Anybody really love your job?

[ToughLover]

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.

[sdwmb]

several part time/prn jobs 1 acute care small hospital ---hate 12 hour shifts love the patients, staff and is great place to work. 2 home health love it 3 teaching 1st semester students---hate grading care plans, love clinicals

[LadysSolo]

I have been in nursing for 29 years - 23 years as a floor nurse, 6 years as a nurse practitioner. I liked being a staff nurse, but I LOVE being a nurse practitioner. The politics were bad at the hospital, but the care, patients, and co-workers were a plus. Pay and benefits were okay. I have also done agency and been a nurse educator. You just have to find where you are happy, or at least okay with what you are doing. You may just be having a rough patch right now (we all have them - I could write a book about the dumb/difficult/ ridiculous cr*p I have put up with over the years, but no one except another nurse would believe it!)

[Chrissy Lou]

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

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!

Isabelle yes!

I am living in a nightmare of a transition right now, and I so agree!! Our small private owned SNF was bought by a huge corp- coming in to "fix us and our backward ways! Give us money for renovations!" The wisdom of the new admin is amazing- they never took the time to learn about our facility, how things work. (frankly, we did fantastic on our last Survey). They have turned us upside down, taken away the very heart and soul of our building! I love my job, I love my residents- but I hate working for people who make decisions from across the State, waste money on things we don't need and then deny us things that we do need for our patients, talk down to us like we are some kind of "country-bumpkins". Much of this would be solved if they would only take the time to listen and learn!! We have lost several good nurses because of this exact issue. Time on the floor would be awesome! Then they would see how awful their new forms are (all 150- no kidding), how their cheap supplies and damaging our residents skin, how nothing can be "across the board" with regs and rules. Wow. Done venting now.

[aliandre]

I am a RN at a pediatric Level I trauma center in Pittsburgh, PA. I work in the ED and LOVE my job! I started here right out of nursing school and can't imagine working anywhere else. I work with a lot of those miserable people, but I don't let them get me down and neither should you. You wanted to be a nurse for a reason, I'm guessing you want to help people, just remember that you are making a difference and you will be fine.

Good luck to you!

[whodatnurse]

I love Love LOVE my job! I never would have said that about my first career (IT).

I love working in psych. I am NEVER bored.

I love working 8 hour shifts. (I don't think I would ever enjoy doing 12s).

I love being able to go to work, give it my all, and then be able to go home ON TIME and completely not think or worry about work during MY time.

I love having the option to wear jeans to work anytime I want (always as part of an overall neat appearance, of course.)

I love having somewhat decent job security, good benefits, and generous time off.

I love that my co-workers are super professional, and are as passionate about what they do as I am.

The ONLY thing I could say I miss about my old profession is the money I once made. But even if I could easily return to it today, there's no way that I would. Sometimes you have to give something up to get something else back that's even better. I feel much gratitude to have gotten what I have right now.

[DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP]

I LOVE my nursing job! I'm a hospice RN, and split my time between home hospice visits and our inpatient hospice facility.

Our agency is great, MUCH LESS "administrative nonsense" than the hospitals I've worked for. Charting is much simpler and I actually have time to spend with patients on a day to day basis. What a concept!!

Diane, RN