Re: Am I crazy to be a nurse considering the AF?
I imagine that the AF hospitals will be similar to the ones that you were in during nursing school. I am a new nurse too without any nursing experience. I was very good friends with 2 girls that were in my nursing class that worked in nursing homes/LTC/geriatrics. I would have hated having to do what they and the RNs had to do.
I think everyone will have those 'bad days' no matter where you are. We are all human... I have had many families angry with me for doing little things wrong, like pushing 2mg of morphine too fast, or letting a patients humidified oxygen slip off their tracheostomy for a while (luckily it was like 20% O2, so not much different than room air). Everyone makes mistakes no matter where they are. The people that do the most for the community are underpaid, imo just because of the psychological intricacies of the whole mess that is nursing. Developing a thick skin it feels is part of the job but don't ever let that skin get so think that you become cold hearted or stubbornly ignorant like I have found some nurses become.
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