I feel like everybody hates being a nurse!!!

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Seriously all I see people do is complain about how hard nursing is and why their job sucks. Does anyone actually enjoy their job haha? It's making some of us people in college get sketchy about our career choices.

Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.
I was falling back in love with my job until last month when a patient punched me. Out of the blue punched me. Not drunk, high or demented just plain mean.

I'm on workers comp and the husband wants me to leave.

I hope you are filing charges against this patient.

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Specializes in IMC.

I love Nursing too. I just cannot stand the politics that go along with it. I also do not like it when insurance companies companies deny care care to people. That frustrates the heck out of me!!

I do look forward going to work too. Even on my worst days, I went back the next day knowing that it would be better that the day before. That is the joy of Nursing. Nothing is never the same from day to day! :)

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

I absolutely love being a nurse. Sometimes I really dislike my job, and maybe even "hate" a task I'm assigned, but I'll always love being a nurse!

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

OOOBoy! I was thinking about writing something along the lines of hating nursing but I THOUGHT my angel of mercy halo might get a ding in it. It's been hard living up to the image of nursing. I was educated at the largest Catholic nursing school west of the Mississippi so I got the complimentary guilt trip of you can always do better. I TRUELY LOVED nursing the first 20 years or so. I actually said out loud "I can't believe they are paying me to do this!" I took advantage of the nursing shortage and with my critical care skills I travelled from Missouri to Virginia, Hawaii, Montana, Arizona and Washington. Just LOVED it!! In the last 5 years though I've gotten .........I don't know ..... jaded, skeptical, disappointed maybe. The corporate-hospital model has defeated me. Too much of the time I don't really care and I can't admit that to myself so I just say I'm having a bad day and I hurt all over. I want to encourage young uns to go into nursing and enjoy it as much as I did but I think that era is over and it's all about the money. Yes, we're entitled to a fair wage but going into nursing "just for the money" is an endless pursuit of happiness.

Wow...This little *****-fest has been enlightening to me. I actually feel a bit better and am thinking I have so much to be grateful for. As they say "'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

It comes and goes, just like pretty much any job. Do you love being in nursing school all the time? I am guessing probably not. Don't look to others to validate your career choice. If it comes from inside you rather than from an Internet bulletin board you are going to deal with those ups and downs so much better once you actually become a nurse. This is a safe place for nurses to share with one another the frustrations of a difficult, often thankless job. You are welcome to press your nose against the window until you are on the inside, but try not to get unhappy about what you are then seeing. You are choosing to look. You can let it deflate you or you can let it prepare you for the realities of the choice you have made. Does it suck all the time? Of course not. Does it suck sometimes? Yep, sure does. That's the real life version of nursing.

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OK, I have loved so much of what I have done in this field, the patients and families, the learning, many colleagues, physicians, and others in healthcare.

What I can't stomach is the insanely negative politics. That is what takes a demanding but fulfilling job and sucks the freaking life out of it. On top of that, this kind of thing--negative, toxic politics and games--leads to so much oppression in the field--from other staff to administration.

It's that kind of oppression and needless toxicity that makes nursing intolerable many times. It's not the blood, shite, being overworked, working off shifts, holidays, or weekends. It's the toxicity in the field.

Cure that, and you will have a lot more happy nurses! Good luck with finding a cure.

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Specializes in geriatrics.
I was falling back in love with my job until last month when a patient punched me. Out of the blue punched me. Not drunk, high or demented just plain mean.I'm on workers comp and the husband wants me to leave.
That's terrible Fiona! And not surprising. Nurses deal with a lot of stress some days, in addition to working short staffed, which exacerbates the situation. OP, since you aren't a nurse yet, you're still picturing the ideal scenario. Nursing in reality is very different to what they teach in school. Some days, I love nursing. Other days, I want to run away. No different than other careers. Hopefully, the positives outweigh the negatives.
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I'm a year in and I still absolutely LOVE my job. There are good days and bad days but I have yet to have the whole "Debbie Downer/my job sucks" attitude. I sincerely hope that never changes.

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Specializes in 4.

Your love for nursing will probably depend on your decision to becoming a nurse. I waited nearly 20 yrs to follow my dreams of helping others unselfishly. I was on my own at 18 yrs old & my parents wouldn't co-sign on loans for me to attend a vocational school. I worked as a non certified medical asst at 18 & knew then I wanted to be a nurse. I became an LVN at nearly 40 & although I am not working my dream job yet, I love being a nurse. For me, I waited so long & it is the most suitable profession for me as I love the people I serve. I can do without the nurses who are in it for all the wrong reasons, as they just make my job that much harder. Just as in any job there are bad days but when most of my days are good, then I feel that I am in a good place.

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I can do without the nurses who are in it for all the wrong reasons, as they just make my job that much harder.

^ This, totally this!

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Specializes in geriatrics.

It isn't up to any of us to judge the motives of others. We all have our reasons for choosing to be a nurse. These reasons are varied and personal.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU/Trauma/Emergency.

For nurses who have been working for a while, we have experienced bad days, good days, mediocre days...Life has ups and downs, once you become stagnant( like an EKG) you have flatlined in life.

With that being said, I whole heartedly love what I do. Are there days I wake up and I could chew off every new admit and co-workers head? Of course. Am I always jovial to walk into the facility doors? Hell no! But, I love my career. Would I do this work for free? No!

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