Why I left Bedside Nursing

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Why do nurses leave bedside nursing? Clinical nursing is taxing on frontline caregivers as they witness the trauma of others and internalize it. Nursing can be exhausting and wearing which can lead to burnout. Watch this video to learn why I decided to leave bedside nursing.
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Lisa Chappell is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, healthcare leader, educator, and Nurse Coach with a passion for cultivating resilience and empowerment. She is sharing methods for teaching, navigating trauma and disability, and self-care while helping students, nurses, and caregivers maximize their personal and professional lives. She is an advocate for people with disabilities and along with her husband who has quadriplegia travels and navigates the world in new ways while sharing the journey. She has been a nurse for 18 years and holds her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Regis University, Masters in Nursing Education from the University of Northern Colorado, and a certification as a rehabilitation registered nurse. She has served as faculty at Regis University teaching across the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Through her RU-vid channel, she creates a resource of tutorials and videos focused on empowering nurses, students, and other caregivers.
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@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

My SMART goals guide can help you take the next step in your career. Download it for free and set some goals to apply for new roles in nursing! Click below. 👇 learn.lisachappell.com/freebie

@Beefywheels 2 года назад

I’ve finished my first year and I’ve had to take time off because I couldn’t bring myself to go back. Covid, short-staffing, mental hours, miserable and under-appreciated nurses warning me off and the public attitude to the NHS in Scotland is so demoralising. Videos like this are helping me to decide what to do.

@lifewithbella0807 2 года назад

@@Beefywheels what are you doing now? I'm in the same boat...2 months almost but still figuring out

@Beefywheels 2 года назад

@@lifewithbella0807 I’ve transferred to a uni in my home town to cut down travel expenses and be closer to family for support, but I have decided to just crack on. I’ve only got two more years then I think I’ll look into GP nursing/neonatal nursing. If I can get through these two years I’ll be able to do something I enjoy with it, hopefully. I needed the year off to “soul search” though.

@lifewithbella0807 2 года назад

@@Beefywheels I admire you for soul-searching! Time away from bedside made me realize how unhealthy the environment was like you mentioned +nightshift. Would be so much better to travel and soul-search than just staying at home though xD

@Beefywheels 2 года назад

@@lifewithbella0807 if it’s your dream to travel, please do it. Do you feel like you can complete your degree? In my year out I’ve worked as a child-minder and dog-sitter while still working in hospitals as an HCA. This meant I could enjoy other avenues of care that I value. I’ll miss the little boy and puppy I look after when I’m back in nursing though. It’s going to be tough

@papasgirl7777777 2 года назад

Lisa was my professor in nursing school and was one of the most brilliant and KIND professors I’ve ever had.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

That is so sweet! I am so glad you found my channel 😘 Would love to hear how nursing is going for you. 😀

@katrinaatkins6308 2 года назад

The way you articulated this💜

@user-gg2bj5tp9t 5 месяцев назад

This is exactly how I’m feeling now and a lot of my nurse friends are feeling the same. I hate working 5 days per week but really tired after working 3 12’s. I feel really lost and stressed.

@francecasabar6176 2 года назад

I left the bedside after 10 years of doing it as a night shift nurse. The Covid pandemic was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. I feel that nurses are not valued and are often treated like garbage by other fellow nurses, patients, doctors, administration, the CDC, JACHO, etc. I have been told I am a great nurse, have been awarded with a Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses, and have tried to keep going, but I just can’t. I have tried switching units and switching hospitals, tried case management and family health clinics, but they are more or less all the same and are not very fulfilling. I’m constantly just feeling like a number, a servant who just makes the CEO of the facility richer. I am now doing Preop nursing at an outpatient surgical center and although it has been a great improvement from bedside, there are still some toxic traits about the job, and I am seriously contemplating a change in career altogether.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

France, I really connect with your frustration and despair. What really shows is that your heart ♥️ is in the right place and your love for helping others. It makes it all the more painful when nothing in the healthcare system changes. Virtual hugs as you put yourself as a priority and prepare to navigate new roads in your career. 🤗

@travelnurseadventures3225 2 года назад

You can! You have great skills as a nurse and you can do anything, IT, Finance, online business, etc. I’m doing travel nursing and saving money for my education in accounting, I have to get out! I like nursing but hate Healthcare!

@TheKrystee 2 года назад

I left the MICU for an ambulatory endo center. A lot better but still very toxic environment. I’m planning on travel endoscopy and getting enough money to figure it out from there.

@Actavella 2 года назад

@@travelnurseadventures3225 I was thinking of doing accounting also but not sure if I would be bored, I am in NP school and hope that will help. I have been looking in to taking courses in Tech. I KNOW I cannot do bedside nursing more than 2-3 more years.

