Re: No I wouldn't recommend nursing Originally Posted by jlcole45 
For those out there who are so negative --- IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR JOB OR YOUR CAREER!
By being negative all the time, you do nursing, your co workers, and your patients great disservice. And I don't care about your personal reasons for staying in a job you hate - either suck it up or quit and find another career. We all have a choice.
If you go into work every day hating your job -- don't you think that others can sense that? YES THEY CAN!!!
I am damn sick of chronically negative co workers. Seek out help, get on antidepressants, do something! I don't need your negativity, this job is hard enough without it
Not only does it put a negative spin on my day, it also effects patient care.
We as nurses, have the power to negatively or positively effect our patients out comes. If you walk into a room, don't smile or greet your patient, then handle them roughly, and don't respond as needed - don't your think that could be harmful??? Of course it can.
Just put yourself in their place for one second and maybe you'll get a clue about how your negativity effects others.
It's not a matter of a few bad apples that, when thrown away, will save an essentially healthy barrel full. The dimensions of this thread suggest a broader disease for which those who suffer from it--caregivers and their clients--haven't yet found an effective management strategy, let alone a cure.
Leaving one's position or profession can involve long and complicated decision making processes. Those decisions can affect family and friends in positive, negative, and unintended ways.
Those who are probably in positions where they actually can effect change find little financial incentive to do so.
Our clients, whatever our institutional and personal pathologies, need human beings that can somehow negotiate the health care miasma and still deliver, at least some of the time.
In the real world, we really can't afford to lose the complainers, but you knew that already. Complaining can be a short term emotional fix sometimes. I do worry about the chronic nature of the problems in health care, though. You just happen to pick the complainers as the object of your personal complaint. I suspect you don't feel optimistic about real solutions this side of continued systemic deterioration or you wouldn't need to vent on other nurses. I don't either.
Contentment in any context, especially in refractory situations, has always been an inside job. The nurses who seem able to maintain consistent and real positive attitudes--I'm not one of them yet--seem to accomplish that through means that are mostly unrelated to job conditions, like personal and spiritual fulfillment.
I can still be heard recommending nursing on occasion. Such conversations are always bracketed with a lengthy explanation of conditions.
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