Most Challenging Aspect in Your Nursing Career?

[rednotebook]

Hi all! I love nursing for so many reasons: The contact with people, being able to care for them when they are sick, and the fascinating medicine and clinical aspects that you use everyday. However I want to know, what has been the most challenging/frustrating aspect about your nursing career and would you recommend nursing to others?

I have a very romanticized view of the profession because many nurses have provided care and comfort for me when I spent much of my childhood in hospitals.

[JBudd, MSN]

Not sure of the details, as I wasn't there that day. We got told off in a staff meeting about not giving drugs we weren't familiar with. Not given a lot of details other than this newer drug was not given correctly, just before the pt was shipped out.

[DiplomaNurseRN]

Families top the list..then we add non-compliant patients, the 'glamor' nurses, clueless management, lazy staff, medical and nursing students, SURGICAL RESIDENTS, pompous attending's and PA's, interaction with ancillary services, chronic incontinence, IV pumps, patient transportation, late 'stat' lab results, a unit housekeeper that insists on putting the toilet tissue rolls 'from under' and not 'over the top', lukewarm coffee, having to pee, etc. etc.....

[CMstudent]

I have amniotic band syndrome as well. I have 4 fingers on my left hand and 5 on the right. A lot of my fingers are shorter but I can do nearly everything. However, I have a large concern over finding gloves to fit. Can you please help me with this?