RN to CPA. Farewell, nursing.

Just ranting.

I'm an RN with a choppy work history. Part of that I take responsibility for, but a large portion of it is also because all but one of my workplaces have been unequivocally toxic.

I'm new to dialysis, I ask a workflow question, and my colleague replies in a condescending tone: "Wow, I don't know why you did X. We don't do that the week of doctor's rounds." Same colleague a few months prior expressed frustration to a mutual colleague that I was 'going to be needy.'

I get a break nurse to break me in the ED, I have a late lunch, return, then the charge nurse, annoyed, asks me, 'So you ask for help, I send help, and then you leave?'

I'm working during COVID in a different ED, sit down to chart, and some time later, my manager tells me, 'I gotta be honest, I catch you sitting down a lot.'

Yet another different ED, I helped resuscitate my patient who went full respiratory arrest out of nowhere, then my manager an hour later scolded me because I used an aerosolizing nebulizer instead of a self-contained (non-aerosolizing). I admit, here, I have some responsibility given this was during COVID. But as my colleagues said at the time, 'Big deal, that's not entirely on you. That type of nebulizer shouldn't even be stocked in the cart in the first place'

Well, that was cathartic.

I got my accounting degree in 2025, but briefly returned to nursing because I wanted to give it another chance. And still, the same poor treatment as I had experienced as before. Now, the answer is 'no.' And now I will tackle the CPA.

My utmost respect to all my nurse colleagues. I'm always in solidarity with you.