It seems to me anybody and anybody can do nursing, doesn't matter if you are really interested or not, not important if you care about people or not, not relevant if you have a passion for nursing or not just come along we will train you and then you can look after our sick, elderly, frail, poor homeless, drug seekers.
Without passion, without caring, sometimes with little comprehension of what that poor sick person in the bed needs.
I am fed up with hearing about people seeing nursing as a quick route to money it is so much more and it offends me that nursing is used as a short cut to being employed. We should have stricter entry rules and by this I mean more screening to make sure the nurses coming into the profession actually want to be a nurse for the right reasons and employment not being one of them.
We all know nursing is a hard profession it takes from your soul sometimes but you know who has the passion because they ride the storms better than the nurses who dont have it.
I have had a passion for nursing most of my life and I am now struggling with some of the harsh realities-but give me a patient any patient and I come alive, I thrive. I forget why I am tired after all my years, I forget why I want a new job, I forget why the management make my life harder each day.
For me nursing is almost like acting I can be somebody else with a patient I can be who they need me to be for that person and their family, I have the ability to calm a tense situation, I can bring trust to the room, I can make that patient feel like they are the most special person in the hospital and that nothing is too much trouble for me. I have knowledge and can educate. I can make that person feel safe, I can make them laugh even when they don't want to, I can be their advocate, their confident, their friend, but also I can persuade them to take the shot, to take the medicine, to go for the test. I can hold their hand and I can be firm. I can predict their mood and can listen to their worries and woes. I can educate their families and friends and I can educate and train their future RN's.
It doesn't matter that outside that room chaos is happening, that 3 other pts need me as much if not more than the patient I am with. They at that moment are the most special important person in my working day.
In 20 years I have had this ability it has shone out of every bone in my body. I have smiled constantly even if my world is falling apart. I have the passion I can make somebodies life better, I know my 'stuff' and I care.
Yo, Y'all. i trained in Australia in 1978-81. We were hospital based pond scum. If you failed a test (yes that's one test) you were thru. We groveled and grunted our way thru excreta and ABGs, We were left in charge of wards at the end of our first year, and in charge of the ER (600 bed trauma 1 in) 3rd year and received open hearts to the ICU as 1st year registered.
We became RN's because thats all there was besides teaching avail. to females. It was and still is an excellent way to get fed. You can't fault someone for wanting to get paid in this ghastly economy, and don't judge these new grads so harshly or quickly-- some of them may be better than us!!!
Good point and if you pass your boards look young and healthy then we will spend a lot of money teaching you compassion and if that does not work we will teach you how to appear that you have compassion. Then while we are training you we will make the nurses who really have empathy and compassion sit in the class along with you. As for me I'll take less money and just go bvack to old real way of nursing, in stead of the "Roll them in Roll them Out RAWHIDE" Cowboy nursing of today...
I am fed up with hearing about people seeing nursing as a quick route to money it is so much more and it offends me that nursing is used as a short cut to being employed. We should have stricter entry rules and by this I mean more screening to make sure the nurses coming into the profession actually want to be a nurse for the right reasons and employment not being one of them.
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You don't have to worry about that. There are so many filters though nursing education no one can pass through this experience as if they are just in for the money, they will give up of find an impassable obstacle. If you pass nursing school and the NCLEX you are definitely and in some level able to perform this job whether you love it or not is not for anyone to judge. Questions should be: are you safe, honest, good worker, have good working ethics, and care for the well being of other people?
I am very offended at the remarks that "anyone can be a nurse." That is all I wanted to be, since I was a small child. I worked very hard for my education. But if they think that they are smart enough to go to nursing school - why are they not a nurse?
So, I've been thinking some more (usually a mistake), and it occurs to me that people who lack empathy and compassion--sociopaths--are relatively rare. I would imagine that most people considering nursing believe they have empathy and compassion. So why do they seem to lose it, once they're on the job (and you will see some uncaring nurses, from time to time)?
