Cutting back on bedside nursing

[cardiac5]

Curious if anyone has left bedside nursing? I recently took a travel nurse recruiting job with a local company I’ve worked with for over 3 years and I’m super excited. He’s letting me work mostly remote besides 1 day a week. I’ll still pick up a few shifts prn here and there but I’m excited for the change. Curious if anyone has left the bedside and if so what did you do?


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[Ferrulewax]

Curious if anyone has left bedside nursing? I recently took a travel nurse recruiting job with a local company I’ve worked with for over 3 years and I’m super excited. He’s letting me work mostly remote besides 1 day a week. I’ll still pick up a few shifts prn here and there but I’m excited for the change. Curious if anyone has left the bedside and if so what did you do?


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I’m 2 years into nursing and already want to take the jump, lol. Just want to work long enough to have some sources of passive income and send the wife back to school so I can be a kept man.

 

[browning2480]

Not a nurse but have always thought a school nurse would be the best gig lol

 

[WoodBow]

Not nursing but I feel your pain. I went to school for xray and a couple years after I graduated I transitioned into doing lithotripsy. I'm in my 11th year of it and I could not be more burned out. I miss that honey moon phase of a new job when it is all still fun and exciting. I feel trapped by the money now. We are a single income family with 4 kids. The pay is very good but the commute and length of day are terrible. I hunted a lot more when I was poor and had a lot of free time.

 

[passinggas33]

I left bedside nursing to do anesthesia. Best decision I’ve ever made. Required a ton of time and sacrifice, but so worth it now. But I sure do miss working 3-12s and then having 4 off each week…

 

[dutch_henry]

Following thread (as a pre-nursing student, three years to go). Friends in the field talk about how much it's changed since 2020. None have jumped into travel nursing yet, but I look at the money and can totally see why you would.

 

[Fatcamp]

Nurse as a second carreer later in life. Spent two years on a cardiopulmonary floor and recently moved to the OR.

Proud to have been bedside during the pandemic, but I was happy to move on. Always knew I would move to a specialty and the OR is challenging and interesting.

 

[cardiac5]

I looked at CRNA school a while ago but after traveling a while there was no way I was gonna go back home and buckle down to go back to school. I’m over 4 years into traveling now and my fiancé who traveled with me as an ER nurse also is wanting to settle down.
I also thought about OR in the future but didn’t plan on it for another 15-20years. A lot of people I know that left the ER went to the OR and they love it. I figured why not work remote when my base salary is what I’d make as a staff nurse with our 1%yearly raises the hospital gives.


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[timekiller13]

I tried to leave the bedside. Left the ER after 5 years and went into occupational health. It was a gravy train job. And I hated it. I made it 6 weeks and went right back to the ER.

I can’t stay at the bedside forever. Physically, it’s just too demanding. I can’t imagine doing ER nursing at 55-60 yrs old. I’ve applied for a management position in our ER that is kind of a blend. You still get some bedside but also there is office work.