No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

[RNGriffin]

One thing that has baffled me on this website is individuals always are up in arms when the truth is, if you have no passion for the profession you need to make life decisions for yourself. Most individuals come on allnurses.com to complain about the nursing profession, long hours, nursing staff, arrogant doctors. The truth is, this is not Mcdonalds where you work the job because it's a requirement for survival. You entered into college and chose a profession that makes you miserable, spent countless hours studying a subject that you have no interest in, and entered the work field to make others who are passionate about their careers miserable. Yet, many complain that the healthcare field has taken a turn for the worse. Has it ever occurred to those same individuals, if there was no passion for the career to begin with there would be none after starting your first, second, third, or even tenth position?

Maybe it's my family values that taught me, if I don't love what I do there is no way I will ever be successful in life. Success is not defined by the basic salary, but level of contentment with my life all together.

So I say, if you hate nursing make life decisions so the rest of us can enjoy our jobs.

[MA_Davis]

I hope to be a great Nurse one day as well..I have it in me..drive ...But I am a MA and my teacher who taught me was a RN,and NP. She also has cancer and still works..teaches classes....and doesn't complain nearly as much as I have heard of some people on here and she's on Double Chemo...she also was a Flight Nurse...this woman is my idol and a perfect example of a nurse who loved what she does...for 40 years..

Nobody is saying HEY quit your nursing job because you dont love it! lol just saying give something else a try when you can so you won't be so unhappy...because it's not good for the patients...

[beeker]

Sometimes people have life experience that redirects their passion. You never know what people have going on at home nless you walk a mile in their shoe. I am wondering why you need people to leave so you can enjoy your job? Anywhere you are going to encounter miserable people, all YOU can change is how you react to them. I would suggest working on that. Rather than wanting people to leave so you can enjoy your job, why don't you work on enjoying your job regardless.

[MA_Davis]

Regardless of what someone has going on when you get to that door that should be gone...Like I said I know a nurse Double Chemo and all and she's still working without complaining...the patients don't ask for you to bring your personal problems into their situations they are there for care not to care about you!

[MA_Davis]

oh and beeker i love my job and will always regardless of people....it's just patients they don't deserve that...

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

I see the ones who see nursing as a passion (thru rose-colored glasses) aren't even nurses in the real world yet.

[MA_Davis]

I am passionate and always will be...period..regardless of the situation..so speak for yourself when you say you don't have passion for nursing. No one can tell me what I am passionate about and the level of passion I will have once I get where I am going. Only I would know that...and I am definitely not one of those people that think everything is glitter and gold..You can ask me years from now and I'll say the same thing...Some people find out later on it's not what they wanted...I've wanted this since I was little..not just because I gotta pay bills big difference

[sydzmommy]

I see the ones who see nursing as a passion (thru rose-colored glasses) aren't even nurses in the real world yet.

Well, maybe not nursing but medicine in general. If you brought your dog to my icu, i would deliver the same standard of care expected of an rn in a sicu or micu. No rose colored glasses here, you are absolutely correct, won't know until i am caring for the human-y types on the floor. But i would hope the red tape, the politics, the "for profit" mentality won't kill my fundamental love for medicine, or the drive to educate myself.

I think ill keep my RVT licensure as well as RN (assuming i make it!) just in case

[nursel56]

To the OP - If you were talking about people you work with on the job, you'd have a point. You do have a choice about what threads you read, and it's quite a leap to assume that what you perceive about a person via an online message board reflects who they are in the real world.

[nursel56]

I hope to be a great Nurse one day as well..I have it in me..drive ...But I am a MA and my teacher who taught me was a RN,and NP. She also has cancer and still works..teaches classes....and doesn't complain nearly as much as I have heard of some people on here and she's on Double Chemo...she also was a Flight Nurse...this woman is my idol and a perfect example of a nurse who loved what she does...for 40 years.

There are people here who love to complain about their jobs who are on chemo, too. If you don't like what you read, the answer is not to stifle other people from expressing themselves. Don't read them. There are lots of positivity threads here for you.. . and a functional ignore button so you won't even need to see posts from people who offend you.

[beeker]

Well, maybe not nursing but medicine in general. If you brought your dog to my icu, i would deliver the same standard of care expected of an rn in a sicu or micu. No rose colored glasses here, you are absolutely correct, won't know until i am caring for the human-y types on the floor. But i would hope the red tape, the politics, the "for profit" mentality won't kill my fundamental love for medicine, or the drive to educate myself. I think ill keep my RVT licensure as well as RN (assuming i make it!) just in case

. I think working with animals is harder, I could never do it. You can't explain to them that you are trying to help, you can't ask them what happened or what is bothering them, and you really have to gain their trust while trying to draw blood and such. I also know I could not handle the heartbreak. My hats off to you.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

There is a lot of abuse in nursing. Some people must publicly crucify themselves and tell people that they actually believe they are worthy over others of being crucified, eg. Abuse begets abuse. Psychologically they are also unable to porifice this abuse as it happens to them, so one way of dealing is to say that it's not abuse and that they are not victims of anything of the kind, and are actually of a higher conscience than other members of the profession in that they are able to consciously continue and actually invite abuse because it's a requirement of the job - it's in the manual, and they know they can deliver.

It's called GASLIGHTING oneself, actually.

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

As long as a nurse is competent at their job, why on earth would anyone care if they are in it because of a "calling" or because they just want a decent job.

I am not ashamed to admit I became a nurse because I live in Michigan, and a well paying job with security is hard to come by.

I've seen plenty of 2nd career former factory or construction workers who are way WAY more competent than some of the "Florence Nightengale Syndrome" nurses out there.