I am suppose to be sleeping so I can go to work in the morning but I need to vent. I work 12 hours shifts as a RN but always ends up being over 13-15 hours I am at work. Each shift which is 4 of these for me a week involves caring for a ton of Emergency Patients from 2 days old to 107 or so. I am one of the best nurses and work my butt over at work taking 7 acutely ill pts at a time with no help at all, no assistants or anyone to do the ordering or paperwork. I turned over so many people and did a heck of a job today. When it was time to go home I had to give report to this other nurse whom I can't stand and she gives me this attitude so I finally told my charge nurse I would not do it again since I have been working now with no lunch, no breaks, straight through for 14 hours at that point and I will stay until mhy pts go home. She left, came back a half hour later and gave me a lecture about not helping, not being a team player... After all of what I did today and yesterday. I never call in and have had enough of it. I refuse to go to work in the morning. I have a ton of time off banked up and of course if I call in, I get my vacation pulled which is next week. Well, how do I say fine, I quit. I have worked here for almost 3 years (I have been an RN for 10 years) and we are nationally recognized trauma center blah, blah. Our job focuses on awards more than employee happiness. So I am tired of working here and ready to return to the little ER down the street. Wish me luck, I applied and am ready to take that job and quit this high stress life. I am tired of coming home crying.