Desperate Nurse Says Work Has Ruined Her – ‘I Don’t Know Myself Anymore’
Nurses are the largest part of the American health care workforce. They do about 30% of hospital work across the country, they are on the front lines, doing the daily work of curing diseases and saving lives.
The daily pressures they face have a profound effect on their mental health, especially since 2019, when the epidemic began to overwhelm hospitals, leading many to work until in the end.
One woman, who has been a nurse for two years, was brutally honest about the emotional pain of working in a hospital without adequate support.
The traumatized nurse said the job had ‘destroyed her.’
She shared her story on the r/nursing subreddit, saying, “I just need to get my thoughts out there in a forum where others will understand.”
She explained her professional approach, explaining that she started her nursing career in outpatients, then in the Emergency Department, and now works in the Intensive Care Unit.
She said: “Since I became a nurse, I don’t know myself anymore.
She said: “It started as a constant panic attack, worrying about messing up, making a serious mistake, being attacked by a violent patient.
During her time in the Emergency Department, she was part of a “very stressful situation … in a public hospital that was not equipped to handle such a case, and it did not go well.”
While he is in a different place of work, he is still troubled by the events that happened, saying, “I have not recovered from this; I think about it every day, every week I have nightmares, and when I go to the hospital it makes me feel sick.”
“I’m really at the end of my rope [and] I feel lost,” he said.
She revealed how bad her mental health is, noting that she finds herself “wishing sometimes I wouldn’t wake up when I’m asleep.”
He said: “I feel like I should leave this job. “The thought of any health work now makes me feel sick.”
‘The healthcare industry is broken, and nurses are suffering because of it,’ he said.
According to a 2021 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, nursing-related burnout has reached an all-time high. In a survey of 3,957,661 nurses, 9.5% reported quitting their jobs, and 31.5% reported burnout as their reason for leaving.
Additional reasons that nurses cited as reasons they left or considered leaving included a stressful work environment, insufficient staffing, and a lack of good management and leadership.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing reports that nearly 100,000 nurses quit their jobs during the pandemic due to stress, burnout or burnout.
About 900,000 nurses plan to retire by 2027, which will cause a major crisis in America’s health care system.
50.8% of nurses say they feel emotionally exhausted several times a week or every day. 56.4% said they felt used at the same rate.
Burnout was most pronounced among nurses with 10 years of experience or less, resulting in a 3.3% reduction in the nursing workforce by 2021.
In one survey, 19% of nurses under the age of 35 reported that they felt their workplace cared about their well-being.
The nurse who shared her story captured the complex relationship between trauma and burnout, bringing the statistics to life.
As a fellow nurse noted in the comments, there is nothing wrong with leaving an unsafe, stressful workplace.
“Your mental health, emotional health, physical health, and spiritual health come first,” they said, advising her not to take time off from nursing. or find another job.
“Life is too short, you waste the good years,” they decided.
A nurse deserves a stable, balanced life. He deserves to move beyond his work-related trauma. Leaving a job that is no longer helping him will allow him to put himself first and create his own healing, which is the most important thing he can do.
Alexandra Blogier is a writer for the news and entertainment team at YourTango. He talks about social issues, pop culture, and all things related to the entertainment industry.
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