Hello world!

I continue in my quest to find a suitable nursing job. It seems at 49 I am getting too old to keep up with the kids although 49 is the median age of nurses in the US. In my last job they were just interested in how fast I could run(not very) not with how much I know or how I could help in any other way. I think of leaving bedside nursing and it makes me sad because I have worked very hard and long to get the varied critical care experience that I have but I can’t seem to find a good fit. I know that my kind of experience is needed but I do cost more and administration does NOT want to pay anymore than they absolutely have to. This leaves the units with the increasingly sicker patients with mostly younger,inexperienced staff.It’s not fair to them,the patients or to me. I need a job and there are many nurses like me forced to sit on the sidelines as hospitals decrease their budgets by eliminating essential personnel. The remaining nurses have to do more with less and the hospitals wonder why there are more mistakes and problems with infection control? I’m not slighting anyone who’s working in a hospital right now,God bless you but they are going to realize that they are asking for the impossible. I know many ER’s are at their breaking point.