I haven't posted on this forum in a while. I am one of the people that feels nursing is way tooo stressful and my job has ruined my life.
Every time I go to work I get nervous, anxious, I feel like vomiting and I have worked here for years.
I used to be 150lbs just 5 years ago. I am now 220lbs. I eat to make me feel better and nursing also turned me into an alcoholic.
I drink whiskey after a long day of work just to feel a little relaxed. I drink the day before I work to help me feel a little better. I get anxious knowing that I work the next day. I even feel like this 2 days or more before I work just knowing that I have to work in a few days.
Dont get me wrong. I hide everything very well inside. All of my patients love me, I treat them like my own familly, my don loves me along with many of my coworkers. They always tell me that I am always very calm and so nice to everyone. I respect everyone and do my best every time I go to work.
i even get the most patient satisfaction kudos cards quite often. I am a good nurse but inside I am deing.
My financial situation has slightly improved and I plan to get out of nursing completely by January 1 2018.
Sorry for the rant. I needed to let this out. Nursing has ruined my life. It's all about the profits hospitals make, short staffed etc... I could keep going on and on.
I hate nursing. I am so happy I
am brave enough to realize nursing is not for me and move to another career instead of doing something that has ruined my life for the rest of my life.
I plan to further my main online business and several other online businesses. I will be working from home.
I should have listened to my dad when he said to get a bachelors in information technology with a specialty in software development.
I will most likely do what he said while working at home.
Reading these posts as I am currently having a racing heart due to stress work. After just 7 years I am leaving nursing. The company I work for has had a detrimental effect on my mental health. I am so saddened to leave the patients but I cannot continue to be miserable in my career. I am so sorry for all Yous others who are suffering in this job. No support, too much responsibility and I have experienced unfair treatment and cliques. If you speak up for your professional morals and values, management don’t like to be challenged. I am so unwell and completely devastated at the things I have experienced in this job from management. Good luck to everyone in their search for peace and happiness. x
Do these posts ever expire? Did the OP make it out alive? (If you got out by 2018 you missed all the fun). What disturbs me about this is how many of these I've read. That goes without mentioning the ones I've heard in person.
The medical business in general, docs to aids and everything in between, just seems to have more than its share of instability and emotional trauma and disfunction, up to and including addiction and suicide.
Admittedly my window is small; 2010 to 2022 (5 years +/- being classes and clinicals), and there were certainly mitigating factors; but still.
There's something seriously wrong with a profession the chews up and spits out its practitioners at this rate.
There's something seriously wrong with the screening of new entrants. There's so much wrong with the educational portion (teaching to the tests; a system that gives no credit for emotional intelligence; piss poor curricular design exacerbated by poorly paid and systemically disrespected instructors) and on and on and on.
I LOVED nursing at bedside. I retired at 70 ; 5 yrs 10 months after starting a job I think I waited a lifetime to do, after a brief introduction as an orderly in a state hospital at age 19.
If you're a student reading this and you don't have steel guts and a massive amount of self respect, you might want to find something else to do. Nursing is not for the faint of heart. Trust me.
CharleeFoxtrot, BSN, RN
840 Posts
Yes, so would I.