Was physically assaulted and mildly injured at work yesterday. It is a pretty normal thing in nursing, especially in my specific area of nursing. It is not the first time, it won't be the last time.
But I am a little in a burn out phase of nursing and getting the shit beat out (but I am okay, to be clear on that) of me didn't really help..
Thinking more and more that it is time to move on. That the leaders at my job are not doing enough (or anything at all) to keep nursing staff safe and they couldn't give af at the corporate level. I could easily make $20+ more an hour and probably in less dangerous settings and work my hours around some up coming things I need to be there for this summer.
On the other hand - I have this intense sense of loyalty toward my patients and place of work that makes it hard for me to leave, especially since some of them I nursed through covid twice and since I almost died in the battle. There is this..its hard to explain almost war time loyalty! Like we are in the trenches together, we almost died together, some didn't make it.
Then again I am only one of few still in this trench. We got have no nursing management that was there in early covid and we have only 5 floor nurses including myself who are the same.
We got only 2 nurse managers one started yesterday. We are staffed by about 90 percent agency staff who work day by day.
I am like should I really stay in this trench alone, on a sinking ship at this point?
And the answer is, I don't know.