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What conditions would cause so many nurses to leave? Our ER has been losing friends fast. Why is there such a large turnover in nursing? I'm going to school, yet I talk to many RN's who are looking for a new career!!

As an outsider looking in, you need to do something that has you less up tight. Everyone has something stressful to deal with, and begining a RN does not make yours special. Someone can be sympathetic to your issues. No, I am not a nurse if that's your next question, but I do have common sense. Everyone knows nurses have a very difficult job, but this is the career you have chosen. The person you are upset with is not on this post. You might need to apologize:crying2: :crying2: :crying2:

Oh dear. RN's have more stress than most. It is a job with life and death responsibility. Yes we have chosen a difficult career. I understand that better working conditions for nurses equals better outcomes for patients. I will be a patient someday. I will someday be old and acutely ill and unable to care for myself.

This is why I stick around in this field. I remain outspoken and tell it like it is without worrying about sounding like a whiner. I want things to improve. I want all patients to get good care. I want to get good care someday.

I don't want the nurses who are caring for me when I am suffering working under the same conditions that I am. Sure I could run away and get an easier job doing something else i.e. working in a newsroom or at Walmart. But I am going to stick around and fight for my patients and the people who are going to be responsible for me someday when I am sick.

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:nuke: I LOVE nursing of course I only work 2 8hr shifts a week. I think nurses get themselves in financial binds then have to work and it becomes a DRAG.

I work as a staff nurse in a commmunity hospital I usually have 4 primary patients and team lead 2 patients with an LPN yes this staffing is GREAT! I have been in nursing for 16 years and have done alot of different jobs but I am most HAPPY now, look at it this way it took me 16 years to find this job just keep looking and if it isn't good move on there are good places to work.

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You know we are an absolutely talented group of people whom God has chosen. To do any type of work which the mentally and physically retarded folks of this world cannot manage to cope doing. So there you go.. consider your self privileged.. and hit back when you need to.

Saints also do it..

Oh yes, you have said it all so well!
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It is a job with life and death responsibility. Yes we have chosen a difficult career. I understand that better working conditions for nurses equals better outcomes for patients. I will be a patient someday. I will someday be old and acutely ill and unable to care for myself.

This is why I stick around in this field. I remain outspoken and tell it like it is without worrying about sounding like a whiner. I want things to improve. I want all patients to get good care. I want to get good care someday.

I don't want the nurses who are caring for me when I am suffering working under the same conditions that I am. Sure I could run away and get an easier job doing something else i.e. working in a newsroom or at Walmart. But I am going to stick around and fight for my patients and the people who are going to be responsible for me someday when I am sick.

Yes , well said, we too will be at the mercy of our present healthcare system one day, think.
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Specializes in LTC.
Oh dear. RN's have more stress than most. It is a job with life and death responsibility. Yes we have chosen a difficult career. I understand that better working conditions for nurses equals better outcomes for patients. I will be a patient someday. I will someday be old and acutely ill and unable to care for myself.

This is why I stick around in this field. I remain outspoken and tell it like it is without worrying about sounding like a whiner. I want things to improve. I want all patients to get good care. I want to get good care someday.

I don't want the nurses who are caring for me when I am suffering working under the same conditions that I am. Sure I could run away and get an easier job doing something else i.e. working in a newsroom or at Walmart. But I am going to stick around and fight for my patients and the people who are going to be responsible for me someday when I am sick.

The statement I made was not to all nurses. I have worked with some of the best nurses there are and I love them to death. I have also worked with some nurses who are uptight and seems to not like their jobs. I myself have worked in very very high stressful situations dealing with patients lives. By the way you sound like one of the nurses I love to work with. I have worked in labor and delivery, post-partum/med-surg( yeah, this hospital had mommy,baby and sick patients on the same floor:confused: ) and surgery. The reason why I made this statement was because of the comment of " you are not a nurse so why are you speaking on this matter." I myself have left my job crying after going throught without lunch and worrying about lots of thing that the nurse themselves are worried about!!! I know you are the licensed professional and I really respect that, and nurses are OVER WORKED BIG TIME and I sympathize with her, but do not belittle someone else for not understanding.:nuke:

