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So I am a relatively new LPN. I have had no trouble finding work. However, it feels like there isn't much securoty in healthcare. I am working in homecare on a case I like, but that won't last forever.
I've been wondering if things are getting bad for nurses. The whole 1:20 or 1:30 or 1:40 ratio for nurse to patient in LTCs seems insane. I really don't see how the field isn't buckling already. And it's really hard to find new grads employed anywhere for long. What will happen when no one is left once nurses start retiring? And in the nursing vhomes I've been to a lot of the older nurses are bitter and miserable and don't want to help out newer nurses. The environment seems cut throat.
There's slightly more opportunities for the RN but I have a few RN friends and things seem to be equally bad for them. Then there's the issue of taxes. I as a single female get taxed to high heaven and will be leaving in 2019 partly due to it.
It almost makes me scared to be a nurse in this city. I wonder if the grass is greener on the other side.
So I am a relatively new LPN. I have had no trouble finding work. However, it feels like there isn't much securoty in healthcare. I am working in homecare on a case I like, but that won't last forever.
I've been wondering if things are getting bad for nurses. The whole 1:20 or 1:30 or 1:40 ratio for nurse to patient in LTCs seems insane. I really don't see how the field isn't buckling already. And it's really hard to find new grads employed anywhere for long. What will happen when no one is left once nurses start retiring? And in the nursing vhomes I've been to a lot of the older nurses are bitter and miserable and don't want to help out newer nurses. The environment seems cut throat.
There's slightly more opportunities for the RN but I have a few RN friends and things seem to be equally bad for them. Then there's the issue of taxes. I as a single female get taxed to high heaven and will be leaving in 2019 partly due to it.
It almost makes me scared to be a nurse in this city. I wonder if the grass is greener on the other side.
I think things in general are getting worse for medical practitioners. Overworked, underpaid, and constantly having to toe the line when it comes to new regulations. When my mom was dying in the hospital, it seemed like the nurses truly did more work than doctors though. And when the doctors came around, they didn't even speak to her... they toted around their wheeling computer "bays" and spoke amongst each other referring to her, but not speaking to her. It was so dehumanizing and awful and left me deeply mistrustful of doctors.
Oh, it was disgusting. I wanted to spit in their faces (which I would NEVER do); just the lack of respect towards her on a human level was staggering. Here she was, lying in bed and dying of cancer, COPD, a heart attack and later pneumonia and they're just all huddled around her, pointing to their screen and talking ABOUT her. It was honestly such a display of everything wrong with the medical community.
The nurses on the other hand were all wonderful. Caring, empathetic, hard working. Just amazing. Nothing but respect to nurses.
Nurses aren't always perfect either. Behind the scenes I've seen a lot of miserable and overworked nurses. And the environment isn't welcoming to new grads. If I had better options I'd be on my way out.
The nursing home where I was let go is currently under investigation because 5 people died on the same floor. Recent too. It's a good thing I was outta there months earlier. And the nursing home is in a wealthy area too.
Nurses aren't always perfect either. Behind the scenes I've seen a lot of miserable and overworked nurses. And the environment isn't welcoming to new grads. If I had better options I'd be on my way out.
The nursing home where I was let go is currently under investigation because 5 people died on the same floor. Recent too. It's a good thing I was outta there months earlier. And the nursing home is in a wealthy area too.
I spend a lot of time at a nursing home. One is many seem to actually care about the residents. I understand they are over worked and under paid but it breaks my heart. Nursing homes are were the residents come to live their last years and are treated like a number and a chore. I wish they mandated more workers per residents so they could be treated like individuals and enjoy their final years as much as possible. The lucky residents have family and friends who visit them and are a voice for them. The ones without anyone are **** out of luck.
So I am a relatively new LPN. I have had no trouble finding work. However, it feels like there isn't much securoty in healthcare. I am working in homecare on a case I like, but that won't last forever.
I've been wondering if things are getting bad for nurses. The whole 1:20 or 1:30 or 1:40 ratio for nurse to patient in LTCs seems insane. I really don't see how the field isn't buckling already. And it's really hard to find new grads employed anywhere for long. What will happen when no one is left once nurses start retiring? And in the nursing vhomes I've been to a lot of the older nurses are bitter and miserable and don't want to help out newer nurses. The environment seems cut throat.
There's slightly more opportunities for the RN but I have a few RN friends and things seem to be equally bad for them. Then there's the issue of taxes. I as a single female get taxed to high heaven and will be leaving in 2019 partly due to it.
It almost makes me scared to be a nurse in this city. I wonder if the grass is greener on the other side.
Newsflash, there are going to be issues with any job and any field anywhere. If you really want to be in nursing make it work for you.
So I am a relatively new LPN. I have had no trouble finding work. However, it feels like there isn't much securoty in healthcare. I am working in homecare on a case I like, but that won't last forever.
I've been wondering if things are getting bad for nurses. The whole 1:20 or 1:30 or 1:40 ratio for nurse to patient in LTCs seems insane. I really don't see how the field isn't buckling already. And it's really hard to find new grads employed anywhere for long. What will happen when no one is left once nurses start retiring? And in the nursing vhomes I've been to a lot of the older nurses are bitter and miserable and don't want to help out newer nurses. The environment seems cut throat.
There's slightly more opportunities for the RN but I have a few RN friends and things seem to be equally bad for them. Then there's the issue of taxes. I as a single female get taxed to high heaven and will be leaving in 2019 partly due to it.
It almost makes me scared to be a nurse in this city. I wonder if the grass is greener on the other side.
How is that different than any other profession? We all get taxed here and I get "taxed more" as a married female than I did as a single one.
LTCs have always been understaffed. Nursing homes aren't the only places with bitter and miserable workers that don't want to help out---that is everywhere.
RNs here make more money than most four year degree graduates in health care and most of the ones I know have more than one job and making six figures.
Some states have mandatory staffing ratios - has there been any progress on that in NY? 1199 is a big union, but their power seems to be limited. I spent my whole life hearing about how powerful unions are and how union employees write their own tickets, but that doesn't seem to be the case with that union. The hospitals cut more and more staff and patient care is definitely affected.
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