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Have you ever noticed that if a waiter or Walmart employee or grocery store clerk complains about their job, people take their side and agree that all their customers are jerks, but if a nurse (or a teacher, or a dentist or any professional really) complain about their job, people say they shouldn't be in their profession?
OlivetheRN, ADN, BSN, RN
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That right there is why after I became an RN I've worked in areas with high patient turn over. When I was a CNA on a medsurg floor prior to and during nursing school and had to deal with some nasty people for days and occasionally, weeks, and one particularly terrible excuse for a human for MONTHS on end, I knew I didn't want to have to do that for the rest of my career as an RN. I know the vast majority aren't like that, and there are a lot of patients I have now that I would like to hang on to all day, but then that one comes along that makes me so glad that I can send him or her on their way after an hour or so. Goodbye, don't let the door hit your tushy on the way out!