@travelnurseadventures3225 2 года назад

@@Actavella accounting will give you so many avenues: you could work from home, tutor, see spread sheets for budging. I have a friend who’s an NP and she actually left and is traveling as an RN! Everyone is different, she was over the on call daily as an NP. But there’s lots of different avenues for NP too. Remember you have an excellent skill as an RN-if you can do that you can do anything boring or not, you survived nursing school lol. Wishing you the best my fellow nurse!

@annstewart4542 3 года назад

I am thankful for your shared experience. As a new grad nurse I now intend to do 12months bedside for experience and in that time look to specialise elsewhere. Ty so much.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

You are very welcome! It sounds like you have a good plan for yourself. Open mindedness and willingness to learn will carry you far.

@vibeladiesnight 3 года назад

This is so true. I ultimately would like to help as younger nurses however I keep feeling overwhelmed as an experienced nurse!

@lisachappell9387 3 года назад

Sophia, Thank you for your comment. You highlight why self-care is so incredibly important before we can be effective in helping anyone else. Hugs to you for caring! 💜

@zanaib4923 2 года назад

The anxiety is nasty.

@bash9032 2 года назад

If you have this urge to help younger nurses, have you explored clinical instructing? So many nursing schools in my area are desperate for QUALITY instructors. Good luck in your journey!!

@miaada3 2 года назад

I watched your video as an RT and I just am a new grad RT.. I’m already feeling overwhelmed/anxious/ and just tired all the time. I am already thinking about quitting and I just started. There’s short staffing and our workload is not only doubled but tripled. I can’t handle it and I felt like I was the only one going thru this. Thank u for making me feel like I’m not the only one.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

M S I am so sorry for what you are going through as a brand new RT. Your work is so valuable but it is difficult to be effective in these circumstances, especially with so much responsibility. You are definitely not alone. Thank you so much for your service and for having the awareness to recognize your own needs in the situation.

@shannonjohnson4314 2 года назад

Thank you for all that you do! Your a true hero!

@yourmomishere331 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing this video. I am an RN with 6 years at the bedside and my time management has not been getting any better. I feel defeated everyday. I try but it’s not working. I also feel exhausted and very anxious as you expressed.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

Hey! Identify your strengths and what fills your cup in a work environment. Perhaps your current job doesn’t play to your strengths. There are many other options and just because one job doesn’t work out doesn’t mean another won’t.

@chrisnguyen5922 Год назад

Because of nursing, I had to take antidepressant meds. It's sad.

@nicholasdesnoyer8505 2 года назад

I've been a paramedic for over 15 years and am looking at going to nursing school. I have worked nights for the majority of that time 7p to 7a and I definitely identify with being completely and utterly exhausted. It is one of the things that has kept me from staring nursing school..

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

I do have another video about going back to bedside PRN. It is a nice balance. Good luck with your decision. Only you can decide what will work for you.

@josephjohnson8353 Год назад

I’ve been an RN for 25 years. DO NOT DO IT! It’s a terrible career choice.

@parrisani 3 года назад

I have only been a nurse for a little over a year and I know that I will not stay at the bedside. I work 12 hour shifts, and it’s exactly like you said. When I get home I immediately fall asleep. No time to do anything enjoyable. On my days off my body is just exhausted. My back and feet are so sore I can barely stand and I’m young. I am also jaded by the healthcare system. I can’t care for my patients the way I want to because of charting and micromanaging from my UD. I am happy that you found a career in nursing that give you balance and fulfills you. Hopefully, I will find that one day.

@lisachappell9387 3 года назад

parrisani, Thank you for commenting. Giving you a virtual hug. 🤗 Since you are just over a 1 year mark, I can say that it does get better from there. Especially given that you have been working during a pandemic. Hang in there and work towards what you want is what I would say. Since you are seeking, I know you will also find a place that gives you peace in nursing as well!

@bash9032 2 года назад

I have been a RN for almost 7 years at the bedside (high acuity/cardiac stepdown) and this past year has been the most challenging and traumatic, and that's saying a lot considering how anxious and timid I was my first 1-3 years. All of that to say, your feelings of being burnt out are well-understood and completely justified. You came into this profession at an insanely challenging time, compounded on the fact that your first 2 years as a nurse are already so stressful as you grow into your role. Keep your head in the game -- learn everything you can and use that experience as leverage. Ask to shadow in other departments early on. Network while you're doing that. Befriend the clinical instructors if that's something you're interested in. Keep your resume up to date. There ARE options for you, probably sooner than you think. "One day" is not so far away, especially with the amount of shortages our profession is experiencing as a whole. Hang in there and take care of yourself. Wishing you all the best!

