I need some positive vibes(pre nursing student)

[dnllprtt]

So, I am getting closer and closer to finishing my pre-reqs in Nursing. Not sure yet when I will be applying to my university of choice, but by the way it looks maybe Fall 2016 or Spring 2017. Anyways, I work at a hospital as a patient transporter, I recently transferred to a more popular medical center in my area(Novant Medical Center, if anyone is in the Charlotte-Metro area.) So I am seeing a WHOLE lot more things Nursing wise at this medical center and it scares me honestly. I love everything about medicine and the human anatomy. I love to make people happy and care for them, but there is a thing that I am having a hard time with and I witness it about every week while working... Family members. Not all the time I will get one family that I just want to smash my head into a wall and never take it out, and I am not even in nursing school yet! So I can only imagine how that will be! I have met some awesome nurses who are very sweet and caring, but I have met some who honestly make me want to reconsider this career. I know it sound silly but I am a caring person, I will do ANYTHING to make you or them happy regardless of the situation. So I need some positive vibes to put me back on the track and get me out of this funk I have been in for a while. I have patience for people but lately that also has been thin... And I don't like how EVERYTHING now seems to (can't say the curse word), but irritate me. I just need some advice on stress on how to manage it better or even positive vibes. Thank you those who are reading it!

-Danielle

[Miss Infermiera2b, BSN, RN]

The families of your patients will frequently be a challenge, especially because you are often seeing them in situations where they are worried and out of sorts. I'm just a medical scribe in the ED, but I often have relatives of patients causing issues for the physicians I work with and me.

My advice is to have a moment of introspection and decide whether or not you think it is worth the trouble. If not, you can still have a job in healthcare that doesn't necessarily have as much contact with families of patients. If you decide that it is still worth it to you, accept it as part of the job and remember the good you are doing for the patients regardless of the challenge presented.

[windsurfer8, BSN, RN]

It is not a simple job and that is why we RNs make more money. A lot of people simply cannot handle it. If you want to "smash your head into a wall" from being a transporter you may want to consider a different career. Making people "happy" is not really what a nurses job entails. I have rarely seen a patient "happy" when doing a bowel prep all night. However the task must be completed.

[Golfer87]

Don't worry about it. Coworkers and supervisors can be just like troublesome customers across all career spectrums.

[dnllprtt]

Yes... OK I should've said it a different way I know making patients happy won't work all the time as a nurse. I'm not even in nursing school yet so I was just ranting. I'm aware of some of the reasons of being a nurse to help the patients, cure them, can inform them and yes that's only few of what nursing actually is, but I'm just saying.