Do You Hate Being A Nurse?

[ButterPeacanRican]

Hello everyone, i'm a nursing student finishing next semester but i currently work as a clerk on L&D. I would like to work on this unit when i graduate but I sometimes get discouraged because i hear alot of the nurses complaining about thier job. I thought it might be just a bad day but its many nurses and all the time. I feel kinda of scared going into this career although im really passionate about it.

I also would like some advise on how to handle the transition from student to RN. It's getting closer and closer to graduation and every day i get more and more nervous and freaked out by it.

[WIN007]

:scrying:While i do not hate the profession, i do regret ever making the decision to become a nurse, i was in my early 20's when i decided to 'take the plunge' but never once did i do my research first....i wish i had. I'm an LPN with 20 plus years in long term/subacute experience. I would love to work in a clinic or md office but they don't want to pay us what we deserve nor the benefits. I am 48 and over the past several years have come down with health issues, including rheumatoid arthritis, which will often attack my feet and ankles making it painful to be on my feet for extended periods, yet the workload just keeps piling, and management places too high expectations on us. Yet they donot walk in our shoes and never intend to.

In my honest opinion the nursing profession has gone from caring and compassion to a money making business dictated by those with no medical training. It is just downright sad....

It is but it's also a reflection of what's already happened to everyone else. Auto workers, Steel workers, high tech workers, engineers, architects, now teachers and state and federal workers. I'm a second career nurse. My first career, equipped with a B.S. in computer science went packing to India. The computer science jobs here are a shell of what they were 20 years ago. Nursing too is nothing like it was for my mothers generation. Yet both of these professions are still far better than most everything else.

[WIN007]

......forgot to also mention that i am exausted and my days off are spent on my couch recuperating from the tremendous stress......it'

that was certainly my life when I was a floor nurse. I miss the patients but not the job.