@Beefywheels 2 года назад

Hi, I’m a second year student nurse and I’m really struggling with all the things you’ve just mentioned. Would love to talk to someone who’s gone through something similar as I don’t want to change career but I’m not enjoying it.

@bash9032 2 года назад

@@Beefywheels This is a tough call. Ask yourself why you don't feel you are enjoying it, because there can be so many reasons -- some of those reasons will start to fade the more knowledge and experience you gain, and other reasons may escalate as time goes on. Is it your temperament? Is it the culture? Is it where you are conducting class and clinical? Nursing can be a very versatile career, but you have to learn to grow thick skin, and be willing to move around if you find yourself in a job that is draining you. It is hard to do any of that without getting experience first. This is why it's important to reflect on your choice for becoming a nurse and what you hope to get out of this career. I wanted to help people, or at least be part of the healing process for patients. 7 years in the hospital and I did not feel I was doing what I set out to do. I am now exploring other options -- I went from one full time nursing job, to one part time job and 2 per diem jobs. I work in rehabilitation now, one job is inpatient and the other is outpatient. I am also going to start clinical instructing first semester students so I can try to help them build a foundation for their career -- something I feel my nursing school instructors failed at. Come up with a vision, then choose your path. You won't get it right the first time. It will be tough. But you CAN make a meaningful career out of nursing, IF nursing offers positions and job-types that interest you. It is so hard. I hope you find what you need.

@bash9032 2 года назад

I needed to hear all of this. Subscribed :) Thank you for sharing!

@angela32615 Год назад

Thank you for sharing your experience with us honestly and openly, it is appreciated, because a lot of us can relate. I recently resigned from my position and I was experiencing all the same symptoms of exhaustion, anxiety, depression, boredom, and add on bullying and harassment on top of that...this was my cue to get out and never look back. There was a deep sense of feeling overwhelmed and unfulfilled, I wasn't growing or evolving. When you are doing the same thing day in and day out and there is no growth, this is a big sign to get out.

@luzmaldonado5951 Год назад

OMG, I am feeling like that. I need to think about my next step.

@formerfundienowfree4235 2 года назад

I left hospital nursing after 32 years. Now working in a medical daycare for kids. I struggle with feeling underemployed, irrelevant and understimulated. But then I remind myself that this is the job I dreamed about because I could no longer give so much mental bandwidth to my career. I'm 53 and I am hoping that this is my stopgap to retirement.

@diplomat2623 Год назад

Try legal Nurse consulting.

@Ryan78336 2 года назад

I work in aged care at the moment, but I’ve done rehab and adore nursing too, for the past 4 years and your point about being exhausted, weighed down by the responsibility I have in my job. Your point about having watched so much suffering and death, about not working to your full scope, (There is a reason I did not want a desk job and a reason I avoid administrative tasks) your story resonates with me heavily and even while I’m young and relatively new ish to my job, I find myself with the intention to veer off into another branch of clinical work away from the bedside and away from the nursing home. My mistakes do hurt people and I think I have had it with this responsibility. There’s only so much of that I can cope with. Feeling defeated was something I had to work hard to reframe in my head, especially once I fully realised what the issue was and that it wasn’t simply that I needed a holiday. I had worked so hard for so long only to continually make errors and to suffer setbacks. My job has become a sauce of stress and pain. Once I reassessed my deep down priorities and realised that I did not actually want my work to consume me, to be a workaholic and that I do not want nor can I cope with the responsibility I have… that was it. I’m looking seriously into retraining in something else. I think there’s a lot to be said for grief as well. If you’ve worked so hard for so long to become a nurse, something you think you’ll always be… and then you realise that it really isn’t you, you do grieve that as a loss and some may see it as a defeat, beat themselves up over it. I know I am. Thank you for sharing your story.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

Like you are saying, you need a break. Maybe a holiday. Maybe more. Maybe you are right that leaving is best for you. There is no shame in any of these choices. There is a reason, a season or a lifetime for everything. Figure out what it is that is making you feel trapped and work to change it little by little or all at once. In a video coming up, I will be talking about returning to bedside. Not full time, but PRN-on my terms. I have your back Ryan. I can see that you care which is why you feel so torn up about it. Go easy on yourself and don’t feel bad about recalibrating.

@jsoul6647 2 года назад

I've been in ICU for 2 years. For the most part, I felt my anxiety or fear was tolerable for the most part since I was a new grad...then I switched to day shift and my sister passed away from covid complications....1. Day shift is like starting a new job....and It's WAYYY more work! 2. PTSD now consumes me ....3. My soul feels heart broken.......2 years ago I would have never believed to feel exhausted, anxious as hell, and not liking bedside nursing at all, I was the most cheerleader attitude, get it done, let's do this attitude. Now....I'm Lost...

