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.

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

The flip side to facility policy that we under no circumstances run short is mandation when there are call offs. I've seen my unit manager literally in tears because she had to pass meds one morning because everyone on nights had already been mandated that week. But I think the risk of being mandated is worth it.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

if it affects patient care..change your career when you get enough money to do so...common sense..

What you'll someday find, if you get through school and pass NCLEX and get a job, is that an individual's love or hate of their job has a lot less to do with patient care than the working conditions that end up making them hate their jobs.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

This is getting to be an awesome thread, but it needs to morph, and some of us know just what kind of super-awesome thread that this one is destined to be, with a little help...

I personally love the banter about who practices medicine, and how those who know best it seems, don't begin to know it at all...

I see Hygiene Queen, Fiona59, imintrouble, are currently reading. These are some of the esteemed members of the group who understands how to do a little hard lesson learn'in for the ill-informed.

Shall we begin, my peeps?

[MA_Davis]

What you'll someday find, if you get through school and pass NCLEX and get a job, is that an individual's love or hate of their job has a lot less to do with patient care than the working conditions that end up making them hate their jobs.

I will make it....and pass my NCLEX and go on to be a APRN...and come back and comment on this same thread. And furthermore understand what your saying but there are people who do let it get in the way of patient care...you may not be one of them and I may not be a nurse. But I have been a patient and I know that I have saw nurses act in that manner and you don't get paid to act like that so they need to suck it up. And I know of many who have been nurses for 40 plus years and wouldn't treat someone any different and still say they had a bad day..that is not what I am saying..I am not talking about the ones who still give good care under stress...and everything else that comes with nursing...I am talking about the ones who don't do their job because they don't like it..just to be clear

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

Just because a nurse hates their job does not mean that the nurse hates nursing.

[MA_Davis]

Have fun with your awesome thread :)

[netglow, ASN, RN]

I've been a nurse for 80 years, and I know nurses who've been nurses for 1000 years.

I have to say that being paid to suck it up is something I have not tried yet. But I hear you can make some decent money... it's an option!

[sydzmommy]

Back to the original topic of this thread, I am a fiercely proud union member, and I will never give an inch of my benefits to management as long as possible.

At my facility we NEVER run short. They MUST pay over time if

necessary to ensure coverage for each and every shift for nurses and aides. Do you think this is because management loves it's workers and the residents so much??

I feel sorry for any nurses who do not work for a government facility and are not in a union.A nation wide nursing union would ensure a decent baseline for working conditions for nurses.

I too am union, working in a teaching hospital. Our tx contract has negotiated us excellent benefits, paid leave, and salary. I am very grateful for this :) my aunt in a np midwife, we have had many conversations about the pitfalls of bedside nursing, and she too, feels strongly that a national union would improve the working conditions for rn's.

Now, if i want to keep my retirement and yrs of service, i must get a bachelors in nursing in order to be eligible for employment as an rn at my university over on the human teaching hospital side(i assume because the are magnet?) . Man is that powerful incentive to maintain my current working relationship!

[MA_Davis]

Just because a nurse hates their job does not mean that the nurse hates nursing.

I agree. As long as their performance is not effected than fine...

[MA_Davis]

I've been a nurse for 80 years, and I know nurses who've been nurses for 1000 years.

I have to say that being paid to suck it up is something I have not tried yet. But I hear you can make some decent money... it's an option!

lol:) I like that

[Hygiene Queen]

I'm still speechless right now :/

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Oh come-on Hygiene, cough it up! I know you got it in ya.