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 CCM, PHN.

Remember, nursing is not all bedside on units in hospitals. This forum seems mostly populated by shift work nurses in hospitals. I did bedside, LTC and clinic nursing for 5 years and HATED nursing. TOTALLY regretted my career choice. Earlier this year I escaped into case management and I'm way happier. I sit in a cubicle all day calling patients and doctors and coordinating care and I don't have to wear scrubs, see patients, get puked on, give shots or clean wounds any more, yipppeeeee! And the pay and benefits are even better. M-F, 9-5. So just remember not all nurses are scrub-wearing, shift-working haters!

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Specializes in cardiology/oncology/MICU.

I love being a nurse. I like the ICU more than I did the floor, but it was fine too. I do not mind working hard, and that seems to be one of the important components to enjoying this career. The people that I hear complain about work and how it is so terrible at my hospital usually seem to be the lazy ones. That is just my observation. I can imagine, however, with the amount of work place bullying that has prompted the civility in nursing push, that some nurses may be miserable because of the way they are treated by their coworkers. I work on a great unit where most people seem to get along. I have a wonderful nurse manager. Nursing is the best career choice I could possibly have made.

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Specializes in cardiac CVRU/ICU/cardiac rehab/case management.

I have to say after 20yrs I still deeply love nursing. As new nurse I decided as a new nurse to explore all of it and to never let fear stop me from learning. I did per diems everywhere in the hospital (with the exception of L&D )The key for me was when I noticed my compassion gauge slipping it usually meant the beginning of burn out or a signal to move to a new area so that I would feel challenged. I have over worked myself where I needed to take a vacation because I didnt recognize the need to care for myself.I learned from it,now without shame I take a mental health day occasionally and come back refreshed. It was not all plain sailing. I learned while I loved and was amazed at the body internally the OR wasn't my best fit. CVRU taught t me you can handle anything if you learn to take it a moment at a time. Mostly I have enjoyed teaching, patients and nursing students as they do their rotations. It saddens me when I hear the phrase "Nurses eat their young "so I have made in.t a personal goal to change that 1 nursing student at a time. Teaching keeps you fresh no matter what area you are in. It shows you where your own gaps in learning are.Nursing is very physical and you can feel worn out but when you stop learning so too goes your joy. I love being a nurse. I feel privileged to be with people at their most vulnerable moments. Every area of nursing has something exciting to learn. Explore all of it. Keep Learning. Be kind.

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Specializes in cardiac CVRU/ICU/cardiac rehab/case management.
I have to say after 20yrs I still deeply love nursing. As new nurse I decided to explore all of it and to never let fear stop me from learning. I did per diems everywhere in the hospital (with the exception of L&D )The key for me was when I noticed my compassion gauge slipping it usually meant the beginning of burn out or a signal to move to a new area so that I would feel challenged. I have over worked myself where I needed to take a vacation because I didnt recognize the need to care for myself.I learned from it,now without shame I take a mental health day occasionally and come back refreshed. It was not all plain sailing. I learned while I loved and was amazed at the body internally the OR wasn't my best fit. CVRU taught me you can handle anything if you learn to take it a moment at a time. Mostly ,I have enjoyed teaching, patients and nursing students as they do their rotations. It saddens me when I hear the phrase "Nurses eat their young "so I have made in.t a personal goal to change that 1 nursing student at a time. Teaching keeps you fresh no matter what area you are in. It shows you where your own gaps in learning are.Nursing is very physical and you can feel worn out but when you stop learning so too goes your joy. I love being a nurse. I feel privileged to be with people at their most vulnerable moments. Every area of nursing has something exciting to learn. Explore all of it. Keep Learning. Be kind.[/QUO

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Well, I don't hate being a nurse, but there are many things that upset me during work. I complain at times, I don't let the rest of the world know it, but I complain to the dog, my mom and sister! If I didn't care about my job then I wouldn't be so upset right?!

I think why you see so many people complaining because this is a place where the nurses of the world congregate. Maybe someone just had a bad day, is burnt out or just needs to vent somewhere where like minded people will understand them. Everyone has their days and so it's natural to see people complain, it's up to the other members of the forum to help listen and offer advice.

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Specializes in ER, PACU, Med-Surg, Hospice, LTC.

Most of the Nurses that I have worked with over the years do not like Nursing at all. Sadly, most are stuck. They can't afford to quit and they cannot afford to return to school. All the facilities where I have worked have had an extremely high turn-over/burn-out rate.The Nurses that loved their jobs were the RNs that had been at a facility forever and not longer had to deal with back-breaking patients, obnoxious families, cattiness of the floor, took plenty of breaks and "meetings" and had an hourly wage even a MD would be envious of.

Personally, I don't feel that the majority of RNs are compensated fairly for all of the extremely hard work that they do. When our local garbage man and city bus drivers make as much as many experienced RNs--you gotta wonder!

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Specializes in LTC, medsurg.

I'm pretty burned out myself. Nursing is the hardest work I've ever seen in my life. Constant running and multi tasking, its ridiculous at times. I wish I had known a little more about nursing before I committed to this career, because I feel stuck too and I'm starting to hate it!!!!! I hate having to kiss up to people here lately! Time for a change here!!!

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Do i enjoy my job?!? 99% of the time i would say not one bit. I love my coworkers, they are my second family. They are what keeps me sane.

I can only think of 2 patients and their families that i got so incredibly close with, they have changed my entire life! (Especially one in particular). ...Ahhhh, what i would give to just to give this family im thinking of one more hug!!! They live in Arizona and i'm in Wisconsin though. I did get a nice comment from the family on those comments/suggestions they always send out. T

he patient's wife wrote:

"I prayed to God that he send us an Angel and i believe our nurse, Jenni was that angel."

It is moments and the thank-yous like this i wish we as nurses had more of, because it is patient's like this that remind me of why i chose nursing.

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I hope you are filing charges against this patient.

I agree!!

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

I truly love being a nurse and am proud to say it. I used to be in a career that I loathed and made a break for nursing. It's not for everyone, but in my case it's what I was meant to do. We may not all love our JOBS but that is the beauty of this career, we have many options to do different things in this profession.

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I think I am really good at being a nurse. Because I can't be a lady who lunches, I have to work. What I find difficult is the politics.But that is true of just about any profession.

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Having worked in retail management and then as a paralegal and now as a nurse soon to be a nurse practitioner, I have to say I love nursing. I wish I had done it my first time around in college like my dad wanted me to. He saw something in me I couldn't see in myself. It wasn't until I met a NP who suggested I go to nursing school that I ever even reconsidered it. I lost her last year very suddenly but her words of wisdom will carry me forever.

"Don't let nursing be your only way you give back to the world or you will lose your fire and passion. It will suck it right out of you because so many are not ready to accept what you have to offer them. Give to someone or something that is ready."

She ran a dog rescue out of her house in her spare time. As for me I am beginning to work with a shelter for victims of sex trafficking. Put passion in all you do but don't give it all in one place or you will surely burn out and be disillusioned. Take your victories big and small and make them the biggest thoughts back on your day.

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