ethnography about you, nurses!

[ihearttechnology]

hi, i'm a freshman in college and doing an ethnographic paper for my eng. 1302 class on nurses. i need help. nurses, i would really appreciate it if you share with me some experiences. first, i'd like to hear about all the things that you dislike about nursing (i.e. annoying patients, coworkers, hours, pay... anything) and then i'd like to hear about the things you like (i.e. comfy scrubs, helping ppl... and so on) i'd basically like to incorporate in my paper nursing from your prespective. this probably wont be the last you'll hear from me. any response will be greatly appreciated!!! thank you=)

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

I dislike helping posters Who bring their homework assignnment to Allnurses

I am fond of helping people

I love the elderly especially elderly Nurses.

You can believe it our not I never cared about pay. We had a strict budget and I got a little fun money transferred to my account As a thrifty soul my money can last quite a while. We go over the bills and dh writes the checks in the order I have placed them in priority. I know khow what my salary is. And I dont care

I cry whensome passes away. I cry during a code. I cry when a work family has a heath in their family.

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[TazziRN, RN]

Dislikes

Homework requests on here (things like this are fine, Tech, don't get us wrong. It's the "What's the answer to this" that we don't like)

Politics

Poor benefits

Ungrateful pts who think they deserve the world and have a right to treat us poorly

Likes

The heartfelt "Thank yous"

Making a difference

Seeing a child smile when I've made the owie better

[trmr]

here are a few dislikes:

Being understaffed and feeling like I did not do my best, because I had too much to do.

Ungrateful / hateful patients that treat me like I am their servant without any please or thank you.

Busy body family members that throw around their "I know everything, you know nothing" attitude.

Anytime I lose a patient unexpectedly, that was not a terminal patient. ( not to sound crude, but with terminal patients, you know the end result is death ).

Here are some likes:

The pay is good.

The rewards of seeing a patient go from really sick, to being healthy again .

When a patient proves medical statistics wrong!! ( love that )

When a patients family sees you in a restaraunt and pays your bill, unknown to you, until you go to pay and the clerk hands you a card that says "thanks for taking such great care of my mother".

When you still cry because of something sad you seen at work, and realize you're still human.

The fact you have the chance to really help someone else.

Hope that helps.