I am done with healthcare

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I am done. Not officially because I need to figure out my next move, but I am done with healthcare, not just nursing. I have realized that my personality does not fit this profession. I am not a patient or tolerant person. I entered healthcare because I enjoy the knowledge base of the human body and teaching others about their bodies in an effort to promote personal health management. I am done with it because their is no accountability or responsibility in our healthcare system and it is not encouraged or fostered.

Our system is built on encouraging people to go to the doctor and expect that they and the system will take care of them. Again, no accountability and no responsibility. And I am sick of it. I might stick around if our society actually fostered preventive healthcare and paid trained professionals to empower the masses to be responsible for their health. But I don't see that becoming the norm any time soon. I should have been a librarian. Any ideas of professions where you don't have to work with people at all???

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
Did the cows ever talk back?! My Mum says they can be very contrary.

*** Well yes thay can be very contrary. However, here is the thing you have to remember. At anytime if a cow gets too contrary you can kill her and eat her! Name me one other profession where when something is contrary and really bugging you, you are allowed to kill them and eat them? Maybe pig farmers I suppose.

Of course in realiety good dairy cows are very expensive and so there is very little to no actual killing and eating. But just knowing that you could do so, all perfectlyt legal and delicious, goes a long way towards good mental health

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.
*** Well yes thay can be very contrary. However, here is the thing you have to remember. At anytime if a cow gets too contrary you can kill her and eat her! Name me one other profession where when something is contrary and really bugging you, you are allowed to kill them and eat them? Maybe pig farmers I suppose.

Of course in realiety good dairy cows are very expensive and so there is very little to no actual killing and eating. But just knowing that you could do so, all perfectlyt legal and delicious, goes a long way towards good mental health

Lol! If we could kill & eat patients, there wouldn't be ANY LEFT, hee hee!

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Specializes in ER.
Lol! If we could kill & eat patients, there wouldn't be ANY LEFT, hee hee!

You know we'd all have worms though.

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Specializes in PACU, OR.

I suppose the answer is to go into veterinary medicine, either as a veterinarian (I believe the training's even more brutal than that of an MD, though) or as a trained assistant. At least you wouldn't be wasting all your acquired skills. However, even in small animal clinics or large animal medicine, you are confronted with heartbreaking situations caused by cruelty and/or ignorance, so you're exchanging one set of frustrations for a different set.

Surveys conducted some years ago showed that biologists are happiest in their jobs, but don't quote me on that :D

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

In veterinary medicine, I think I would run into the same problem that keeps me away from pediatrics.

Parents. =)

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Specializes in Government.

I'd stay away from librarian. My friends who are in that field say it is one idiot after another all day long. Maybe if you got a gig as a reserach librarian in some high end library where you could limit who you serve. It is also a lot of education for little $.

I often think: "where was my guidance counselor???" when I hear about great jobs. I've rarely been all swoony about what I do for cash. I love my hobbies, my yoga practice and my husband. I put up with the rest.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Yeah, in veterinary medicine you get to watch them do it to another living entity, not just to themselves.

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Specializes in PCCN.

i do hear ya op- i was hoping to get a job in the OR ( something I had wanted to do from the start ) but now they wont take youu unless you have BSN. I am 5 classes away. I don't think I can take another year of this floor crap- but one day at a time.

How pathetic has healthcare become.It isntt health care- its sick care.

And isnt it so nice to know or realize that our employers are the ones who have made it hell by the way we are forced to kiss the "patients" butts. I'd say maybe 1/20 pts isnt obnoxious.

OP if youre in a position to change- go for it. I know my choices are either this job or a min. wage job in which i cant even afford an apt here where i live on that salary.( and a min. wage job i might not even get as there arent too many of those either in my area.

So my choices is put up until the job shuts me up and I cant take it anymore and end up doing something drastic.

That'S how much "I" hate healthcare

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Ironically Healthcare is a sick business. Bedside nursing is becoming impossible.

Just left the gas station and witnessed something I think most of you will appreciate. The guy ahead of me was giving the guy behind the register a hard time. Not sure what had transpired before I walked up but I got there just in time to hear the customer hurl the F word at the cashier. Calmly the cashier said "Have a nice day sir. We're done here".

The customer proceeded to argue, the cashier called for his coworker. The coworker informed the customer that he was not welcome in the store since every time he came in he had a complaint and to please "take your business elsewhere in the future". Additionally customer was told if he returned he would be trespassing and the police would be called.

No a$$ kissing, no encouraging bad behavior. It was beautiful. Made me want to be a gas station attendant.

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*** Well yes thay can be very contrary. However, here is the thing you have to remember. At anytime if a cow gets too contrary you can kill her and eat her! Name me one other profession where when something is contrary and really bugging you, you are allowed to kill them and eat them? Maybe pig farmers I suppose.

Of course in realiety good dairy cows are very expensive and so there is very little to no actual killing and eating. But just knowing that you could do so, all perfectlyt legal and delicious, goes a long way towards good mental health

You can also do this to chickens (usually it is the rooster that gets out of hand and wants to start attacking people) and goats. My husband used to live out in the country before we were married and used to raise both. A farm might be a good idea. You can raise animals and vegetables for yourself and to sell. You could get into the organic business.

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