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08-25-2008, 03:58 AM
I was wondering if their is a chat line for troubled nurses? You know a place where you can go and chat with your peers after a bad day or bad week. Kind of a support group that is not all into this "I love nursing BS"but real nurse who are out here in the thick of it,working short staffed and searching for folks to understand. After working 2 days i can't talk with my wife or friends about these issues. they don't have a clue of what it's like to be a nurse. The nurse suicide rate is 4x that of the average person. We need to talk and show the same care and compassion to each other that we try to give our patients. This eating the young and kicking the old aside has got to stop. we have way to many good nurse like myself looking for any oppurtunity to get out. I have not anything in he last 6mths that gives me any joy. I am sure i am not alone and perhaps there is some chat lines already out there and I just have not found them. On my days off I just think about how many days until I have to go back to work. This is not the profession that I loved so many years ago. I am glad that I am blessed without an addictive personality. I can easily see how some of my old friends have ended up strung out. Some of the younger nurses may say I am just venting and leave it if you can't take it" But if your a young nurse and you plan to stay in this field then you will become an old nurse. Just a cold hard fact! Get out in time to have another career. if you wait too long then your stuck. You get use to the lifestyle and the $$$ and it's hard to just pullout. Tonight the thought of giving up the home and everything and working a Wal-Mart sounds good but then I could only be a greeter. But then again we as nurses have that "Smile like it's all good" down to a science. Well I am feeling a bit selfish because just wrting this stuff has made me fee less stress like perhaps there is a person out there reading and not thinking I am not a jerk. Okay if any of this offends I am sorry and for future prevention of wasting your time don't read my stuff. Because I can't make Sh___ smell like a rose...