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The real reason I quit my ICU nurse job.
After 15 years of working in the hospital, I walked away.
This was it. If I get yelled at and made to feel small one more time, I was quitting.
If I get yelled at one more time for my whiteboard not being updated, I was quitting.
If I get yelled at by management, the doctors, staffing, or the charge nurse, I was quitting.
I got harassed to get the flu shot; I mean bullied in the workplace (this is even before COVID-19). I actually quit that job for that reason. Someone (the hospital, management, CEO) will not bully me at work.
First, I would like to say, I was not getting yelled at for reasons you expect.
Poor performance, poor patient care. No, my patients were the best part of my job. I love people. I love taking care of them, treating them like family. It was the ONLY part of being a nurse I liked and miss.
I once had an assistant nurse manager wait for me outside a patient’s room to “inform” me that my folly bag was 1/2 full and needed to be emptied. This is not an emergency (and does not need to be emptied!).
I had 5 patients, and I was dealing with a patient who just pooped the entire bed and his family…
