No I wouldn't recommend nursing

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It surprises me how many students are going into nursing. I had my BSN since 1992 and have worked in the hospitals since then. Nursing is back-breaking labor with the reoccurring role of cleaning poop. There is no way my back can last another 20 years until retirement. Pick something else to go into.

Manuel

I wouldn't reccomend hospital (especially med-surg) nursing, but there are plenty of other places to work as a nurse. Home health, Drs office/clinic, assisted living, etc.

Like the poster above, I have friends who are M.D.s, and they will not encourage their children to go into medicine.

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I have a bachelor's degree in communication and haven't been able to find a job that I couldn't have done right out of high school. Certainly none paying more than $24,000 nor have any better opportunities come to light. I want to know what all you people complaining about nursing would rather do for a profession. Honestly!! I am considering being a nurse because my six years of college have not helped me find a career and I know the relatively short ADN program will open a wealth of doors.

So what other career would you suggest that offers the stability and opportunity like those in the health care field?? HELP???? :roll

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jeez! i hope the really unhappy nurses that have replied on this thread have other careers to fall back on. i would hate to see someone continue to do something that they loathe.

i'm a student so i can't speak from working as a nurse yet and won't be able to make that opinion until i do, but i do know that nursing will let me rest my head on my pillow every night before i go to sleep and know that i am doing something that makes a difference in this world. HELPING PEOPLE. In this day and age, why wouldn't you want to contribute in the health care field with all that is going on??

and no worries- someday someone will clean up your poop too. if you're lucky, there will still be some of us left to do so. ;)

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I have a bachelor's degree in communication and haven't been able to find a job that I couldn't have done right out of high school. Certainly none paying more than $24,000 nor have any better opportunities come to light. I want to know what all you people complaining about nursing would rather do for a profession. Honestly!! I am considering being a nurse because my six years of college have not helped me find a career and I know the relatively short ADN program will open a wealth of doors.

So what other career would you suggest that offers the stability and opportunity like those in the health care field?? HELP???? :roll

your correct. i have a double major and was in grad school for a semester and decided to go to nursing school over 20 years ago. since i had most classes out of the way it took me 2 years or less. i have worked in a variety of areas. the back breaking work is on the floor. i went to peds 15 years ago and went to telephone nursing 10 years ago. i have worked in many units and urgent care, home health. my job has always worked out with my family also part time, full time prn per diem. there are alot of options out there. if floor nursing is too hard(i think i am too old for it personally) there are so many other areas you can look into . also you can get your masters and be a nurse practioner.

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Okay,,heres the DEAL,,,,DO I RECOMMEND NURSING?

Actually, I dont RECOMMEND ANY career,,,thats for the person to find out while they are discovering what they wanna do.

If you want to be a NURSE for the pay,,then NO dont do it,,,but thats with ANY profession,,if you do a career FOR THE MONEY,,you will FAIL. Sure, you might be making good money,,but you wont be happy on the INSIDE., which equals FAILURE!!!!

I dont recommend a career to people,,,what i DO recommend is for them to take personality career testing like the myers-briggs,,these type of tests can help you figure out your personality....i know ALOT OF PEOPLE who work in the business world THAT HATE their jobs with a PASSION,,,they might be making 50k-100k a year, but its EATING THEM ALIVE!!!!!

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jeez! i hope the really unhappy nurses that have replied on this thread have other careers to fall back on. i would hate to see someone continue to do something that they loathe.

i'm a student so i can't speak from working as a nurse yet and won't be able to make that opinion until i do, but i do know that nursing will let me rest my head on my pillow every night before i go to sleep and know that i am doing something that makes a difference in this world. HELPING PEOPLE. In this day and age, why wouldn't you want to contribute in the health care field with all that is going on??

and no worries- someday someone will clean up your poop too. if you're lucky, there will still be some of us left to do so. ;)

I agree wholeheartedly!!

I am angered by the posts here about this subject. If the reason you are in Nursing is to get a paycheck, then you all need to find other jobs. Nursing isn't for everyone, but I am in it to help others get well. I have some great experiences as a patient in my local hospital, and in fact, some of those nurses were my "mentors" to get into nursing. I want to help others. We all poop, right? We all have vomited in one time or another, right? We all pee, right? What happens when your parent, grandparent, or other relative gets to a point where they need help with their incontinencies? What if the nurse on duty doesn't want to do that kind of work? Would you rather them sit in their crap? No, cleaning up bodily fluids isn't a pleasant job, but these patients are human beings, just like you and I. They deserve to be treated as such, and if you have a problem doing it, then please, by all means, find another job and leave the caring to the real nurses out there!!! Sorry to be so blunt, but this all just ticks me off. :(

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I like nursing. I like the challenge of using my brain to keep up with all the ever changing patient conditions, unexpected findings etc. I like human contact. I like the feeling of being able to do something about people's pain or problems, instead of feeling helpless in the face of disaster. I balance science with nurturing, technology with humanity. I get paid well (go union hospitals!), am mobile, and generally respected by people who know I am a nurse. My children brag about me (well, I brag on them too ). I choose to work during my best hours of the day (how do you people manage to function in the early hours of the day? noon is soon enough to be up :roll ) Is is a perfect job? no. There aren't any. But I don't want to do anything else.