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Specializes in LTC.
as an outsider, looking in, you are blind as a bat. you think that nurses need to be less "uptight"!!!! i wonder how layed back and chilled you would like the nurse that was taking care of your loved one that was in cardiac or resp arrest. i can promise you she won't be taking a bathroom break, you should apologize and sympathy does not change a thing. signed ronna, sorry, but now you've given me a headache and my cheeks are red

why are you so uptight, take a chill pill, i love the nursing profession. they are over worked and under paid!!! i surely would not want miss uptight taking care of me either!!! who i would want taking care of my love one is, someone who is not uptight, without a headache and no red cheeks:scrying: :scrying:

sorry, just having fun, seriously, i know nurses have a very very difficult job and i thank god for nurses and the profession.:smokin:

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Specializes in Cardiac, med/surg, ICU, telemetry.
why are you so uptight, take a chill pill, i love the nursing profession. they are over worked and under paid!!! i surely would not want miss uptight taking care of me either!!! who i would want taking care of my love one is, someone who is not uptight, without a headache and no red cheeks:scrying: :scrying:

sorry, just having fun, seriously, i know nurses have a very very difficult job and i thank god for nurses and the profession.:smokin:

well my friend, you should be happy to know that i took a chill pill and i feel much better now, hopefully that was my last loss of control, and i don't mean bladder control! ha ha. i've been quite stressed lately but is no excuse for being rude. forgive please? i'll try to be good in the future.

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Hey Ronna, no need to apologise to anyone, we are all entitled to a few nervous breakdowns before we retire from this field!!:chuckle

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I'm graduating in May w/ my R.N. & in general I had my "reality check" several months ago ......

I'm going to try to SOMEHOW make it work, because I've invested so much time & money into it (actually, I do like Psych...?)

But, I will NOT ever recommend nursing to anyone from here on out, actually I tell them to run the other way & don't look back!....

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Specializes in LTC.
Well my friend, you should be happy to know that I took a chill pill and I feel much better now, hopefully that was my last loss of control, and I don't mean bladder control! ha ha. I've been quite stressed lately but is no excuse for being rude. Forgive please? I'll try to be good in the future.

I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else. You were not rude, you just expressed your feelings and I respect that:cool: .

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To me, at least, this is also absurd.

As a fellow student, I think we need to quit lecturing RN's about the way things are because, quite frankly, we really don't know until we're in their shoes.

When instructors say things like this, the first thing you have to ask is ... if things were so great then why aren't you still at the bedside? The fact is: they got out for a reason. I've asked my instructors this same question and, most of the time, they've fessed up. Teaching is a much cushier job ... and they know it. They tend to forget what it was like once they get into academia.

And btw ... when RN's take their lunches when you're externing, part of the reason for that is ... you're externing and helping them with some, if not alot of the work (at least if you're not a total novice.) Ask them if they're taking lunch on days when they don't have any extra help.

I've been externing in California where ratios and working conditions are better than most places. And it's still very tough. These patients are so sick and the acuities are so high ... try taking lunch when one patient's blood sugar is plummeting, another's BP is dropping like a rock and yet another patient's temp has jumped to 103.

Meanwhile, management is riding you to discharge this patient and admit another so they can make a few extra bucks. And, even if the other patients are stable some of them are patients from hell who are riding the call lights like crazy and management will write you up for not answering the light in two seconds flat because of their customer service criteria BS.

I'm sorry but, as a student ... I feel I need to say this: SHUT UP until you're actually doing the job with YOUR LICENSE ON THE LINE.

Because neither you nor I know what it's really like.

:typing

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I like the way you think, HELLLO nurse. I worked as a CNA b/f and during nursing school. The best thing that came of it was i became aware of the *crap* involved - and better know what to expect from management/ the system now that I am a RN. I better know how to navigate it (the system) and nothing shocks me. Sometimes I wonder where I would be if I hadn't had that previous 'conditioning.' If only I could do things over........

Thanks. I started as a CNA, as well.

:cheers: From one former CNA turned RN to another.

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