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Floating

I'm still floating on cloud nine. I'm so glad that I only have six more days left to suffer on the floor. They will go by quickly and I'll be going to work in an entirely new setting. I really don't know what to expect, but any change right now is one I'm willing to face.

Please let this change be a good one. I've suffered at this job for almost 2 years. I've done my job to the best of my ability and I can quite honestly say, although I learned a lot, I wish I would have gone directly into another setting. Med surg is not a job for every nurse. You will sweat, you will cry, you will wish you had never become a nurse. Two years in that hell is quite enough. I say good bye with a smile on my face. I hope I never have to return.

PLEASE GOD. Please let me never return to that hell on earth!

I GOT THE JOB!!

Little over and hour ago I got the call that I got the job at the local health department!! OMG. I am so happy. No more 12s, no more weekends, no more bedside nursing. I am just ecstatic. This job may have it's ups and downs like any job, but at least I don't have to deal with this crap anymore. Getting away from the madness is literally a breath of fresh air for me. I didn't cry. I did get teary-eyed once. I just don't think it has hit me quite yet. I only have to work 2 more weeks and then I'm done with this hospital. DONE. No more going in there and literally loathing the fact that I'm working for a place I hate. I didn't always hate my job, but the changes that have occurred are just too much for me to care for. I'm fine with change. I really am. I'm changing jobs right? But I can't handle change that doesn't help the people, but hurts the moral and the atmosphere instead.

Heading to work right now. Going to write up my notice and turn it in tomorrow morning!!

Woot!

Me

Pre employment requirements

I completed pre employment requirements Monday. That included the background check and drug screen. This, according to the sheet I received from the center, is a good sign that I've been hired. I shouldn't have anything show up in my record because, honestly, I haven't done anything horrible. No traffic violations, no arrests, no...anything. I don't do drugs so nothing like that should show up. I SHOULD, god willing, have this job in the bag. I'm so ready to give my two weeks notice and leave this hospital.

I'm tired . I really am. Staffing is only getting worse. I didn't know that going to a private 24 bed unit would mean we'd work short nurses and techs. I also didn't think it would mean people would have to be sent home each day and be forced to use their PTO just to get the hours they need to make a living.

Some people say the bad times come and then they go. Too bad I'm not willing to wait until this cycle of 'bad' is over. I know a bad situation when I see it. I'm ready for a change.

Change here I come!!!

I MAY have another job offer

OMFG. I interviewed for a position at the local health department and they called me today and told me they want to do a background check. If that clears I MAY have another job. I can't even begin to explain how excited I am about this. I've been hoping for another job and finally I took the initiative and looked for something else. If I get this job I'm saying good bye to the hospital life FOREVER. I don't need the stress. I don't need the insecurity that I feel working there and being threatened. Telling people they will be fired over something so silly as a module online is ridiculous. Fire me over almost harming someone, not over the fact that I didn't complete (even though I did and turned in twice) a freaking skill sheet.

PLEASE LORD. If you are still listening to me. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, give me this opportunity. I'll be very grateful. I really will be.  :)

Here's hoping,
Me