Is there anything at all about nursing that you don't like?

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being a nurse yourself, can you name anything at all about your nursing job, duties, pay, hours or anything you don't like about nursing? the question was asked b4 on this forum by someone of would u go into nursing again if you knew then what u know now. many ppl answered the question with yes or no but they were not specific. so i was wondering what it is about nursing that you don't care for.

floating....

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele.

Being a new grad & not being able to find a job.....

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Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Pediatric Home Health.

Nurses and physicians who feel entitled to be treat others like crap, hours, working nights, ungrateful families... and perhaps my greatest hatred is transporting an unstable vented patient who is on three 4-channel pumps to MRI or CT.. lol..

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Specializes in home health, dialysis, others.

Politics, phony customer service that gets in the way of 'real' work, rude/difficult family members.... oh - and how did we manage before Press Ganey?

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twelve hour shifts. when you get old like me you will hate them.

working weekends and holidays. if by some miracle you get the holiday off, be prepared to work the day before or after

administration who thinks we should be a bunch of lobotomized bobble heads. actually, this should be on the top of my list.

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Specializes in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Being a new grad & not being able to find a job.....

I second that...

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Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Pediatric Home Health.
twelve hour shifts. when you get old like me you will hate them.

working weekends and holidays. if by some miracle you get the holiday off, be prepared to work the day before or after

administration who thinks we should be a bunch of lobotomized bobble heads. actually, this should be on the top of my list.

I am still young but I do not like 12 hour shifts. I like how they afford you 4 days off, but 2 of those 4 days off are spent recovering. And 12 hour shifts almost always turn into 13 or 14 hours.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

The sense of entitlement that some of these patients and families come in with.

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Yeah... poop and sputum! :lol2:

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Specializes in Trauma, ER, ICU, CCU, PACU, GI, Cardiology, OR.

Evidently, there's always something that could use improvement, I have worked in the nursing field for 35+yrs. and there are several things I don't care for and now in the position that I hold, I don't TOLERATE these behaviors from any of my staff, first one, a nurse always using an excuse for being late constantly, Bad Attitude Preceptors, Malicious gossipers, Brown Nosing, a complainer, one that doesn't pull their weight, a non team person, and lastly... a flirt Diva or Divo... trust me when I say during evaluation time these negative traits are brought to light. In conclusion, I'm proud to say that in 10yrs I have not loss any of my staff, I have a motto that goes "You don't have to like me, but you will respect me and we will work side by side like professionals that we are" :cool:

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Gonna have to go with the "Customer Service" trend, made more intolerable by people with corporate-business backgrounds thinking they are here to save the nursing world by applying their customer service training background to the clueless dweebs who've only been working as a nurse for 45 years. Sorry, the same principles do not apply to both nursing and that phone-bank in Sri Lanka.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med-Surg.
Politics, phony customer service that gets in the way of 'real' work, rude/difficult family members.... oh - and how did we manage before Press Ganey?

Wow we might work at the same hospital. Sometimes when I go into a patients room before I assess them I have a great urge to hand them a smiley face sticker and say welcome to walmart.

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