@cindyeisenberg8367 Год назад

The best thing I did, when I used to work is get out of bedside nursing and do QI in home health. Still, I had to get a coding certificate and become a coder, which was all I could do with an associates degree. I hated that job. But, because I have a severe disability, I retired. It was the best thing to happen to me. The only way for you to be less tired at bedside nursing is working part time. I used to do that, until I figured out what I wanted to do. I wish that I had more support, in my days.

@jezreelgovender7921 2 года назад

Nursing is lacking transformational leaders like you. It's all about saving money while exploiting staff and not pushing us to our next level. God bless u

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

This is the sweetest comment. It came on a day I am teaching a new leadership class and wasn’t feeling much like a leader. Thank you for taking the time to comment. 🙏

@josephjohnson8353 Год назад

Nursing is a downward spiral. It sucks your body and mind dry. After 25 years, I’m burnt. I quit. Time to heal and be a human again.

@MissPrissRN88 2 года назад

I realized that bedside nursing wasn’t for me during nursing school. I was told that I must have bedside experience in order to move on, so almost 4 years later, I’m STILL at the bedside 😫. I actually feel stuck because every time I look on common job posting sites, most of the positions are for bedside nursing. Also, I am pursuing my master’s so I REALLY feel stuck now as bedside nursing provides flexibility 🤦🏽‍♀️

@1babygirlg 2 года назад

Yikes! Same situation here but I refuse to do bedside as a new nurse. How have you been handling it and what area of bedside?

@MissPrissRN88 2 года назад

@@1babygirlg I’ve just been taking it day by day. Some days though I’m like “F*#+ this!!! I’m about to quit!!!” I still go on those job posting sites in hopes that I will find something that’s not at the bedside that also will provide flexibility while I pursue my master’s.

@BienAimee868 Год назад

I gave into that advice too and wound up doing 5 years. I got used to the flexibility especially after going part time. Then I quit and later found an outpatient gig. The hrs are better but I don't like that it's 5 days a week. I'm already trying to search for a work from home job🙏

@SLB9110 2 года назад

I really want to become a clinical educator. I am so afraid of bedside care because it's so more than providing patient care. It's about surviving shifts now. 😞. Plus, it risks family time. I worked in the lab and it broke me because I was missing holidays and family time.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

Bedside can be scary. What do you like about clinical education? It sounds like your family is really important to you right now. Having a lower stress position with no holidays and weekends sounds like the way to go.

@quelquun2018 2 года назад

I've yet to take my NCLEX and bedside nursing is something that i know 100% is not for me!!!

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

Luckily, there are so many areas within nursing that you don’t have to be limited to bedside if you don’t want to. What areas are you lookin at?

@1babygirlg 2 года назад

I feel the same. I hated my preceptorship in med surgery the whole time. I have no interest in the hospital at all and damn those 12 hours shifts. I was a case manager before so I'm hoping to go into nurse case management or something similar.

@quelquun2018 2 года назад

@@lisachappell9387 I can see myself being a pediatric clinic nurse

@mattscomedybriefs325 2 года назад

I loved bedside nursing! I miss it so much!- Dawn ( the picture is not me).

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

What do you do now?

@icecrystal3255 2 года назад

What did you love about bedside nursing?

@user-ll6fc6zo3y 9 месяцев назад

❤❤

@jacquelinejacobson6789 2 года назад

Long time ( 30 + years) of beside nursing CAN and WILL burn out the nurse. The higher the stress/demand ( ICU), the higher the burnout.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

So true! It is hard to sustain that amount of energy for a long period of time. I think this is why it is so important for nurses to figure out what balance is best for their lives.

@maggie3315 2 года назад

When all the nurses leave beside what going to happen to all the sick ppl.

@lisachappell9387 2 года назад

So true. Nurses always needed.

@zanaib4923 2 года назад

What happens if all the nurses get mentally sick and then physically because their government representatives and community don't care for them? Hope we don't find out.

@maggie3315 2 года назад

@@zanaib4923 That's poor excuse my point is if you decide to be a Nurse but do not want to care for the sick but want to sit by a desk a army of you all; I suggest getting a desk job instead miss Florence Nightingale.

@zanaib4923 2 года назад

@@maggie3315 hey I like the ring of that! “ Miss Florence Nightingale “ I think there should be an annual pageant.

@maggie3315 2 года назад

@@zanaib4923 An annual pageant to qualify: must be a beside nurse.