Any nurses that love nursing and love their job??

[nets5010]

I start nursing school in the fall and have gotten a lot of negative feedback from nurses I work with who are really miserable as a nurse. Some are very encouraging, but most have told me to turn around now while I have the chance. Even the ones that say they like nursing usually only like it for the schedule flexibility and the money they make.

I am just wondering if there is anyone out there that absolutely loves nursing and loves their job? I don't plan on changing my path...I guess I am just looking for some positive reinforcement that I am making the right decision and that there are actually nurses out there than truly enjoy what they do. Thanks in advance!

[nets5010]

6 hours ago, Dragonnurse1 said:

I loved my nursing job. When I began school my intention was to work in the ER. I achieved that goal despite so many instructors wanting me to go into VA psych. Nursing was a "second job". I was older, had been in computers but I had always been the "family nurse" for too many years to count.

I knew when my kids had broken bones even when their pediatrician did not want to do an X-ray, I knew when ears were infected, wounds were questionable and so on.

I knew when a man in a hardware store was having a "heart attack" years before nursing school so I finally went. I decided on day one to go into the ER. In fact I started Nursing school 20 years after high school.

I loved that job every night no matter what came in or what occurred. The losses made the wins more sweet. The 13yo that looked so much like my son, discharged too soon from another hospital, whose chest we cracked but we still lost - I kept my son home that day. The 50ish brother and sister whose Mother was brought in from a nursing home at end of life, who wanted to make her a DNR and needed someone to walk them through the process. The residents were untrained in the nuances of how to talk to the family. The woman that came in who had been seen the night before at another ER (by the same Doc) complaining about chest pain. The Doc went in and told her she could NOT be having a cardiac problem and wanted her discharged but the other nurse and I had already started the Cardiac Protocol. She was having an MI. She went to the Cath lab that night and lived. The ER Doc told her the we saved her life. The little old lady that walked in with an O2 sat of 46 on room air, we got her admitted and administered levophed, she went home a few days later. The little things, the little wins became more important.

I would have been there still if not for the Anaphylactic Reactions to latex. I was 40 when I started working and not quite 50 when I had to quit. I miss my job still.

Dang...you are amazing!