Accepting a New Job During COVID-19

AONN+ Blog published on February 8, 2021 in Membership, COVID-19
Kammi Fox-Kay, MSN, RN, AOCNS, ONN-CG(T)
Thoracic Oncology Nurse Navigator
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Being an oncology nurse navigator (ONN) during a pandemic has brought many challenges to the role, but changing jobs has presented even more difficulties. If 2020 did not make you evaluate your life and think about what your priorities are, then you are in the minority.

After much reflection, I decided to leave my job in the Southwest and move back to my Midwest roots. I loved my coworkers, I loved my patients, and I knew I had made a difference in the organization and to my patients in my 3 years there.

 
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