Any nurses that don't regret becoming a nurse?

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I have been reading a lot of negative discussions about the nursing field and I must admit, I've considered changing my career path. Problem is, I can't see myself doing anything else. Please tell me that there are nurses out there that like their job!

I love what I do. It's been such an interesting path for me but nursing has somehow always come through with an opportunity that fit the need and proclivity at every turn. I haven't worked for a hospital for years, but I have always been a nurse and use my background every working day. Attorneys hire me precisely because I am a nurse, and they do respect it.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I LOVE begin a nurse....I have been one since I was 18 years old....I am 50 mumble, mumble....but it is not for the faint of heart.

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Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.

Thank you to every person who is responding to this thread.

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Everyone needs to vent whatever their job may be. I'm not talking about the nurses who vent. I had read posts from nurses who have actually said they regret becoming a nurse and are absolutely miserable.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

Me me me me !!!! OK OP, you have to keep in mind many of us come here to VENT... So you will read more about the negative then the positive sides of nursing...

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Specializes in Addictions/Mental Health, Telemetry.

I have never once ever regretted becoming a nurse. I came to nursing as a second career in my 40's too! My only regret is that I had been smart enough to have entered nursing as a younger woman. My career path may have been the same....I'm now working on my MSN in nursing education and also want to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner...but I would be so much farther into my career than I am now! I love nursing!

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I have at times regretted becoming a nurse..but it has been for brief moments when work has been hectic for what seems days on end.

In the end, I know it's part of who I am. I cannot imagine doing any thing else. and believe me, I have tried to imagine! LOL. Nursing is always there....always a way to provide for my family , and gives me some happiness along the way too!

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

I've been a nurse since 2006, own my own home healthcare and don't regret my career decision one bit.

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

I'm not sure there's anything else I would want to do... unless I could work with animals. Which is the same as caring in for others in general. :-)

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

My only regret about nursing is that I didn't go into it sooner: I could have been a nurse during the economy's glory years, instead of being a new grad right when the job market for nurses started tanking.

Then again, I also believe everything happens for a reason...and perhaps becoming a nurse when I did is what was meant to be.

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I'm 26 years in to being an LPN and I still love what I do! Now if you ask me if I enjoyed my day today at work, oh heck no! but not every day is bad and it's worth it when you see someone out in the community months after you thought they were a goner and they're doing well. Or someone comes up to you and says you were always my favorite nurse, or when I felt so bad, you really helped me to feel better. I was born to be a nurse and can't imagine anything else. Btw, to anyone who thinks they are too old to go back to school, I'm 46 and have finished up my pre-reqs for RN school and am just waiting to see if I will be in the accelerated class that starts in Jan 2014!

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Love it! But I'm an adrenaline junkie

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