Caring as Facade profession

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Hello everyone,

I observe that most go to Nursing School to earn big and not entirely motivated by the traditional "caring" personality.

is it true that some Nurses put on a facade on being caring in their workplace but have entirely have uncaring personality outside their workplace ?

For example, a Janitor employee mops and cleans around but it does not mean he enjoys cleaning or have a neat personality. He is driven by financial need and similarly a Nurses could be driven by financial gain while masking a facade of a caring image at her workplace.

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I observe that most go to Nursing School to earn big and not entirely motivated by the traditional "caring" personality.

Really? Most go to nursing school for the big bucks? Did you take a suvey?

At any rate, you gotta feel sorry for them, thinking they're gonna get some mythical amount of money as a nurse in today's healthcare system--but there's a sucker born every minute!

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I'm sorry. As to your original question, sure. I'm sure some people do.

But as I'm not omniscient, I don't think it's my job to speculate as to which nurse genuinely likes his/her job and cares for his/her patients versus who is motivated only by money. As you yourself pointed out, some people put up a facade, and I'll bet you that many of them could fool even the most perceptive among us.

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Is this some kind of a joke?

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Nursing doesn't come to mind as raking in the big bucks. Especially in this day and age. Overtime is hard to come by, jobs are scarce, salaries mostly start at the low end of the scale, and many facilities have wage freezes.

It doesn't matter one bit what type of personality a nurse has outside of caring for patients, and being a team player with co-workers. What a nurse is like personality wise on their off time is their thing.

A perfect example of keeping your professional life professional and your private life private.

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Is this some kind of a joke? If not, it's gotta be just about the weirdest troll I ever saw on AN.

Hello GrnTea,

My thread may sound a kinda frown by our Nursing Culture but the facade image in my theory kinda explain some observations of uncivil behavior and bullying behavior towards their coworkers while putting a caring facade towards patients.

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Nurses could be driven by financial gain while masking a facade of a caring image at her workplace.
I am driven to work by financial need. I do not come to work for free!

I work as a nurse to keep a comfortable roof over my head and food on the table since compassion and caring will not pay my bills alone. If my employer were to suddenly stop paying me for the services I render, I would suddenly stop working for my employer.

I am a nurse, not a martyr. I want a regular paycheck for the caring services I provide.

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I am driven to work by financial need. I do not come to work for free!

I work as a nurse to keep a comfortable roof over my head and food on the table since compassion and caring will not pay my bills alone. If my employer were to suddenly stop paying me for the services I render, I would suddenly stop working for my employer.

I am a nurse, not a martyr. I want a regular paycheck for the caring services I provide.

Thanks Commuter, for being blunt and honest. Your response may be backlash by the Nursing World but this is the "real world" answer that I am seeking.

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Yeah, I've seen it in school and at work (I'm a new grad). I'd like to think it's due to 'burn out', but I'm not sure that it really is!

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souleater: I don't believe it's of much use to try and determine what motivates anyone to do any job/occupation/career. You aren't asking if lawyers do their job while putting on a fascade of caring about their clients....or if doctors are putting on a fascade, for that matter.

The concept that seems ingrained in culture is that nurses are unique in that they must be caring to the point of martyrdom, accepting abject poverty if it means they will be allowed to practice nursing for one more day.

Strange expectation, don't you think?

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Everyone who works puts on a facade in some sense. You can't tell me when you have a ETOH withdrawal patient threatening you and constantly setting off his bed alarm that you don't want to kick his butt outside. If you have a smile on throughout the whole shift you won the lottery or are just insane. We work to maintain out lives, no one in their right mind would go to a shift knowing they will work for free.

Nursing is a job,stop with this you have to be caring 24/7 blah blah blah holier than thou crap.

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souleater: I don't believe it's of much use to try and determine what motivates anyone to do any job/occupation/career. You aren't asking if lawyers do their job while putting on a fascade of caring about their clients....or if doctors are putting on a fascade, for that matter.

The concept that seems ingrained in culture is that nurses are unique in that they must be caring to the point of martyrdom, accepting abject poverty if it means they will be allowed to practice nursing for one more day.

Strange expectation, don't you think?

well said, RNsRNWe.

Yeah, i think its more on our Nursing Culture expectations on us. its a sad reality.

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