I hate nursing..

Hmm. So not the fear of making a mistake/scared to go to work everyday thing that most of us had.

There really are plenty of other areas out there. I float to other units because my hospital has no float pool, and I can say for instance I was BORED TO TEARS in Rehab. Oh so not for me. And for me personally, I don't know if I would like just "staight onocology", I have medicine as well (but not really surgery). But the medicine helps to keep me going, seen some darn interesting stuff I must say.

But I suppose you need to ask yourself what you were looking to get out of nursing and see if you are getting it.

I went right into acute psych and love it. I will probably stay in psych for the duration. It is easier than most other specialties, cleaner, and really entertaining! I hated med/surg in clinicals, would never work it.

The one unfortunate thing is that in this economy, it's almost impossible to find the floor you want. You just take what you can get! Hopefully the economy will improve and allow most of us to find our "niche."

That's awesome! I'd love to do psych nursing at some point. :-)

I am a new grad, about 6 months into my first job. I hate it too a lot of the time. Literally want to cry before I start 3 in a row on. I'm on the night shift. You didn't mention if you were or not, but I think that's what I hate about nursing. I'm having a really hard time on nights. Not so much because of the time adjustment but because I feel very isolated from my friends and family due to having to sleep when I am not at work. When you work nights, you dont' get together with your friends after work to go to dinner or have drinks or play sports in rec leagues or anything. You get off work, go to sleep, wake up and go to work again. It's making me depressed.

My worry is that it's not nights I hate, but nursing. I'm hoping that's not the case and just hoping I can get on a day shift sooner rather than later. If it is nursing I hate, well then, I have no clue.

Know you aren't alone. I wish I had someone on my floor to commiserate with. It's pretty lonely here. No other new (or even recent grads) at all. Good luck! Hope you find your place in it all.

I think it's entirely normal to hate nursing. There are a lot of RN's out there who are not at the bedside. They will talk about the good sides of nursing, yes; but they are not at the bedside. Believe me, don't worry - you are not alone in how you feel. And those bedside nurses who like their jobs - we are very thankful for you; takes some fortitude, definitely.

a good friend of mine told me that if you dont enjoy your work then better resign especiialy if it gives you a lot of stress . its because when you dont love your job, you wont be able to perform and execute your job well. maybe at first you thought you wont like it but as days go by you will realize you are starting to enjoy it.

I disagree that if you don't love your job you can't be effective etc. As I posted, I am not happy w/my situation or my floor (and right now due to economy feel I must stay put). But I still give good care, my patients like me, I am a consciencous and hard working nurse. I can function due to discipline and because I care about my patients and since I have taken on the obligation and my patients depend on me, every day I do the best for my patients that I can. My patients come first. That said, I feel my floor is unsafe at times and I don't respect my nurse manager or the administration because of this. And I myself have gone in, along with others to speak directly to my nurse manager and she always come back with some theme of, "But it's the budget". So, at this point I would feel it is true when I typed in I hate nursing. Not all of it, not the patients but the situation that many nurses, including me, find themselves in , yes, I hate it.

True - and you will see on Web boards that older nurses regret & rue how nursing has changed over the years. It is a repeated theme. The mighty dollar now rules health care, and this has made for some bad changes over the years - short-staffing, 12-hour shifts, higher acuity patients with shorter stays, lack of respect for patient-care issues over money issues, etc., etc., etc. I would wager that many of the really good nurses notice & feel these extreme shortcomings of their profession the most, and are the ones who hate their situation the more for it. The good nurses, I bet, reach burnout quickest.

Hmm, I never thought of it that way, about the good nurses burning out quickest. Good point. I am the type if I have a problem/complaint I will not just whine about it but will try and go and bring it to the person who can do something about it (purportedly any way). I feel better about it, atleast I have tried to communicate the problems. In my case it was like banging my head against a wall for all the good it did. My nurse mananger seems like a nice person on a personal level but she will not go to bat for her nurses, or her floor, or her patients. Forget about the conditions for the nurses but for patient safety. My hospital is wonderful at taking surveys but very poor at implementing changes that would solve the problem. One question they ask each year: Would you want a friend or family member to be a patient on your floor? Heck NO. Pretty much everyone answers the same. But nothing is every done to make things better. Very frustrating.