Fulfillment from nursing practice

[Zascott607]

I am considering nursing as a career but despite its financial security have opted out. Now that I do construction and consider with ernest building a farming business, I'm weighing the long term physical strain and relatively low financial profits. My main concern with a career in nursing is I consider it a part of the medical establishment, which has its best applicability to acute traumas but operates poorly in long term chronic care, by my esteem. How do nurses who've been awakened by the efficacy of holistic medicine function as nurses without accumulation of despair? How much time could I potentially have to farm while working as nurse?

[llg, PhD, RN]

I've always like a quote from the movie "Gladiator."

"Sometimes we do what we want to do. Sometimes we do what we have to do."

No one get 100% perfect autonomy in any job. There is always a mixture of having to some things we don't want to do -- and opportunities to do some things that we want to do. Nursing is no different. Each nurse has to find his/her niche that has a balance of rewards and frustrations that is acceptable to that person.

Nurses assess the needs of the patient and try to meet those needs as best he/she can within the parameters of the specific job. There are lots of different jobs and types of jobs within nursing to choose from. Look around, some may appeal to you. If not, find something else -- or stick to farming and construction.

[RNperdiem, RN]

I learned to accept that humans are human. Chronic disease management often requires patients to do what they do not really want to do. Nurses see patients, for whatever reason will continue to smoke, drink excessively, and generally neglect their health.

The medical establishment can only do so much for us. The last mile problem is real.