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The 2011 Survey of RN Job Satisfaction and Career Plans was conducted by AMN Healthcare.
This study explores the career plans, satisfaction levels and professional concerns of registered nurses.
Please feel free to add a comment or open a discussion and share your thoughts with fellow DFW members when you login to the DFW Nurses Lounge to read the report.
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Great Article! I'll make the 5yr mark this October. Yes, I am thinking & planning a change from bedside nursing. It's mentally & physically draining from the main three areas: patient, families, and administration. I am burnt out. I have scaled back my hours, so that I can figure out the next plan of action. Nursing is multidimensional, so I feel that I won't have a problem finding my "niche".
I have been a nurse for over 25 years and have seen many changes. In the last 10 years I have seen hospital nursing go in a different direction. In our facility we are expected to take on more tasks, take on more patients, and have less help to provide care to our patients. Then our administration is upset when our patient satisfaction is down. I currently am working pediatrics. With our new administrator we have hired two consulting firms to see where "productivity" is down. Pediatrics in one of the units in which administration feels the nurses are not being as "productive" as we should. Because we are a small unit- we sometimes will have not have as many patients as those nurses on medical or surgical. But we also have no extra help when we are busy. We are answering our own phones, doing our own admissions, signing off our own orders, etc., while taking care of these young patients. The administration has decided that we are to become a "mobile pediatric unit". This apparently is common in facilities our size....but none of us have ever heard of this. Apparently our pediatric unit will go to other areas of the hospital that are busy so the pediatric nurse can be available to help out on these units (along take care of her pediatric patients). I think this has to be the dumbest idea our administration has come up with. We have many supplies that aren't found in adult units (including emergency medications and equipment). I am so burnt at this point that I would love to find another job. Isn't funny how these people who have never worked a day in their life as a nurse make these decisions. Patient care is becoming less important and productivity is all those in administration care about. I got into nursing because I care about people. I can see why those leave nursing...I am going back to school to get out of floor nursing because I just can't take the stress anymore.