Need advice about giving a notice.
So I’ve been an LPN 11 years. All of those 11 years have been in LTC with the exception of about a 6 month stent in an ER, which I still stayed PRN at a SNF. Recently the residents have been getting worse and worse. These are no longer regular LTC residents. These residents now have intense psych issues and are a lot more complexly ill than in the past. Yet, the nurse patient ratio hasn’t changed, although the acuity has. A few weeks ago I had an admission come in from the hospital literally covered in coffee ground emesis. He was spitting those coffee ground emesis at me and other staff members during his admission assessment. Immediately contacted the MD. I obviously was expecting an order to send him back out to the hospital, instead was told to give him zofran. It took about two hours of this before they finally let me send him out. It gets better though, then last week all on the same day I had a resident with a blood sugar over 500, a resident (tube feeder) throwing up everywhere, an admission, and not one but TWO falls with head injuries obviously requiring me to do Neuros all going on at the SAME time. Someone was nice enough to help with most of the paperwork for the admission, but I still had to actually go assess them. Everything else was all on me. This was all while I still had 30 residents to medicate and take care of. Then my DON still was complaining about “I need to know where my CNAs are and make sure they’re documenting.” Lady… I barely know where I’m at, at this point. Long story short the next day I got two phone calls about jobs the very next day, both of which I told I could start immediately. Both jobs had me send references and other things and are supposed to be contacting me next week for interviews. So the question is if I get these jobs, or any other jobs would I be wrong for not giving a notice at this point? I really feel like I need to get out of here immediately. Also, current job will not accept a two week notice, they want at least a month. I’m honestly scared at this job at this point. I don’t know how any one expects one nurse to do all this. I would feel bad for my residents and coworkers if I just left, but I also am honestly scared at this point.