Anybody really love your job?

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So I am a new RN and am ridiculously surprised by how many RNs hate their job! What I've seen is that hospital management is so incompetent and disorganized and that's the main reason why most of the people I work with hate it. They all love their coworkers but the hospital politics are awful. I am just curious if this is something I'll always have to deal with or if there are some of you out there that have an awesome job that you love. Whether it's in a great hospital or in a completely different area, I'd love to hear about it! I'd just like to know that there is hope out there for me and some other opportunities besides hospital nursing.

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
New grad, one year out, Level III NICU....LOVE my job! :redbeathe

Exact same story for me.

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I love my job. It helps to work nights; you don't get as exposed to the hospital wide politics and ridiculous activities (such as, Come to the atrium now to watch our CEO and administrators play guitar hero for charity! Give me an effing break :barf01:).

I really do love my job, and I love or like all my coworkers. There isn't anyone I despise or with whom I hate to work.

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Specializes in Home Health.
"So I am a new RN and am ridiculously surprised by how many RNs hate their job! What I've seen is that hospital management is so incompetent and disorganized and that's the main reason why most of the people I work with hate it"

As part of hospital management, I take great exception to your comment.:mad: What many nurses who work in hospitals fail to realize that it is a business which does not always allow for management to do whatever it is staff wants done. Secondly, you are a new RN and it is your perception that your coworkers hate their jobs, ask them this, would they be happy in another field and do they not think that politics are in every industry.

With that said, I actually LOVE my job. Are there days I'm not in love with it yes but since becoming a nurse twenty years ago I can honestly say I never hated my job. I love my patients and feel that I have and still make a difference in their lives. I influence the new generation of nurses just as much as they influence me.

Please take a moment and reflect on politics. Are you going to be one of those nurses who complain about things or are you going to be one that help facilitate change?:idea:

Kayern, how many hours a week are you involved in direct patient care, as a floor nurse?

I would like to see the State Boards make it a requirement that all nurses in management, non-direct care jobs be required to work 60 hours a year in direct hands on patient care. I think many forgot what it takes, and no longer have respect for those who are getting the job done. I would burn my license before I went back to work for a hospital. I practice the art of nursing, not the business of health care.

Isabelle

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I'm a new med-surg nurse and getting ready to go off of orientation this week. I work at a smallish community hospital. I had clinicals, precepting, and shadowing at two large teaching hospitals as well as clinicals and working as an NA while in nursing school at the community hospital I'm now working for as an RN. After spending 96 hours of precepting at the large teaching hospital I wouldn't want to work there. The atmosphere was toxic with gossip and employee discontent (not to mention turnover). Employees were treated like numbers instead of people. I love my job at the community hospital. But then I have an exceptional floor manager. Our Senior Exec makes it a point of coming up to our floor to tell us what a wonderful job we're doing. Once he asked what "fueled" us and the unit secretary answered "chocolate". He had his wife make two of the most decadent chocolate cakes for our floor within less than a week; one for day shift and one for night shift. Other than the part of being a new nurse with the whole overwhelming learning the ropes part, I love my job. I also realize how tenuous that sort of set up is. All that has to change is one person in the whole chain of command and it could all be much less pleasant. To make me even happier, my starting pay is exactly the same as it would have been at one of the large impersonal teaching hospitals and my orientation was much longer and more thorough than what I've heard I would have gotten at one of them. I'm sure eventually I'll find something to dislike about my job, but right now I'm very happy with the career I've chosen.

Is it allowed on here to tell what hospital you work at? It sounds like a wonderful place to be!

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Specializes in Ltc, Hospice, Spinal Cord.
Kayern, how many hours a week are you involved in direct patient care, as a floor nurse? I would like to see the State Boards make it a requirement that all nurses in management, non-direct care jobs be required to work 60 hours a year in direct hands on patient care.

Isabelle... I could not agree more!!! :yeah:

My experience thus far is that management is so far removed from that actual work of nursing they can no longer relate to the staff they manage. I'm working for a manager now that doesn't have a clue what we do and makes no attempt so find out. It should, at a minimum, be a requirement to know the responsibitlites of the staff on your unit.

Oooo you touched a nerve with me on this one! :mad:

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Specializes in ER.
Yes, all hospital administration is disorganized and incompetent. It is amazing that any of them survive and actually provide care. What is even more amazing is that those geniuses with little to no experience, but who somehow magically know everything, don't start their own hospitals and fix these problems. OP, when are you planning on starting up the perfect hospital?

reeks of bad attitude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Careful, that's contagious.

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Specializes in ER.

as far as my co-workers? a week ago my shift all met for lunch and spent 2 hours laughing our heads off. one of them i call "one of my most favorite people in the world", lol

lucky. :up: i want that!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I LOVE everything about my job.

I Love my co-workers, I love the charting, I love precepting, I love the vast majority of my patients, I love working nights, I love my boss, love the hospital I work for. There are a few things that I would change, but Love the fact that I have been given the opportunities and abilities to be and make the changes I want to see.

Been working Med-Surg for 2 years and loving it.

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Thanks for all your replies, it gives me hope that one day I will find a job that fits me better and that I will love too. :) And yeah, I'm curious too, is it possible to name specific hospitals on here? Because i'd love to come work at some of the places you've named! They sound wonderful!

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

:redbeathe Take heart... I'm a night shift ER nurse, and I LOVE my job! I've loved it (almost) from the beginning! There are always moments when we get frustrated, but I really do love the job. :-)

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I do. However, I work at a Unviersity doing research and I am the only nurse in the departmwnt. A dream job. I know it won't last forever, but I love it while I have it.

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Actually, I love my job. I have been a RN for 16 years. I have done almost everything nursing has to offer and now I am the owner and creator of my own healthcare software as well as a consulting business. Nevertheless, I have already answered your main question. I love nursing. Secondly, I have learned that many do not understand all of the angles that management has to view when making decisions. As a floor nurse you only see the good or bad it creates in your small piece. Until you have been the decision maker with the responsibility to know all implications of your decisions you cannot state whether or not they know how to do their job. Much like a teenager that gets mad at mom or dad because you make a decision that they don't like. They don't realize all of the pieces of the puzzle you put together to make that decision, but it was the right decision whether or not they know it was. Just a small insight to your thought process. I have been a member of this site for many, many years and have only responded maybe 2 or 3 times. It seems to me that many individuals that use this site are young nurses that do not have the experience to see the whole picture related to health care. That is not a bad thing except that the individuals responding are giving inexperienced advice. We need you young nurses, and I hope that you all find a way to enjoy your jobs, because our friends, neighbors, family and ourselves need someone to take care of us when we are ill. Best of Luck to you all and the nursing profession is a wonderful way to give back to people in need and make a living. Gloria

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