How many of you hate your job?

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To all who have their BSN - do you hate or love your job as a nurse? I keep hearing from people on this site that they hate their job and wish they would have done something else with their life. Is nursing really this terrible? It seems to me nursing is a GREAT profession to get into. You basically get around 50k a year to help care for people. Call me crazy, but I don't think the job is really that HARD if you just have the right mind set. I would much rather be cleaning up people's **** (code brown) than sitting on my *** all day staring at a computer screen or doing marketing meetings. The other complaint I also keep hearing from people in nursing is that they hate their job because people gossip about them too much... haha- get over yourself. Who cares what others are saying about you, just do your job and don't let it get to ya. Let me know what you guys think!

to the OP: are you actually working as a nurse right now?

I love my job when Im getting to help save lives and see an impact in my patient's condition. I dont always love being blamed for everything, having people be out to get you, out of touch managers making your life more difficult, etc.

From your post, it sounds like you havent yet been in our shoes so maybe you shouldnt comment.

Sorry a silly question but I don't want to miss understand any post that I read and I am still new to this forum. When you say to the OP - what does that mean? Is that referring to the person that started the post and if so what exactly does the abbreviation stand for. I know I will probably get ridiculed for asking such a simple question, but I really do not understand all of the forum abbreviations yet, maybe there should be a class for it, we can take it right after Medical Terminology. LOL!!!!!

Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

Yes, the Original Poster = Op.

Welcome!

Yes, the Original Poster = Op.

Welcome!

Thank you, I have the same trouble with some of the titles to post when people use abbreviations. I will open a post to see what it is about and have to read half way through it before I realize that it is about something to do with a particular school or state and I have just wasted my time. I know that sounds silly to anyone that is a forum pro, but I am trying to learn. Thanks for the help, and the lack of ridicule. :)

It appears that you have started a thread to convince yourself that what you have read or heard is not really true because you have much invested in being a nursing student and are confronted by it.

Nursing is hard at times, no matter your ''mindset" but most Nurses, most of the time just get on with the job. Sometimes it will be rewarding for them, sometimes it will be a huge pain in the ass, but most roll with the punches (well some of the girls might have a cry, then it's all better) when they happen. The one's that don't, get out of the profession.

Some Nurses might think they should have done something else in their life, however people in many other occupations would probably say the same.

Nurses have plenty of responsiblity and very little authority. We care for patients when the Doctors, Physios, Speech Paths, Dieticians etc have done their rounds and take up the slack of anything that does not fit into the neat Medical or Allied Health boxes. We are basically the dogsbody's at the coalface of the healthcare system.

That is the reality but you can always go back to your textbooks that frequently reference "nursing autonomy" if you don't like it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being a nurse as many others do. Just take off your rose coloured glasses dude.

Oh, and gossiping...well that is part and parcel of working in an occupation vastly dominated by women.

Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I must be the crazy one because I would swear I responded to this thread earlier with a bunch of other people.....

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

I hate not HAVING a job..........

I feel a lot of people get into nursing strictly for the money, then they find out that the money doesn't even amount to all the stress and BS that they have to deal with. Don't get me wrong, of course there are nurses out there who are passionate, but there is also a lot of people who get a rude awakening because they went in to nursing with the wrong goals. Money doesn't always bring happiness...

If you're a nurse and have the TIME to deal with a "code brown", then you're in a good job and should stay. Nursing, like any other job, has its good and its bad. The culture varies from department to department and changea as the individual staff members change. One poisonous person can ruin a great job. You can only be responsible for your own actions; why try to classify all nurses/all nursing positions as being the same?

I love my job. I would argue that the work is very hard, at times physically difficult, sometimes mentally, emotionally, and/or intellectually. That's part of why I like it.

I'm sorry so many people work in toxic environments. I personally have a great bunch of coworkers. Yes, sometimes they are catty, yes sometimes someone is grumpy. Yes, sometimes our patients or their families are extremely difficult to deal with. Sometimes my administrators simply MUST be smoking crack, as it would be the only explanation for some of their policies. But I've worked in many environments (child care, education, the restaurant industry to name a few) and I honestly saw this everywhere.

I will say, it seems to me that night shift (at least where I work) is a different beast than days. We all get along better. Maybe because there are fewer staff, so we have to depend upon each other more. I don't know. Maybe because only crazy people would work nights for a long time.

I'm an ASN, though, but I'm sure my opinion counts as much as the next. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but in the future, you might consider simply using the term RN or nurse. For the info/opinions you requested in your post, you really only need "nurse".

I also wonder why you limited it to BSNs? ;) Anyways, I'm a ADN and love my job. It is the hardest job I've had to do, but it brings me the most satisfaction. Any job comes with the good and the bad. If I did not like what I was doing, you could not pay me enough to do this job.

Sure I complain about this and that - but all in all I would not want to do anything else at this time. And yes there are moments when I think - "why exactly did I become a nurse" ? :lol2:

Specializes in Telemetry, Neuro, Renal, Ortho.

I looooove nursing!! It has so many great benefits. We have flexible schedules, can work 3 days a week, get PTO and can take vacations easily with our work schedule. It pays well. It's a profession that can make us feel good because we are doing good for others. Do I need to go on? Nursing is awesome!!!

I find that most "nurses" love nursing, they just dislike where they are nursing. With all the changes in healthcare, the economy, government involvement, patient's perceptions/expectations, our jobs are not what they once were. Many hospitals are not supportive of their staff and its the employers that can make or break a job.

Nurses come in all shapes, sizes and education. BSN's arent the only ones who provide nursing care. Us dinosaurs of the diploma era have been around for a long time

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