I wish I'd have known....B4 nursing school

[ARmickie]

What is the one thing that you know NOW, but you wish you would have known BEFORE you started nursing school?:uhoh21:

[LydiaNN]

I had no idea how hard it would be--but I'm sort of glad I didn't, because I might have thought better of it. Pharm final Friday and 1st year is in the bag!

Oh, we guard the secret closely, because if we didn't, no one would go to nursing school ever again, lol~!

[mamabear]

Don't forget the days when we feel like a punching bag.

Or the nights on the perpetually understaffed psych unit where we ARE the punching bag!

[sleepless in norman]

Read my story entitled " Down and Dirty in the Oklahoma State Board of Nursing" on this site, by me, sleepless in norman. If I had only known then, what I know now.

[loerith]

...that a lot of nurses are back-stabbing, back-biting rats who have no clue as to how wonderful a field nursing could be if we just stuck together.

...that there are many incompetent doctors who also enjoy being arrogant and demeaning to nurses.....

....that families and patients dont care how much education you have or how many intitials you have after your name. They want someone who cares and will listen.

...how little administration {in general} appreciate nurses

...how difficult it is to deal with a patient and their sometime irational family when in crisis

...that plumbers make more money than nurses... :rotfl:

Most of all....

How that being positive and giving a family and patient hope can make all the difference in the world.

Love and Peace,

loerith