I started an ADN nursing program over a year ago and graduate in May. I have the highest average in class, and I really seem to be doing well. However; I hate everything nursing, I really only started the program because I was bored, and now I feel to far invested to quite. I have to keep telling myself that this is a great job, but in reallity this job holds a lot of responsibility, "crappy responsibility." In addition I feel tremendous pressure from my family, my husband, and my husbands family to finish and work. It's not like I don't already have a BSN from another university, and my husband makes an excellent salary, I don't have to work. I keep hoping that all the pretentious people in class with their over enthusiastic "I love nursing" attitude will be non-existent in the workplace. This is me just venting, but if you have any productive advice or have felt this way I would love a response. However; if you are just wanting to tell me how terrible I am, please keep it to yourself.
Nursing has been a love/hate thing for me. To me it has been a means to an end. I want to practice as an APRN and I just finished had my last nursing class a couple of days ago. Don't stress about the "I love nursing" students. They annoyed me too. Just finish what you started and you will always have a markable skill to fall back on just in case.
At the risk of sounding "holier than thou," I'd like to suggest that this thread has been discussed all the way through and has reached a point of closure. Please, can we declare "Peace" if only to honor the Season?
Specializes in psychiatric, UR analyst, fraud, DME,MedB.
At the risk of sounding "holier than thou," I'd like to suggest that this thread has been discussed all the way through and has reached a point of closure. Please, can we declare "Peace" if only to honor the Season?
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I thought this is what this website is for.....is to discuss things and stuff ????? and it will take whatever it takes. I believe that if you are getting bored you can always get out of this thread?
Nursing has been a love/hate thing for me. To me it has been a means to an end. I want to practice as an APRN and I just finished had my last nursing class a couple of days ago. Don't stress about the "I love nursing" students. They annoyed me too. Just finish what you started and you will always have a markable skill to fall back on just in case.
And this is the reason why we have so many unhappy nurses,simply because they think their skills will be marketable.
You will never be a good teacher if you dont have a calling.Yeah you might be able to teach but you will never be that one gifted teacher who touches students life.Do you follow....
Ok, let's look at the other side of the coin. Take physicians, for example. Does anyone ask them why did you go into medicine? No, because there are different sets of standards for doctors and nurses. Many a doctor has gone into medicine only for the money, because I have witnessed personally and professionally how some physicians treat their patients. You can feel they really aren't into the whole medicine thing and everything seems to be on auto-pilot
Why do we not have enough G.P. physicians. It is simple economics. They don't make nearly the amout a specialist makes. An orthopaedic surgeon can make one million in a year. A radioligist makes a good mint also.
We need to stop beating up each other. If you went into nursing only for the $$$, great. If you went into nursing for the stability, great.
Let's stop having a standard for doctors -v- a standard for nurses. Thanks, my fellow nursing friends
Specializes in psychiatric, UR analyst, fraud, DME,MedB.
And this is the reason why we have so many unhappy nurses,simply because they think their skills will be marketable.
You will never be a good teacher if you dont have a calling.Yeah you might be able to teach but you will never be that one gifted teacher who touches students life.Do you follow....
Thanks.
True indeed. but please do not forget that nurses nowadays do not have to work in hospitals---for me this is the least desired environ I do not want to be because of the issues and problems of understaffing....I do not want to harm a patient jsut because the hospital do not want to pay more nurses for the name of profit. ( whatever happened to the patient ratio ruling? Was that ever applied (4:1 nurse ) . I believe some hospitals do 6:1--still too much for the kind of multi diagnosis and frail elderly patients you get nowadays. There are other desirable alternatives of which you might find a place for you....you do not have to give up the whole nursing thing. :)
I think you should at least finish up...maybe there are other areas you would like to work in other an the bedside patient, nurse care, there is also research, paper work, etc....or you can just find another career, just do what make you happy because life is short and thats all that matters. good luck
I started an ADN nursing program over a year ago and graduate in May. I have the highest average in class, and I really seem to be doing well. However; I hate everything nursing, I really only started the program because I was bored, and now I feel to far invested to quite. I have to keep telling myself that this is a great job, but in reallity this job holds a lot of responsibility, "crappy responsibility." In addition I feel tremendous pressure from my family, my husband, and my husbands family to finish and work. It's not like I don't already have a BSN from another university, and my husband makes an excellent salary, I don't have to work. I keep hoping that all the pretentious people in class with their over enthusiastic "I love nursing" attitude will be non-existent in the workplace. This is me just venting, but if you have any productive advice or have felt this way I would love a response. However; if you are just wanting to tell me how terrible I am, please keep it to yourself.
Well it's different when you start working. As nursing students the 'love' you mention is temporary - we always have our safety net nursing instructor and responsibility for what, one patient? I'd say stick it out, not all of us a Polly Happy ***** Pants daily lol. Another suggestion is find others who think like you, because only they can understand you - I doubt you'll get alot of sympathy here because many people believe that nursing is a calling. With the economy as it is, it's less of a inner calling and more of your wallet calling lol - so stick it out :) You'll be great :dancgrp::dancgrp::dancgrp:
I think you should at least finish what you started but I have to wonder if you will be able to care for your patients if you hate what you are doing. I have nurses that work on my floor that hate what they are doing and it shows in how they treat other staff and their patients. Why do something if you hate it? You will only make yourself and everyone around you miserable. I have one nurse in particular that was so miserable in every aspect of her life that she could not help but "stir the pot" so to say and start rumors and cause mischief and make the rest of my staff miserable as well. She has since transferred to a new area and the entire morale and aura of the unit has done a complete 180 from before. Please, finish school you have invested a lot of time and energy into it but do not drag your peers down with a poor attitude.
I think you should at least finish what you started but I have to wonder if you will be able to care for your patients if you hate what you are doing. I have nurses that work on my floor that hate what they are doing and it shows in how they treat other staff and their patients. Why do something if you hate it? You will only make yourself and everyone around you miserable. I have one nurse in particular that was so miserable in every aspect of her life that she could not help but "stir the pot" so to say and start rumors and cause mischief and make the rest of my staff miserable as well. She has since transferred to a new area and the entire morale and aura of the unit has done a complete 180 from before. Please, finish school you have invested a lot of time and energy into it but do not drag your peers down with a poor attitude.
Good luck in your future endeavors
I doubt that everyone who feels the way the OP feels would provide substandard care - perhaps they have a strong work ethic that will not allow them to complete a job (provide care) at any less than 100 percent. Or if not work ethic, perhaps fear of liability...a caring attitude is great but some people can even take that to the extreme of attachment.
I doubt that everyone who feels the way the OP feels would provide substandard care - perhaps they have a strong work ethic that will not allow them to complete a job (provide care) at any less than 100 percent. Or if not work ethic, perhaps fear of liability...a caring attitude is great but some people can even take that to the extreme of attachment.
You are right. I did not mean to imply that everyone who feels that way would provide substandard care. Or that anyone who felt that way would provide that kind of care. I simply wanted to encoure the OP to think about how they feel will affect those around them in their workplace- be it patients or co-workers.
I thought this is what this website is for.....is to discuss things and stuff ????? and it will take whatever it takes. I believe that if you are getting bored you can always get out of this thread?
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Nursing has been a love/hate thing for me. To me it has been a means to an end. I want to practice as an APRN and I just finished had my last nursing class a couple of days ago. Don't stress about the "I love nursing" students. They annoyed me too. Just finish what you started and you will always have a markable skill to fall back on just in case.