Nursing on worst job list

Moved to the Nursing News forum for more feedback.

Perhaps some of today's nursing students should read this article. Perhaps they'd get their dose of unpretty reality and be more cognizant that the job is truly difficult. It involves certainly more than "caring for people."

Maybe that will free up some spots in nursing school for students who are prepared for those challenges I would feel awful putting thousands of dollars into school, get accepted to nursing school, and realize I couldn't handle it.

I think people should talk more about the realistic edge of nursing, not just "nurses are in demand, get a great career now!" If everyone went into nursing school with unrealistic and naive expectations, that wouldn't help the nursing shortage because those people would probably end up leaving the profession anyway and then we'd be back at square one!