Leave your high stress career for....nursing!

[Jo Dirt]

Alert! Yes, I saw it on yahoo. I was reading through the news and got sidetracked by this ad about low stress careers so I clicked on it.

First of all, they list Nurse Assistant (which, as you know, means CNA) then tell you about how getting your "nursing degree" can make it happen.

I'd like to know what kind of bozo wrote that.

Check it out: http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_8_careers_to_help_lower_your_stress_meter.html

[MzMouse]

Wow, I am imagining some poor sucker taking this seriously. He/she would be in for quite a surprise.

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

AND pre-school teacher is listed as well....

((shudder)))

give me a leaking ostomy over a room full of 2 year olds any day!!

[NurseCard, ADN]

Oh yeah, definately an ad disguised as an article.

And speaking as a former Graphic Designer, that career has its own brand of stress. Low pay, difficult to find a decent job... the stress of trying to line up clients and jobs if you ARE freelance... plus deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.

[gt4everpn, BSN, RN]

:roll:roll:rolloh man i'd love to know who pushed that add too! they obviously didnt do their research! people in my class at school know i'm a nurse and when i tell them nursing is extremely stressful they just look at me in awe like ''she's gotta be lying"" the notion that nurses actually do other things than wipe bottom and wipe away tears still hasnt set in! there is nothing low stress about nursing! nada!!

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

good grief! accountant sounds like a real winner, especially at tax time!

and this load of crock is really too much!!!! "feel good perks"?

caring for patients as a nursing assistant delivers the feel-good perks of a medical career without the stress of med school or week ends on-call. a nursing degree could set you up to enter a career field projected to see 264,000 new job openings over the next 8 years.

[jackson145]

It depends on the level of stress that you've dealt with in the past. My husband was a detective and dealt with homicides, "cat" labs, child abuse, you name it. He has been so much more relaxed and easy-going since he became a nurse. He never has to work 3 days straight without getting to come home anymore and the FBI hasn't investigated him once!

Unfortunately, that also means quite a bit less $.

Oh well, there's always a tradeoff isn't there?

[NurseCard, ADN]

Well naturally, there really ARE more stressful jobs out there than nursing. :). I think I would rather be a nurse than perhaps a member of the NYPD.

Though the NYPD is more "glamourous" I suppose.

Still sounds way too stressful.

[Jo Dirt]

Well naturally, there really ARE more stressful jobs out there than nursing. :). I think I would rather be a nurse than perhaps a member of the NYPD.

Though the NYPD is more "glamourous" I suppose.

Still sounds way too stressful.

There will always be something more stressful than your stressful job.

I heard air traffic controller was the most stressful job there was.

[SDS_RN, RN]

I think this guy was smoking a little crack while he was writting that piece.

Being a CNA & a nurse is/can be crazy stressful.

Ya those feel good moments don't happen as often as percieved.

[love_being_an_aide]

bet they watched a few nursing assistants I have worked with!!!! You know, the ones who are always on break, you can never find them until suddenly they appear at the time clock at the end of their shift. The nurse does all the toileting and turns and brief changes and puts all the half nekked patients back in bed along with passing meds, changing IV tubing, emptying the garbage etc. Yup, yup if thats the type of nursing assistants they are training then yes the only stress is hiding well enough to not be asked to do anything. The other type is always on their cell phone...for the whole darn shift. How could you even notice you are changing a brief if you are chatting it up with your current hot date, gossiping with your best friend or planning a party with your sisters.

Now I know where they learn those skills!!!!!!!!!!

One type hides in the break room while the other type talks on their phones? There are those of us who do our jobs to the best of our abilities and do care for our patients just as much as a nurse. Let's not be nasty now. :nuke:

[lainith]

Interested to know what sort of high stress job that someone would leave in order to make their new career in nursing pale in comparison. I think I'm pretty much moving laterally in that aspect.. going from one type of customer service to another.

[TigerGalLE, BSN, RN]

Well sometimes I get pulled to be an assistant when they are short and we have too many nurses.. No one ever wants to be pulled... But the last time I was pulled I had the best day... It was nice.. didn't have any responsibility really. Just reported findings to the nurse.. I LOVED saying.. hmm well let me get your nurse.. or ... let me tell your nurse... or your nurse can answer that question.. It was nice..

NOT saying that it was easy. just that it was less stressful than being an RN for the day.

Tiger