I feel so sad this is my decision now. I worked all the pandemic on front line wards. I can't give the care I want to give. I spend my entire day chasing my tail and I'm knackered. I feel awful for the parents who can't leave the rooms, they can't swap over either because of the Covid rules. I work on a Childrens cancer ward and the Covid rules are so strict which is understandable but also horrible. My ward have no boundaries either; constantly texting and ringing on your days off asking if you did xyz for patient A, but if they just looked on the system it's all there. Because we've recently switched to paperless some staff members can't work it properly so I regularly get 2/3 phone calls on my days off.
I'm just done. I'm fit for absolutely nothing after 3 long days, tbh after 2 long days I'm a mess. I just can't give the care I want. I had to attend resilience training last week because the ward is so short staffed it was meant to help us cope with the lack of staff but it just affirmed to me im done.
I tried to book my annual leave last week too as I've not managed to take much but because of the ward needs I can't take it now and we can only take 1 week into the next year with us so I'm losing 2 weeks annual leave 