does anyone regret becoming a nurse?

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Hello everyone, hope you are all doing ok and thank you brian for you wonderful website. I am a senoir in high school and will be going to nursing school after i graduate:nurse:. My question is, does anyone regret becoming a nurse? If so, why do you regret this decision.

As I have been a nurse much longer than you have been on this planet, I find your comment disrespectful. Another example of how nursing is not really a profession, when a newbie can insult a veteran!

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Specializes in m/s,tele.

imo It is annoying when students, new grads and newbies tell veterans they need to be positive. It's more important and more helpful to the profession that we see the realities and speak the truth without the sugar coating.

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I have my days!! I'm not Pollyanna and there are those days where I would rather be flippin' burgers or anything else! Most of the time, I do not regret my choice.

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Having you R.N. is NOT a bad thing, it is what you are going to do with it now.

I would start with the career counselors at your alma mater for ideas.There are ,indeed many positive areas you can go into.

Just don't get stuck in a rut, making average money in a position you don't really like. You have a LOT of options, explore!

Pease feel free to private message me, @ least I can tell you what not to do!

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I do regret it, pretty much every day. I left a decent job so I could go to nursing school, graduate & had to relocate to find employment. I risk my license every day with unsafe staffing but being a new grad can't leave until I find soemthing else or gain the magic year of experience. I don't get lunch/dinner breaks, I have way more work than one person can do in a 12 hour shift and I get in trouble for staying late. I dont even have time to pee. I went into nursing to care for the patients, but it is not about the patients at all. It is about spreading the staff as thin as possible and cutting as many corners as possible to make more money. It is all about the money/profit and not at all about the patients. It is NOT AT ALL about the patients. Oh and the nurses take their frustration out on each other. Some of my coworkers are wonderful, while others spend their lives spreading their misery around & cutting each other down.

I am hoping that if I find another job my opinon of nursing will be better, but so far it sucks bigtime.

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Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

I don't know if I already posted in here lol!

I'm a pessimist so I didn't have high expectations for nursing in the first place or a grand idea that it would be so freakin' awesome and I would be doing xyz all the time.

A lot of what we have to put up with SUCKS but I think about how bad it could be....and I haven't gotten to the point where I just DESPISE nursing yet.

It pays the bills so I'll just go with it for as long as I can.

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I do regret it, pretty much every day. I left a decent job so I could go to nursing school, graduate & had to relocate to find employment. I risk my license every day with unsafe staffing but being a new grad can't leave until I find soemthing else or gain the magic year of experience. I don't get lunch/dinner breaks, I have way more work than one person can do in a 12 hour shift and I get in trouble for staying late. I dont even have time to pee. I went into nursing to care for the patients, but it is not about the patients at all. It is about spreading the staff as thin as possible and cutting as many corners as possible to make more money. It is all about the money/profit and not at all about the patients. It is NOT AT ALL about the patients. Oh and the nurses take their frustration out on each other. Some of my coworkers are wonderful, while others spend their lives spreading their misery around & cutting each other down.

I am hoping that if I find another job my opinon of nursing will be better, but so far it sucks bigtime.

Wow! I could have written this! I left a $48,000/year job..EASY desk job..to pursue this..and now I can't find a job to save my life. Some days I want to kick myself. On top of that..I will be lucky to land something that pays $23/hr and has decent hours. I totally regret wasting time on this field, so far, but I am hoping it changes. I have a huge feeling that it is exactly as bad as I think it is, but I am hoping I can at least find some work to tide me over and survive!

I purposely went through a college credited LPN program first and I turned down a RN program so that I could go out and work...get used to it..gain experience..see if it was for me. So far..no luck with job..and I was really disenchanted when I saw how much crap RNs put up with. Thought maybe it was just my facility. I refuse to live in denial though..if things don't get better, I'm outta here..nursing can kiss me where the sun don't shine! lol. I must be happy and make money..either way ;)

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I also regret becoming an LPN, should have went right away for RN. So many more opportunities, and much more respect.

If I knew then, what I know now though, that healthcare is primarily just run like a business (instead of doing the very best thing by the patients) I would have become an auto mechanic! (serious)

Why do people regret becoming LPNs? I totally don't regret it at all. Unlike many RNs that I know, I didn't waste countless years in school and take on a massive amount of tuition debt just to find out that there are hardly any nursing jobs out there. I feel a little lucky to have taken this route. I spent a year to earn my LPN certificate and once I land a job (hopefully) I can get a feel for it and see if it's really as crappy as I'm thinking it is. I'm awesome at science and love taking care of patients, but I won't be stuck in a field that I'm miserable in. Hoping I won't be...hoping.

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Why do people regret becoming LPNs? I totally don't regret it at all. Unlike many RNs that I know, I didn't waste countless years in school and take on a massive amount of tuition debt just to find out that there are hardly any nursing jobs out there. I feel a little lucky to have taken this route. I spent a year to earn my LPN certificate and once I land a job (hopefully) I can get a feel for it and see if it's really as crappy as I'm thinking it is. I'm awesome at science and love taking care of patients, but I won't be stuck in a field that I'm miserable in. Hoping I won't be...hoping.

Most people that I've heard say they regret it, mainly do because there are much fewer LPN jobs out there than there are RN jobs. Most LPN jobs are being phased out of hospitals, leaving mainly just nursing homes.

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Most people that I've heard say they regret it, mainly do because there are much fewer LPN jobs out there than there are RN jobs. Most LPN jobs are being phased out of hospitals, leaving mainly just nursing homes.

I can understand that..but every RN that I know it's facing similar stresses that I, as a LPN, am facing. Nursing is being outsourced period--in the sense that we have medical tech, pharm tech, PCA, phleb techs, etc. Employers will do anything they can to get cheaper labor.

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I can understand that..but every RN that I know it's facing similar stresses that I, as a LPN, am facing. Nursing is being outsourced period--in the sense that we have medical tech, pharm tech, PCA, phleb techs, etc. Employers will do anything they can to get cheaper labor.

Actually, some facilities are getting rid of PCAs and phlebotomists and having the RNs do everything related to pt care. Of course they won't get paid more to do twice the work.

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Actually, some facilities are getting rid of PCAs and phlebotomists and having the RNs do everything related to pt care. Of course they won't get paid more to do twice the work.

Haven't seen that anywhere. Maybe it's happening where you're at, but certainly not in my neck of the woods. Even with all these little tech jobs outsourcing the work RNs *would* be doing, the RNs are still carrying an insane workload..so sad.

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