Best thing about being a nurse?

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Lets all share some positivity!

Whats your favorite part about being a nurse?

xoxo

Specializes in med-surg, med oncology, hospice.

Every day is different. Literally, no 2 days are alike. (And if it is a "shift from h***, than I'm glad I only have to live it once.)

I love the comradeship of being in a great profession and the respect from the public, and the doctors that I worked with routinely.

I love the intricacies of the human body and how one body organ or system affects all the the others. And using that knowledge to make my patients more comfortable.

Specializes in Critical Care, Rapid Response.

1) Working in pajamas

2) Not getting a ticket when the police pulled me over wearing those same pajamas

I'm a CNA (get official results for the NCLEX tomorrow - send me good vibes!), but mannnn I love scrubs. As a night-shifter, sometimes I'd wake up on my day off around 3pm, and remember I needed TP or some other essential, but had a fundamental objection to putting on pants for the day. I'd put on a clean pair of scrubs! Bed head? No makeup? Just toss on some scrubs, and the clerk at the register would often tell me how much they admired nurses, thinking I just came off a rough shift.

It's the perfect excuse: I recommend anyone in any profession get a pair of scrubs to wear on their "I want to stay in pajamas, but not appear to be in pajamas" days.

Also, you know, the feeling of doing something necessary, meaningful, and significant to other's lives and all that :p

I love the learning and advancing my skills. I also love helping people whether it be medical, educational or helping contact the right resources needed to help further their health recovery. The money, making a decent living wage is nice also. But as most say, we all think we should earn more for what is expected of us on the job.

I love how you mentioned learning. I love too how I'm learning something new every shift.

Specializes in ER.

Things that are a mystery to the public are old hat to us. Death, labor and delivery, size and shape of genitals, how people normally act under stress and what to do about it. As a regular person I could come across a crisis and not know anything...but now I know that just slow breathing and staying with them is half the battle. And I know it with confidence, not all twitchy and wondering if I could have done more.

I'm comfortable talking to all sizes, shapes, colors, and types of people. I can ask questions respectfully about what I don't know, and I'm never in a situation where I avoid someone's eyes because I'm uncomfortable. I'll avoid someone because they stink, but I'll do it knowing that how they smell is probably the least of their troubles. Psychotic guy on the train? No biggie, unless he's got a weapon. But if anyone can talk him out of using it, I have just as good a chance as most. And I can deliver a baby most anywhere. New babies are most fun you can have without drugs!

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