Please help me before I leave the profession entirely! 😩 I do not want those 4 years to be in vain. Extra certifications are ok, but I don’t want to become a CRNA or NP or anything of the sort. What other avenues are there to break out of this?
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The pay in nursing is just not worth the level of stress, liability, and abuse by the system (*ahem*… insane patient loads, constant “accidental” understaffing, sending PCTs home until they’re always understaffed too, etc.). For those of you that work at good hospitals, I love that for you, but I work where there are no unions and there are far, far more nurses than job positions (and I can’t move or travel nurse). And, in the lower stress positions you often don’t get paid as much as the already low salary nurses make for their expertise and effort.
I made more as a waitress with a hell of a lot less stress and butt wiping, to be real with you. but I love nursing and don’t want to leave it… it’s a shame