How about the HARDEST job in nursing?

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As a spin off to the "easiest" thread, how about the "hardest" job?

Of course I realize there is no "one answer" to this question: I asked it as a way to get insight into the different nursing jobs out there, as a wanna-be nurse :mad:

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Specializes in Emergency Room.
Your first job right out of nursing school.....no matter what type of unit it is!!! ;)

Can I second that one???

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Specializes in LTC/Sub Acute Rehab.

Finding your first job!:uhoh3:

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hi , i am a french nurse and i wish i could learn many things about the grades in the usa and the way you work! if you are interested in communicating with me it will be great by email --see my profile

see you soon bye and have a nice day...:nurse:

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I would say that the job you most dislike would be the hardest job. That would be different for everyone. For me, it would be ANY form of Med/Surg. I hated, hated, HATED it in nursing school and have managed to avoid it like the plague ever since.

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I would say that the job you most dislike would be the hardest job. That would be different for everyone. For me, it would be ANY form of Med/Surg. I hated, hated, HATED it in nursing school and have managed to avoid it like the plague ever since.

:yeahthat: :yeahthat:

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Lets see, I have done post op, medical/surgical/cardiac ICU, flights and E.R.

I would say the hardest job in nursing is dealing with irrate abusive family members. Its impossible to try an please some people. If it were any other job they would be bounced out the door.

I salute all nurses

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no matter what kind of unit or how long you have been a nurse, cleaning poop is the hardest job.

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

I disagree, poop cleaning on preemies isn't that hard ;)

wound care nurses, especially diabetic specialists *shudder* LTC would also be hard. Anything really working with grownups *LOL*

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Bumping:... please keep replies to original post comign... this IS helpful!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

For my money, Med/Surg was the hardest job I've ever done. My last hospital position was back-breaking physically and heartbreaking emotionally, what with an assistant department manager who thought me incapable of blowing my nose without being told exactly when and how to do it, and a manager who was too busy picking out fabrics and furniture for the remodeling project to pay attention to what this woman was doing to some of us. :madface:

Then there was the sheer physicality of it, pushing heavy beds with even heavier patients in them down carpeted hallways, lifts, transfers, and rarely getting to sit down to chart, let alone go to the bathroom or eat a meal..........well, I spent the last year of that job bouncing in and out of the hospital as a PATIENT, with a myriad of complaints including chest pain, gallbladder attacks, cellulitis, pyelonephritis, kidney stones, and pneumonia. Funny thing: ever since I left there, nine days before Christmas, I haven't been sick a day---I've dodged colds, flu, and a nasty stomach virus that went around my house in late February.

Working as an MDS coordinator in a nursing home was tough too---I was putting in 60-hour weeks---but nothing has ever come closer to breaking my spirit than that M/S job. I thank God every day for giving me the sense to get out of there before it literally killed me.:o

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Specializes in med surg, telemetry, stroke.

yeah that!:yeahthat:

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