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I agree wholeheartedly!!

I am angered by the posts here about this subject. If the reason you are in Nursing is to get a paycheck, then you all need to find other jobs. Nursing isn't for everyone, but I am in it to help others get well. I have some great experiences as a patient in my local hospital, and in fact, some of those nurses were my "mentors" to get into nursing. I want to help others. We all poop, right? We all have vomited in one time or another, right? We all pee, right? What happens when your parent, grandparent, or other relative gets to a point where they need help with their incontinencies? What if the nurse on duty doesn't want to do that kind of work? Would you rather them sit in their crap? No, cleaning up bodily fluids isn't a pleasant job, but these patients are human beings, just like you and I. They deserve to be treated as such, and if you have a problem doing it, then please, by all means, find another job and leave the caring to the real nurses out there!!! Sorry to be so blunt, but this all just ticks me off. :(

why are you angry? are you angry at the nurses who choose to no longer do floor nursing? you have to pick what you like to do. but some of us also either have to support a family or put children through school. so yes money is still important. if it wasn't you can go volunteer your services for free. many nurses after a period of time get out of floor nursing. yes it can be backbreaking depending where you work. there are many options for nurses. if you want to stay in direct patient care in a hospital you can work peds, nursery, nicu not as backbreaking. i am in my mid 40's and floor nursing is just too exhausting for me plus raising my children. thats just how i feel. its great that new young nurses are entering this field to do the floor nursing but most likely will specialize as they are into this profession. but money is important and its not that great. i could have gone to law school and made more money(i had my ba before nursing school) but i chose nursing. would i encourage my children to get into nursing no i wouldn't.

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so yes money is still important. if it wasn't you can go volunteer your services for free. would i encourage my children to get into nursing no i wouldn't.

How do you know I don't volunteer my time for free currently??? If my children asked if I thought Nursing would be a good career for them, I'd say, "Is it in your heart? Do you want tohelp others? Do you mind blood, poop, puke, pee, etc?" If they answered "EEEWWW", then No I wouldn't recommend it to them.

I just think that if it were my family member sick and if I knew the nurse in charge of my family member was talking about how gross it is to take care of this patient, I'd be upset. If it bothers someone to take care of someone who has a bowel problem, or whatever, then you are right, floor nursing isn't for you. We all go into nursing knowing full well that we will have to clean up poop once in a while, that's what we learn in nursing school. Get over it and do it or get out. That's all I am saying.

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How do you know I don't volunteer my time for free currently??? If my children asked if I thought Nursing would be a good career for them, I'd say, "Is it in your heart? Do you want tohelp others? Do you mind blood, poop, puke, pee, etc?" If they answered "EEEWWW", then No I wouldn't recommend it to them.

I just think that if it were my family member sick and if I knew the nurse in charge of my family member was talking about how gross it is to take care of this patient, I'd be upset. If it bothers someone to take care of someone who has a bowel problem, or whatever, then you are right, floor nursing isn't for you. We all go into nursing knowing full well that we will have to clean up poop once in a while, that's what we learn in nursing school. Get over it and do it or get out. That's all I am saying.

too bad you only took part of my quote and twisted it to look like something else. bottom line. people need to make money to support their family ,my point. i don't care if you volunteer your time or not. i never talked about how gross nursing is however there are many nurses who have done floor nursing that have gone into other areas of nursing. it is hard work. personally i only think you can do it so long as far as the physical part of it. thats why its nice to have so many options in nursing. are you working as a rn currently? couldn't tell by your user name

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too bad you only took part of my quote and twisted it to look like something else. bottom line. people need to make money to support their family ,my point. i don't care if you volunteer your time or not. i never talked about how gross nursing is however there are many nurses who have done floor nursing that have gone into other areas of nursing. it is hard work. personally i only think you can do it so long as far as the physical part of it. thats why its nice to have so many options in nursing. are you working as a rn currently? couldn't tell by your user name

I only used a portion of your quote to reply to those specific items in your post. I never intended to "twist it to look like something else".

I realize people need to make money to support their families, this is true to my family as well. Your comment in the first quote showed that you did care if I volunteered my time. I was just responding to that.

I realize you personally didn't talk about how "gross" nursing was, I was making a point to all the other posts.

No, I am not working as an RN currently, but I am working as a Nurse Aide, in which I do much more "gross" stuff than RN's. But, I am graduating RN school in less than 4 months and have had clinicals for 2 years working as an "RN" as a student.

Let's just agree to disagree and end it at that. I appreciate and respect your opinion and everyone elses. I was merely replying to the post, as everyone else has done.

We have different ideas and that's what makes the world go around, differences. If we all thought alike, what a boring world.

I just hope that when I am the patient, I have a caring nurse taking care of me.

Thank you for your opinions.

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Hmmm, in many areas of nursing it is :specs:

Yeah. In my area, it's daily. Several times a day.

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