I need some positive vibes(pre nursing student)

Miss Infermiera2b, BSN, RN · Jun 22, 2015

The families of your patients will frequently be a challenge, especially because you are often seeing them in situations where they are worried and out of sorts. I'm just a medical scribe in the ED, but I often have relatives of patients causing issues for the physicians I work with and me.

My advice is to have a moment of introspection and decide whether or not you think it is worth the trouble. If not, you can still have a job in healthcare that doesn't necessarily have as much contact with families of patients. If you decide that it is still worth it to you, accept it as part of the job and remember the good you are doing for the patients regardless of the challenge presented.

windsurfer8, BSN, RN · Jun 23, 2015

It is not a simple job and that is why we RNs make more money. A lot of people simply cannot handle it. If you want to "smash your head into a wall" from being a transporter you may want to consider a different career. Making people "happy" is not really what a nurses job entails. I have rarely seen a patient "happy" when doing a bowel prep all night. However the task must be completed.

Golfer87 · Jun 23, 2015

Don't worry about it. Coworkers and supervisors can be just like troublesome customers across all career spectrums.

dnllprtt · Jun 23, 2015

Yes... OK I should've said it a different way I know making patients happy won't work all the time as a nurse. I'm not even in nursing school yet so I was just ranting. I'm aware of some of the reasons of being a nurse to help the patients, cure them, can inform them and yes that's only few of what nursing actually is, but I'm just saying.