Nursing & website is depressing!!!

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i've noticed a trend on this board. nurses on this board dont like being nurses and it is very sad and discouraging. everyday i check out this board to see what people are talking about. there are always threads about "quitting 4 months into nursing, why are they all leaving, what career would you have chosen if you werent a nurse, help new job and miserable already, anyone quit a job to go into nursing and then regretted making the decision, etc,etc,etc. i read these threads and it makes me very scared about the future of nursing. something has to be done!! i've been a nurse for 8 months. and im starting to feel the same way. when people say wow you have your bsn. i think to myself who cares, nurses get treated like crap. today i had to call about 8 different doctors, a dialysis nurse, case manager who had no clue what to do, and inform them on the care of the patient. this is why so many people leave nursing. i hate having to say "im going back to school next year to be a crna or maybe med school" depending on how i feel. why do we get treated soooo bad.

another thing im upset about. i wasnt suppose to work today. management begged me to come in on my b-day to work only a half day and another nurse would do 1p -7p. you guessed it at 1 pm there was no nurse to relieve me. i stayed until 7 pm on my b-day when i wasnt even suppose to come in. management all of a sudden couldnt be reached! i felt so used and disrepected. has this ever happen to anyone. oh yeah the nurse who was scheduled to finish the day was still on orientation and couldnt come in. what should i do about this situation?????

Hi,

Nursing is a very hard job and until you find your nitch, you are miserable. The problem is some people choose to remain miserable. I wouldn't change the fact of going to nursing school for anything. I have flexibility, make a good living, and can find a job in a flash. There aren't a lot of people that can say that. I was miserable from day 2 and lasted until I couldn't take it anymore (9 months).I still do work as a nurse but in a non direct patient care area and I am extremely happy.

Specializes in Looking for a career in NICU.

All jobs, regardless of where they are, have their hardships. Nursing isn't alone in getting a crappy boss, co-workers with nasty attitudes or chips on their shoulders, or just plain working with a couple of lazy people here and there.

The only advice I have for you is to not worry about if a Doctor or a Case Manager has a clue of what you do. They probably say the same thing about nurses.

Try not to think of everything as "me vs them". I have always said to myself, anytime I have been in any situation where things have been overwhelming or out of control, I take a deep breath and say, "Focus on what you have control over, let go of everything you don't." I start with the least time consuming task (to give yourself a sense of accomplishment) and then work your way up.

You would be suprised at how saying this to yourself, over and over again, how easy things become to prioritize.

I dont think it is this website that is depressing to me, but how nurses themselves eat each other alive. I think it is NURSES who dont respect nurses, not people in general. I have been given nothing but respect from non-nurses for being a nurse.

Look at how we talk to each other "Oh, I am an RN, your an LPN, you're not really a nurse." Or I am a BSN, you're only an associate/diploma RN, your're not really a nurse"

The constant, "I am a nurse more than you are a nurse" is REDICULOUS, downgrading and sad. We are all in this field together right? Oh, and i think the one that really floored me was "Oh, psych nurses arent real nurses." :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire $#@%!@# STOP THE BULL PEOPLE!!!

As far as the other threads about people quitting: happens in EVERY job field, and those aren't typical. We'd really have a true nursing CRISIS on our hands if that was the norm, and NO ONE would go into nursing school.

Good luck to you, and I plan on going on for my BSN...so therefore i must like what I do :)

:yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat:

And develop a very long memory of how your management treated you after you volunteered to help them.... get caller ID and don't answer the phone.

Specializes in Acute rehab/geriatrics/cardiac rehab.

:hbsmiley: SeanyRN (a little belated)

Oh... and you may want to get caller ID :)

I was happy in my first year on the job - in rehab at a long-term care facility

My supervisor was great, my co-workers were very nice people

I honestly didn't experience any problems

and Happy Birthday

Specializes in Community, Renal, OR.

Happy birthday!!!

It can seem that the "care" has gone out of "healthcare", which is why you have this site to vent on.

I have been a nurse for more years than I can remember, on a couple of occasions I never felt comfortable in my job and have left after 3 months, other jobs I have stayed in for years and moved on due to promotion. That is the advantage, there is always another job out there, which might be a better fit. Get some experience and the world is your oyster.

What can you do?

Well, for starters, don't agree to come in on your day off again.

If I get fed a pile of BS, I won't put myself in position to have that particular meal again.

:hbsmiley:

it does appear like that on the surface. we all need a place to vent, like for the reasons in your post. that sucks for you and we know what that's like. that's whats so great about this site, knowing someone else understands!! it's awesome. and i've seen examples of people really uplifting each other here too, sharing good stories with the bad. sad thing is, our society just plain blows anymore. people are rude and selfish, and work sucks. precisely why i'm able to be on tonight. yay low census.:icon_roll

I've noticed a trend on this board. Nurses on this board dont like being nurses and it is very sad and discouraging.

Please do not include me in this generalization. I happen to love my job and I know of quite a few other nurses on here who do also. There are nurses here who do not enjoy what they do, but that is true in any profession. This is a place for us to vent and complain and worry. If that depresses you, then perhaps you should be skipping over those threads.

Specializes in Psych, Informatics, Biostatistics.

what should i do about this situation?????

don't go in on your b-day.

I agree, there are many depressing threads on here about nursing. Seems like the only happy ones are from nursing students or nurses who are getting a new job.

this is the "honeymoon" syndrome.

Nursing is a tough career. 3 yrs and counting for me to leave - time to find something else to do.

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