience colleague who moved to health visiting hated it in a England it’s all child protection stuff and school nursing is often a lot of paperwork and as you are responsible for so many children you get little time to actually look after anyone property and again masses of CP stuff.