General Disdain Toward Job

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I have a question regarding the amount of negative that I perceive within the nursing community. I am currently a tech so obviously I do not have the full taste for it exactly but given my job location in the military our nurses more so handle admin type work and LPNs and techs do a lot of the hands on work. My question is simple, is it simply having the wrong expectations about nursing that makes some nurses so angry about their jobs? I mean granted I can understand feeling under appreciated and feeling like you don't get paid enough to deal with some patients **** and the incessant poor communication from MDs and down the chain but overall I have to say that I really do not understand the poor attitudes. It's the job you signed up for and gave your sweat blood and tears for and I get scoffed whenever I transport a patient to a different unit. I know some patients are a pain but no one truly enjoys having to be in a hospital. I worked corrections as my previous job and I can honestly say that the inmates and people who came in and out really hated us so I don't know if maybe that life experience is what causes me to not understand or if it's a burn out thing maybe? I was just wondering if someone could shed some light on it? Second part of my question, why is it that more experienced nurses have such ******** attitudes toward new people? It's something that I have never understood it's your job to provide patient care and train the new nurse or tech or cna shadowing you I don't understand the attitude? I think it's unnecessary and disrespectful and the excuse "because that's how it was for me" is dumb.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Perhaps you just work with some bitter/angry/unhappy folks who happen to be nurses? I'd hate to generalize about nurses' attitudes from one person's one-facility experience.

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Perhaps you just work with some bitter/angry/unhappy folks who happen to be nurses? I'd hate to generalize about nurses' attitudes from one person's one-facility experience.

I mean I understand what you're saying and by no means am I trying to generalize it I just was more so curious as to the mentality behind it.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
I mean I understand what you're saying and by no means am I trying to generalize it I just was more so curious as to the mentality behind it.

Hard to say, not knowing the nurses involved or their history with the facility. I'm hoping that you will not assume that "all" nurses act or feel as your co-workers apparently do.

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Because we are all evil. We go home and eat puppies every night. We don't give to charity. We never have sex. We can't pee standing up, and those that do, hate it! We never say thank you when someone holds the door for us. We stick pins in our eyes to ensure we are miserable. We hate techs. We hate CNAs, We hate MAs. We cath ourselves because we cant take a break when we want. We are pro Trump. We are pro Kardashain. We are ugly, inside and out....

Nah. You've probably just worked with a few nurses having a bad day. Good luck in all your future endeavors!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I have worked at several different hospitals and although there is always a couple of nasty coworkers I have felt that overall the majority of us are great to work with and at least in psych rather fun too. :) Maybe things are unusually bad at your present workplace.

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Specializes in Childbirth Educator, Birth Doula.
Because we are all evil. We go home and eat puppies every night. We don't give to charity. We never have sex. We can't pee standing up, and those that do, hate it! We never say thank you when someone holds the door for us. We stick pins in our eyes to ensure we are miserable. We hate techs. We hate CNAs, We hate MAs. We cath ourselves because we cant take a break when we want. We are pro Trump. We are pro Kardashain. We are ugly, inside and out....

Nah. You've probably just worked with a few nurses having a bad day. Good luck in all your future endeavors!

I. Am. CRYING. :laugh:

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

It's always those who are unhappiest in their situation who will make the most noise about it. Staff that enjoy their jobs don't dance & sing about it in the hallways, but miserable staff usually complain loudly & frequently.

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I work in an LTACH and my co-workers are amazing. The CNAs, LVNs, and RNs all really care about our patients. We work hard and care about our practice. They really inspire me. Sure, we might complain about a patient privately, but we really do our best.

I have worked in other fields before nursing and have noticed that some companies have a culture of negativity. We are not the best paid healthcare workers but we are treated fairly and with respect. Maybe the negativity you see is more about the company, not the nature of the actual job.

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There are miserable people in every profession.

Want to hear some world-class whining and moaning? Listen to salespeople complain about their jobs. You'd think the planet was falling into the sun.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.

There are many factors that go into a working environment becoming toxic like you are describing. There is probably more than one cause. But once that kind of environment gets established, people who get something out of it stay, and those that dislike it leave and in this way it is self preserving. Like other posters said, this is not how nurses are in general, this is just a sick situation where you are working.

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It's pecking order. Many nurses don't like their jobs and don't have an effective outlet for expressing that. We deal with unreasonable expectations from jchco,bosses, other nurses, clients and families.(she's 96 and you want to do what?)

plus everyone is not the same so intelligence varies, understanding vary, not to mention we are human and constantly asked to do superhuman things. Older nurses myself included dislike the bright eyed ignorance that some new nurses display they come unable to bend around concepts they don't know and some of them refuse to think at all and have the nerve to want to come to ICU. I really hate the way they make nursing seem glossy and star like when really we are just playing the hands dealt to us.

plus all this technology is not making us faster it's taking fromthe pure essence of what nursing is: encouraging the client to reach their optimal level. It's hard to do that when a client has 15 meds eating chips and diabetic refusing education saying "I've been a diabetic for 16 years ain't nothing you can tell me."(!)

plus humble servitude is not taught anymore in nursing school so some of the new ones don't want to do what they think is beneath them. I have witnessed nurses leave a room to go find a tech to change a brief... Really? Or they spend a year nursing and go off and become NP since they started giving them

out in cereal boxes so we have a desk full of new inexperienced NPs who really don't do anything.

jchco is not helping and besides they work for the money not nurses. Go research the connection between JCHCO and Purdue Pharma (makers of Oxycontin) then you will know why pain is the fifth vital sign, and it's not because it should be either.

until we go back to nurses socializing nurses then i don't know where it's going.

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