Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

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hello i am currently in nursing school and the weirdest thing is how future nurses talk about how they are going to be getting paid!! it's as if caring is not involved in their frame of mind, this type of mentality is not going to help the nursing shortage it's only going to aide it because as we know we do not get paid for our actual services, but this younger generation feel since it is a shortage this is the field to go and make some quick money, so i'm curious and please be honest what are you in it for, caring or cash?

After close introspection I realize I am into nursing because of the control(I guess I am a control freak). What other job can you control someone elses pain, I can control their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, I can make them pee or not to pee, I can help them to live or I can do nothing and watch them die. Nursing is a very powerful job.

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Specializes in long term care (LTC).

Any job profession that promises great benefits, financial stability, and numerous opportunities is worth dedicating your life to and worth fighting to keep the job. Not to mention nursing is a noble profession aiding in patient recovery where you directly impact the health and lives of many, not too many jobs are as fullfilling as that.

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I'm in it for both...

I care about my pts and its a huge part of my job choice as well as my personality, but I wouldn't do what I do (including the burden of the legal responsibilities) for $8 an hour...and I do feel nurses are STILL underpaid...

However, I could make just as much money in other feilds besides nursing without having to put up with half of the things I do, so it's not as if I am doing it solely for the money either.

I think it is so disrespectful to even ask this question...it's a loaded question with a preconceived bias based on what one's answer is

Again...you said it better than I could...but yes this.

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If you are in it for the cash then get out! Simple as that as far as I am concerned.

Do you accept a paycheck?

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Specializes in ICU-Stepdown.
If you are in it for the cash then get out! Simple as that as far as I am concerned.

If you are in it just to be a martyre, get out. For THEY are the ones that keep the pay down, and the conditions harsh. Those kinds of people feed on that crap. Unless we demand improvement, we will never get it! :)

Sorry, but your divisiveness just won't serve anything. Think about it for just a few mins -if someone is really only doing this for the bread -I mean HONESTLY only doing it for that reason alone, they will likely burn out rather quickly or they won't be at the bedside for long (anyway). The pay just doesn't equal the realities of the job. Maybe if you worked on a floor where all you did was the equivalent of hotel-work (pass meds, write paperwork, no contact beyond that) I guess you could do it -but certainly not in the environments that most of us seem to work in.

Personally, I have absolutely NO use for martyres, though. For exactly the reasons listed. Employers love them, because they thrive on misery. I love doing what I do, and I enjoy getting compensated for it too. Certainly there cant be anything wrong with that?

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I didn't get into this to get rich. That won't happen. I'm into it totally for my residents. Making them happy and comfortable compensates for the very low pay.

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I would not be in nursing if it was for the money only. We are very UNDER paid for what we do and the responsiblities too! Yes, there is alway extra $$ out there for us to make extra/perks! But, my #1 passion is for the patient and there well being! That's the reward to me!

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I think that nursing should be a separate charge on a patients bill..instead of getting paid by the hour we should get paid by the task. Then the public as well as ourselves would know our true worth. How much would someone pay to be put on a bedpan or cleaned and taken off, how much should an IV insertion cost. Doctors get paid by the procedures they do , why shouldn't nurses? I realize that as long as our jobs are tied to the hospitals then we will never be paid what we are truly worth nor know exactly what our value is. What if nurses functioned liked doctors and we were truly our own profession..not tied to to any institution.

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Urgent Care.

Show me the moneeeeeeyyyyy! im in it for the money, and job flexibility. I'm not sure what branch of nursing im going to go in to.

Peace,

j:lol2:

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As a CNA who makes less than $10/hr I'm certainly not in it for the money. I'm going to school to be a RN but nurses are underpaid.

If I wanted money I'd be a doctor, banker or lawyer.

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Specializes in L&D.
I would not be in nursing if it was for the money only. We are very UNDER paid for what we do and the responsiblities too! Yes, there is alway extra $$ out there for us to make extra/perks! But, my #1 passion is for the patient and there well being! That's the reward to me!

:yeahthat:

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Specializes in LTC, Hospice, Case Management.
I think that nursing should be a separate charge on a patients bill..instead of getting paid by the hour we should get paid by the task. Then the public as well as ourselves would know our true worth. How much would someone pay to be put on a bedpan or cleaned and taken off, how much should an IV insertion cost. Doctors get paid by the procedures they do , why shouldn't nurses? I realize that as long as our jobs are tied to the hospitals then we will never be paid what we are truly worth nor know exactly what our value is. What if nurses functioned liked doctors and we were truly our own profession..not tied to to any institution.

Bedpan within 20 minutes of call light = $5

Bedpan within 3 minutes of call light = $20

Bringing non-essential "stuff" to family members (food/drink/blankets) = $50

Getting the respect we deserve..... priceless

(Just trying to be funny - don't anyone get all worked up)

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