I feel so trapped...
I want to leave my job. I am actively looking for a new job. It is SO hard. *This* is why I wanted to leave last March when I had 3 offers on the table. I am such an idiot for not taking them at the time. Now I feel like I can't get out.
I am an RN. A nurse. I don't work with patients at the moment, and I want to. In order to get back to working with patients they don't want to see a lapse in clinical hours. I have not been in an inpatient setting for a year and a half. I keep hearing from the travel companies that I need recent clinical experience. They all have my resume and are submitting my resume to various hospitals. Ultimately its up to the hospitals whether they will take someone without recent experience... so there is a small chance small, very small.
I'm also talking to the local hospitals to try and get on at one of them, but that is hard too... same problems... no "recent" experience.
A part of me feels like I made such a bad decision leaving the NICU when I did... but at the time it was right for me and my family. I don't want to regret the past year and a half, because I have learned a lot and I have liked my job (over all)... Its just way too much for one person, or four people... or ten... it is huge, and my company doesn't have the money to hire enough to do it right. I don't like not doing things right.
For now, I'm trapped... I'm stuck at this job until I can figure out a way back in to clinical. I wish it didn't make me so sad :-(
I am an RN. A nurse. I don't work with patients at the moment, and I want to. In order to get back to working with patients they don't want to see a lapse in clinical hours. I have not been in an inpatient setting for a year and a half. I keep hearing from the travel companies that I need recent clinical experience. They all have my resume and are submitting my resume to various hospitals. Ultimately its up to the hospitals whether they will take someone without recent experience... so there is a small chance small, very small.
I'm also talking to the local hospitals to try and get on at one of them, but that is hard too... same problems... no "recent" experience.
A part of me feels like I made such a bad decision leaving the NICU when I did... but at the time it was right for me and my family. I don't want to regret the past year and a half, because I have learned a lot and I have liked my job (over all)... Its just way too much for one person, or four people... or ten... it is huge, and my company doesn't have the money to hire enough to do it right. I don't like not doing things right.
For now, I'm trapped... I'm stuck at this job until I can figure out a way back in to clinical. I wish it didn't make me so sad :-(