Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

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Hi everyone. Please respond and offer feedback on whether you are ashamed of or embarrassed about being a nurse; becoming a nurse; or considering nursing as a career. If you are ashamed or embarrassed, why? If not, why not?

I heard a commentator on the radio the other day say unless your making one hundred thousand a year by the time your fourty then you've made some bad career choices "unless your a teacher or a nurse" Proud....yes, but 100 thousand a year would make me a whole lot prouder!do you think there would be ANY shortage of nurses if we were all to get a check for 100 thousands dollars on our fourtieth birthday?!

I TOO, AM PROUD TO BE A NURSE. IF I AM EVER ASHAMED OF WHAT I DO I HOPE I WOULD HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO FIND ANOTHER PROFESSION. IF YOU LOOSE THE PASSION FOR WHAT YOU DO THEN YOU WILL NOT DO IT WELL. THE PEOPLE WE TAKE CARE OF AND TRUST US EACH DAY WITH DELIVERING THEIR MEDICAL DESERVE OUR BEST AND GIVING ANY LESS IS NOT RIGHT. DO I GO HOME AT NIGHT AND FEEL I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I WANTED TO DO FOR MY PATIENTS? PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH TIME OR HANDS IN A DAY, BUT I DO GO HOME FEELING THAT I HAVE DONE THE VERY BEST THAT I COULD DO FOR THE TIME I WAS THERE. I CAN'T IMAGINE ANY NURSE WHO IS STILL PRACTICING HER/HIS PROFESSION BEING ASHAMED OF IT. IF YOU ARE PLEASEE, PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE ANOTHER PROFESSION!!!

I have never been ashamed of being a nurse. Occasionally I am disappointed of other nurses behaviors and judgements.

I wouldn't continue to be a nurse if it were something I was ashamed of. Fortunately, it is a calling that serves me well as well as helping others; add that 100K salary, and who could ask for more?

RNcountry hit the nail fairly well i'd say. Even though i am not yet an RN i only have two semesters to go and i am proud when i say i am a student nurse.

The management issue opens a whole other can of worms. Nusing supervisors get away with placing undo demands on the staff because the nurse has let management take away their voice. Ask around at work and see who is a member ot the ANA. Then ask every Dr you know if he/she is a member of the AMA. I did a research project on it and you'll be amazed, then you'll see it's no wonder the establishment gets away with pushing nurses around. As far as i am able to discern, nurses eat their young, don't form a cohesive force to be respected and don't seem interested in issues that directly effect them. I haven't graduated yet and i have already decided that i need to get a graduate degree and specialize so i can be part of a group that is concerned with its well being and sticks together.

Mac

Finally, lots of positive reponses, even from some of the other members, with MAJOR negative reponse's.

I understand why MIJOURNEY, asked the question............

Makes me feel better about getting into the field.

Pete

Miami

Specializes in Oncology/ante/post Partum.

Very very proud to be a nurse. Despite all my complaining, b***hing and whining; I am proud of all the TLC we give, I am proud of us when we are working together, helping each other to help the patient, laughing and crying together. Thanks for your question, and for your post Country RN. Roberto, you need an attitude adjustment or a different profession, Good Luck.:) :) :D

Specializes in ER.

I am frequently ashamed of being associated with a lot of coworkers because of a lack of accountability they show in their practise, and of the profession because of our inability to get together on the simplest topics.

I love my job though, and would never leave. I am proud of what I see as my vision for nursing and my practise reflects that accountability. I also think that those that think they have a "vision" need to practise it, making nursing an even more respectable profession, and letting the newbies know there are brains and professionalism working behind the scut work.

I proud of be a nurse.but being a nurse for 16 years.I get very tied.I can not bear the shift and overwork.I will chang it if have a chance.

Ashamed of being a nurse :eek:? Definietely not. As I have shared before I would not choose this profession again, and I am not always particularily proud of the job I have done. Shame has never been an emotion I associate with nursing. Why would caring, compassion, intelligence, hard work, perseverence (supply your own discriptive words) be cause for shame?? I like others have stated don't understand where this question is coming from.

I am very proud of being a nurse. That is all I ever wanted to be. I help people, I care for people, I help them physically, mentally, and spirtually. I am ashamed that nurse are push around, walked on, and expected to jump at managements every word. If it was not for us they would not have a leg to stand on.:p

I have never been shamed as beening a nurse.but beening a nurse for 16 years,I think it is too much time on it.I want to accept a new challenge.I have never choose nurse beening my occupation since my childhood,but why I am a nurse now?perhaps this is a fortune.

good luck

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