Can’t keep going any longer. Handing in notice.

[Tethersend01]

After 3 month of trying to juggle WFH as a specialist Nurse, with caring for two kids neither of who is ‘easy’ and my husband being at work 50+ hours per week, I have finally reached my breaking point. Can’t do anything well enough and my mental health is now suffering badly.
Kids not getting any semblance of ‘homeschooling’ and with no prospect of a return to school anytime soon I am done in.
The NHS will have one less experienced nurse in one of most challenging and short staffed specialities but I feel its leave or have a breakdown myself. Im sure I’m not the only one.

@Anoisagusaris
I’m a community cardiac specialist nurse. We were told to discharge as many pts as possible, were upskilling in areas such as EOL/TEP/syringe driver management/cannulation etc. Our office is tiny and we started WFH. Things were very slow for several weeks initially but we were expecting to be redeployed imminently.
However our area (Cornwall) was not as hard hit as expected.
Our referrals in the last 6 weeks have gone through the roof - pts are much sicker through not accessing services early due to focus on CV. We do phone and video assessments and follow ups with as little pt contact as possible and we still
Cannot go back in to our tiny office but are planning a rota system soon.
Add to that a third of the team off with stress/anxiety.
I count myself lucky that my kids are older (13/18/18) but I am on my own and they are still needing support. I REALLY feel for you all with younger children and the hell you are juggling at times.
I feel grateful to be able to continue to do a job I love though albeit with ever changing parameters ( trying to move from 9-5 m-f to 8-8 seven days a week with a team of 5 nurses and an exercise physiologist was always going to be challenging!) and my teams communication and liaison with secondary care and GPs is way better.
Love to you all , may we emerge battered but intact on the other side ❤️❤️

Sympathies to everyone having an impossible time with this. I think the full realisation of no school Until Sept and uncertainty about that being part time if it even happens is making it much harder. I second PP suggestion of signing yourself off sick with stress, and at the same time also pleading with the school to see if they can help. Good luck