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 Critical Care.

Soon you will be able to find out for yourself what nursing is all about ... or you still have time to make a different choice! There are other jobs in the medical field that might be more enjoyable and less stressful, ultrasound tech comes to mind.

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Specializes in LTC.

Yesterday I hated bein a nurse.

Today I like it.

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Specializes in IV; CPR; Med Surg; clinical.

Maybe we could learn somehow to an ingredient in the cure :) just a thought!

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Specializes in Orthopaedic Nursing; Geriatrics.

I have loved being a nurse for almost 40 years now. Seriously. I can remember one horrible day in the OR where I was ready to give up, but felt better the next day.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Home Health, LTC.

I love patient care! and some nurses and other staff as well.:-)

The hard part -it is oppressive and money profit is bottom line.

working in non profit or church owned places tend to have better environment, more staff, more love of people.

There is always missionary or organizational ( Dr Without Borders) work, actually those are mostly volunteer. There are many fields

less stressful more rewarding and this is a good thing about nursing,,,,your options.

If you are doing it for the salary, that is illusion.

If you are doing it because there is so much job opportunity...this too can be called a fading illusion. If you are doing it for the caring of others and you find a place that supports this, you will be content. best to you all!

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Love my job, of course we all have bad days. Like any job. If you and your classmates are re-thinking your career choice in college due to what you are reading here, I bet if you went on any message board for just about any occupation and there would be good and bad.

Any occupation takes a skill set, applying what you learn in college to the job at hand, and maturity and patience to see it through.

If you are just starting college, then you could change your mind about your major more than a few times--it is not unheard of. But anyone should weigh the pros and cons of whatever you choose. And it is OK to say nursing is not for you should the thought of having less than stellar days is not within your goals. But life itself has less than stellar days regardless. So part of college experience should be to try and look for ways for yourself to be independent, to make good choices and decisions, and to apply them in your life. Then be a nurse or not, but the world outside your career will be full and satisfying that attitude and skill set will reflect onto your career, and be happy in the thought that you are an independent thinker who can do for themselves.

Good luck in whatever you decide.

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Specializes in LTC and School Health.

I have a love hate relationship with nursing. I love caring for my patients and family but dislike the politics and drama, and increased workload on nurses.

I'm confident that one day I will find my niche, I may have already found it but it just hasn't hit me yet. Only time will tell.

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Specializes in geriatrics.

I feel the same. I'm very interested in the clinical aspect of nursing, and helping others. I don't enjoy the extended shifts, overtime, understaffing, endless forms, and politics. I will eventually work only as much as I need to and pursue other interests.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

Like most nurses, I also have the proverbial "love/hate" relationship with my profession. I love taking care of and interacting with people, but I hate being talked down to/yelled at by doctors because I have to call them in the middle of the night, having to take an admission when I'm already drowning in unfinished tasks, and having more and more Press Ganey stuff dumped on our already short-staffed staff. However...that said, I think that a lot of us take for granted what we do have in nursing. Our pay is definitely above average as compared to a lot of other professions. I work for the internal agency of a large hospital system and if I wanted to work three twelve hour shifts a week, I would make just about $70,000 a year (although this position doesn't offer benefits but my husband has us covered), and I don't even have my BSN. How many people would love to have four days a week off and still make that kind of money?

It really puts it into perspective when you see someone, as I did yesterday, collecting the shopping carts in the parking lot at Kroger, and you know that she is probably making minimum wage to do a job that is very physically demanding and exposes her to the elements year round, not to mention she probably gets about zero respect from her managers and the customers that she serves.

Nursing is darned hard, but we are still extremely blessed in the larger scheme of things!

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Also keep in mind..... this is a forum for nurses to vent so sometimes you see the worst!

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Specializes in Hospice, ONC, Tele, Med Surg, Endo/Output.

I must admit, i never truly enjoyed being a nurse until i became a hospice pool/on call nurse; and that is mainly because i usually do not have to interact with co-workers and management because i am in my car all day. Also, we have the hospice doctor's cell phone numbers so they are easy to reach for patient's changes, med requests, etc... Other jobs i enjoyed were endoscopy and outpatient surgery because i only had a few co-workers and management usually wasn't around. The problem was, lots of low census, so you use up your pto, so like an idio,t and out of desperation, i walked into a hospital one day and applied for a job---BIG MISTAKE!! Well, I "paid my dues" working in med-surg/tele far too long--16 years before i discovered hospice nursing. I can honestly say that i absolutely HATED acute care hospital work--not because of the patients, but because of being in constant conflict with management and working with other nurses and assistive staff who were lazy, back-stabbing jerks. Now i can actually enjoy being a nurse again because i never have to care about lazy staff, and management only calls me into the office for a rare meeting or when my TB skin test needs to be done or my car insurance card needs to be turned in. Also, families get you in a lot less trouble with management in hospice. I am rarely written up in this job. I love having a low drama life. I'll take boring and repetitive work over the drama and frustration of a hospital job any day of the week.

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I have to say that I truly hate nursing. I don't mean to post negatively to discourage others from becoming a nurse, but I think it probably comes off that way. I certainly think if you want to do it, you should.

I just feel like I'm fighting a losing battle all day, every day. I'm incredibly tired all the time. And the worst part is, I don't feel like myself anymore.

That said, I know tons of nurses who love their jobs. Maybe it's just not a good fit for me, or maybe I'm in the wrong area... Good luck to the future nurses though, you'll never know until you try it.

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