Is it all political?

[ERGirl83]

I'm currently a pre-nursing student in Utah (though I did a year and a half of nursing school in Ohio prior to moving to Utah-never finished), and I've been reading a lot of posts here over the past few weeks, and it seems like so much of nursing is political. Women fighting amongst themselves, scratching their way to the top by dragging everyone else down. Is nursing really this political? I've never been much for large groups of women in the first place, and this seems to re-iterate my concerns about it...Is there anyone who enjoys their job, and doesn't feel like it's all a bunch of political mumbo jumbo that gets in the way of actually CARING for patients? This is the kind of thing that makes me want to go to med-school after all...I just don't have a desire to "play the game."

[BlearnRN]

Sure there are some nurses that try to get ahead by scratching their way up however, it seems that those nurses never really get ahead. If their plan is to gossip, step on people, be underhanded, etc., then that just makes them stay where they are. I do not see many of these people. However, I do see a lot of complaining, gossip about peoples lives that aren't their own, and prejudgement. I get so annoyed by that!! Ya, I complain, but then I get over it and move on. Gossip- I run the other way! Prejudgement "Oh that nurse is just lazy". (Maybe she had a crappy day and ooops, forgot to get a pt some water) It is a stressful environment at times. Everyone needs to vent. But,this goes for any type of stressful environment.