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.
On the flip side there may be nurses who wears a facade of caring and compassion image while having a cunning unprofessional intent secretly.
Are you saying that there are nurses who are secretly unprofessional behind a nice smile? So what if there are? Life is full of surprises.
I was going to ask, "Where the heck do you get these notions?" but now I'm just wondering why you started this whole conversation. What do you expect to get out of it?
On the flip side there may be nurses who wears a facade of caring and compassion image while having a cunning unprofessional intent secretly.
You're an odd one! Seriously, is standard American English your primary language? I'm just trying to explain possibly some communication barriers or cultural differences.
I believe every normal human has secret unprofessional feelings. Who amongst us hasn't really wanted to clamp our hands over someone's mouth when they just won't shut up about their white pill they used to take for toe fungus, or was it water, or was it headaches?
Our social skills and professional demeanor helps us keep those feelings deep where they belong until we can ponder those feelings and try to understand their roots. This is not a difficult concept. I guess we could wonder if Mother Teresa ever had those feelings, I'm sure she did at times and I'm a big admirer.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Are you saying that there are nurses who are secretly unprofessional behind a nice smile? So what if there are? Life is full of surprises.
I was going to ask, "Where the heck do you get these notions?" but now I'm just wondering why you started this whole conversation. What do you expect to get out of it?
Perhaps your first impulse -- that of a being who lives under a bridge -- was the correct one. I cannot fathom what one would get out of starting a thread that insults its intended audience unless it were pure and simple pot-stirring.
True. And that goes for EVERY occupation in most every workplace that's ever existed. Nursing culture has nothing to do with it.
I think it is called the human condition. Not specific only to nurses.
I agree.
This "facade" issue is merely being a professional nurse. Our first day in nursing school (sorry for you older AN folks as you've heard me say this before) . . . our instructors asked us to go home at the end of the day and think overnight about where our biases might lie. Because we had to identify them ahead of time so we would not be surprised by a visceral reaction to something that makes us want to spit nails and could remain professional.
As nurses, we see many signs and symptoms of things in society that have gone wrong for people. It is important to be strong enough to set aside our personal feelings and do our job.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with going into nursing because you need to make a living. I'm not a believer in the idea that "nursing is a calling" for every nurse. Or even the majority of nurses.
I don't believe in the "nurses eat their young" baloney.
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Thanks for sharing your anecdote, Esme12 :)
On the flip side there may be nurses who wears a facade of caring and compassion image while having a cunning unprofessional intent secretly.
What an odd thing to say...
What exactly do you mean? Do I think there are nurses who are nicey nice at work and to your face....and are real schmucks in real life with the dagger in your back? The answer is yes I have met 2. One male and one female.
I was going to ask, "Where the heck do you get these notions?" but now I'm just wondering why you started this whole conversation. What do you expect to get out of it?
hello GrnTea,
This thread starts to question the minority existence of insincere nurses who put on a professional facade of caring and I realized throughout the different diverse response of forum users and is not exclusive in the nurse profession.
What exactly do you mean? Do I think there are nurses who are nicey nice at work and to your face....and are real schmucks in real life with the dagger in your back? The answer is yes I have met 2. One male and one female.
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
This thread starts to question the minority existence of insincere nurses who put on a professional facade of caring and I realized throughout the different diverse response of forum users and is not exclusive in the nurse profession.
I care about my patients while I am at work.
I try to not think about my patients on my days off. It's all about self-preservation.
Say what? If I am decoding this somewhat inchoate ramble properly, you think that you think nurses are nice to patients and not nice to their colleagues, is that right? Are you generalizing this to all nurses, some nurses, or ... ? Is this based on personal experience (limits of this?) or a selection of posts from AN, or a fever dream, or ... ?
There are so many holes in this it's hard to credit it, but do let me know what I'm missing.
Ruby Vee, BSN
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The real life response from the Commuter is not "backlash by the Nursing World", but a real life response that many of us would agree with.