to hand in my notice?

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I work for the nhs as a community mental health nurse.
I have worked in the community for a few months after years on a ward. I want to leave nursing altogether due to stress/anxiety and that nursing is no longer what I want to do, it's all politics, targets, paperwork, chairing meetings etc.I have felt this way for a long time and feel that now is the time to quit and find something else that doesn't make me feel sick and full of dread at the thought of going to work.

I am applying for other non nursing jobs but want to leave even though I don't as yet have a job to go to.

I am scared of handing in my notice as I have known some of my colleagues for years and feel that I will be disappointing my line managers and that they will try to talk me out of it.

Am I unreasonable to quit after a few months in a new role? I feel like I'm doing something wrong even though I'm not!!

You need to do what's best for you not them! Of course you can leave if that's what you want to do

the only question is your financial situation, can you afford not to work for some months until you get something else?

It's just a job, your colleagues and manager don't really matter on that aspect. For all you know, they might be looking somewhere else, have a change of circumstances and hand their own notice tomorrow. It's nothing personal.

I think once you feel this way it’s hard to get the love back to do nursing. I work in same role. I’ve been close to burnout in some of my previous roles particularly forensics and pd. the job with overtime pays for me to live. I negotiated a 4 day week flexible working- that helps. If I could do 3 days even better. I’m counting down to retirement in 17 yrs!!!

Thanks for the replies, I can manage financially for a while but the jobs I am looking at involve a pay cut so will have to adapt to this.

I am going to hand my notice in next week. Nervous, scared and excited!