I feel like everybody hates being a nurse!!!

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Seriously all I see people do is complain about how hard nursing is and why their job sucks. Does anyone actually enjoy their job haha? It's making some of us people in college get sketchy about our career choices.

Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

I love the elderly population....it makes going in to work easy.

Specializes in Med/surg, Tele, educator, FNP.

I think nursing is a hard profession especially bedside/floor nursing. It can make you hate your job. After leaving the floor for other options, I felt I needed to go back? Why? Because I do love what I do. I think some nurses do not take care of themselves. Work themselves to death with overtime. Don't eat, dont pee, I used to be like that. I found out early that it is a sure way to be miserable. If bedside nurses were to work 2-3, 12 hour shifts only. Maybe work less depending on stamina, I am sure we would all be a bunch of happier people. I love being a nurse but I have days where I feel like it was a bad idea, but isn't that with everything? If you are planning on being a nurse, make sure you take care of yourself first and get ready for a wild ride. :)

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

Sep 25, '12 by hershdawg

"Seriously all I see people do is complain about how hard nursing is and why their job sucks. Does anyone actually enjoy their job haha? It's making some of us people in college get sketchy about our career choices."

When I'm on AN conversing with my colleagues, the last thing I'm thinking about it whether or not I'm scaring some college student into rethinking her career choice. It's just not on my radar. Nor should it be.

For the record, I enjoy nursing, love my manager and like my job (most of the time.) Nursing has been a very good career choice for me, and I wouldn't go back and change it if I could.

You need to take the complaining with a grain of salt. Folks who are unhappy always seem to have a lot more to say on the internet than folks who are actually happy.

Specializes in Anesthesia, ICU, PCU.

What difference does it make whether we're actually miserable being nurses or not? No college student I've spoken with since starting my RN job has taken seriously a single one of my testimonies about the negatives of nursing. They just stare at me blankly, probably judging me as soft or stupid for thinking such an easy job as nursing is actually challenging - then proceed with nursing pre-reqs or nursing school itself. My own relatives who are getting into nursing have asked me about it, disregarded my complaints, and continue to follow the path.

So why even bother asking? All you're going to do is write off what we say because you think nursing school is so hard that there's no way the actual job is. Then what's next? 6 months (or however long) from now you'll be on here complaining about your preceptor or how your patients are all mean or you can't handle LTC/night shift or administration is always cutting staff. Why do I have so much insight on this phenomenon? Because I did it myself! And the circle goes unbroken.

Specializes in CWON - Certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse.

Everyone has frustrations in any job they do, it's human nature. Being able to voice a comment or an experience is therapeutic and doing so with a fellow nurse is not anything unusual. I don't think the mechanic down town could commiserate but a nurse who has gone through a similar experience can. For what it's worth I love my job and I love being a nurse.

I understand it's very rare to really really love what you do everyday... but it's possible to enjoy and love what you do some days. In my case, I HATE my job and tell others not to be a nurse. sigh..

While there are aspects of my job (mostly interpersonal having to do with coworkers) that I don't enjoy, I always have and continue to enjoy the actual bread and butter of what I do as a nurse. The patient care, the teaching--I'm happy to be in a profession where I am typically helping someone else feel better or find a way to improve themselves and their health.

I've come to accept that there will always be the drama queens/kings in every workplace. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean you can't enjoy your job. It'd be sad to allow another person--particularly one you don't like--that kind of power over your quality of life, especially something as time-consuming as your profession.

Specializes in PCU.

I absolutely enjoy and love my job and never truly understand why people complain so much about things in nursing. At the end of the day you get to go home and that "annoying patient" is stuck in the hospital for more than just your 8/12 hr shift. I work nights and sometimes on off times I can sit back and be like at least I'm not stuck outside digging ditches or working in 100 degree weather or worse worried that I may be laid off time and time again cause my company is downstaffing. I enjoy every time I have to go to work (even though of course I'd rather be home with my wife relaxing) but I'd rather be doing this job than SO many others.

I wonder how could people be so mean to someone that is trying to help?...There are people like that...KARMA get'em

At the end of the day, the money makes it all worth it. Especially if I get overtime because someone calls in for a really stupid reason (see: first world problems).

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

I love being a nurse and overall am very happy with my workplace. I do not get the impression that many nurses dislike being a nurse. Many of us do get frustrated with the politics, short staffing, and often being asked to do more with less from time to time and like to vent and here we are not alone. We don't like that patients have to wait longer than they should for their needs to be met because there isn't enough staff or because the hospitals charting system is tedious and time consuming. We don't like it that people are forced to come to the emergency department for non emergent things or end up in the emergency department for something that could have been prevented with proper preventative care because they don't have insurance or can't afford insurance. I think many of just need to vent in order to decompress and enable us to do what we do even if the system is messed up/ staffing is poor/ the computers are slow. Other nurses understand. They can also let you know when your expectations are out of whack and help you get back on track

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.
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For me, feeling like I made a difference in someones life makes it all worth it. It gives me great satisfaction. The money is a bonus. You can make money doing many things. I personally could not do what I do if my heart wasn't in it.

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