I think I work in a decent facility, but there are still times when I feel stretched to the max to keep up with everything. It's hard work. And when we're over-stressed, I think we sometimes grow callous as a natural defense. I work hard to resist that, and I think most of my colleagues do, too, but I can recognize the urge to withdraw myself, and I imagine most of us experience it at times.
Then, too, I know I've seen nurses so preoccupied with their own problems, be they problems with work or problems in their lives, that it's very hard to find enough energy to think about their patients or their coworkers. They can be a huge drag to be around. I think a nurse needs to be able to put a lot of things into mental boxes to deal with later. Personally, I find it helpful to be a natural procrastinator. For example, right now my housework is in a mental box so I can focus on allnurses. It's a gift, but I also think it's something we can all cultivate. And, actually, most of us on allnurses probably already are...
Specializes in surgical/primary care/minor ops/dental.
I started from the beginning 17 years ago as a nursing assistant, never thought i would be other than a nurse, loved my N/A years until I decided to progress & did 2 yrs enrollment course loved those yrs even more. Now 7 yrs on from then I am about to finish my 3 yrs diploma in adult nursing course, and what can I say except that I would do it all over again. I consider myself so fortunate to enjoy my work so much and I only wish many felt the same way I do.:balloons:
Specializes in Cardiology, Telemetry, Hemodialysis.
Where there is smoke there is fire. In all my years of Nursing there has been a continual trend that I have witnessed first hand. When I applied for my license we were fingerprinted, photographed and we were mandated to go through intensive background checks by the DOJ. This practice was discontinued at some point and has now been reinstated due to the obvious need to ensure there would be no further falsification of personal information. The number of Nurses that slid on through that had unsavory histories has yet to be made public knowlege. My point is, there have been documented cases (plural) of people claiming to be licensed RN's that have caused unthinkable harm to pt's that trusted their care to uneducated, unlicensed frauds.
Where there is smoke there is fire. In all my years of Nursing there has been a continual trend that I have witnessed first hand. When I applied for my license we were fingerprinted, photographed and we were mandated to go through intensive background checks by the DOJ. This practice was discontinued at some point and has now been reinstated due to the obvious need to ensure there would be no further falsification of personal information. The number of Nurses that slid on through that had unsavory histories has yet to be made public knowlege. My point is, there have been documented cases (plural) of people claiming to be licensed RN's that have caused unthinkable harm to pt's that trusted their care to uneducated, unlicensed frauds.
What is your point here? How is this relative to this discussion?
Specializes in Cardiology, Telemetry, Hemodialysis.
The revelence? Read the first line of the post that I responded to. "Got No Job Become a RN!" Your response to my post enlightens me, because I know that you read it. I admit my adherence to the topic in its totality was not addressed. There were multiple issues in the post, and I chose one to respond to.
The revelence? Read the first line of the post that I responded to. "Got No Job Become a RN!" Your response to my post enlightens me, because I know that you read it. I admit my adherence to the topic in its totality was not addressed. There were multiple issues in the post, and I chose one to respond to.
You didn't quote the post you responded to. I have no idea which one it is.
Like the it industry,salaries are going to fall,I've witnessed it. In my school,a guy from an nclex review course asked "how many are in it for the money?" Would you believe everyone but me raised their hand? He then said"at least you all are being honest. The way he said that makes me think that he thought I was not being honest. Me,I'm not looking to become an Apn or anything like that. I love private duty nursing,which has the lowest nursing pay but seeing a 2 year old on a ventilator just breaks my heart,so I think ill stay doing this until retirement(if I can)if the goverment doesn't cut funding)
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Yo, Y'all. i trained in Australia in 1978-81. We were hospital based pond scum. If you failed a test (yes that's one test) you were thru. We groveled and grunted our way thru excreta and ABGs, We were left in charge of wards at the end of our first year, and in charge of the ER (600 bed trauma 1 in) 3rd year and received open hearts to the ICU as 1st year registered.
We became RN's because thats all there was besides teaching avail. to females. It was and still is an excellent way to get fed. You can't fault someone for wanting to get paid in this ghastly economy, and don't judge these new grads so harshly or quickly-- some of them may be better than us!!!