Nurses don't have a hard job

[classactkellie]

I literally had a guy have the nerve to tell me that nurses don't have hard jobs. When I said I was tired, he asked "from what? All you guys do is sit behind a desk and write" I was so outraged I don't think I could even answer with a coherent word. I went thru alot of the things we have to do to ensure our patients health, assessment, and safety ( not leaving out cleaning up after incontinence) and he shut up quick. I asked him if he though putting on hip waders and elbow length gloves to clean up a patient who has had massive diarrhea incontinence sounded like an easy job to him.

Kellie

[classactkellie]

We don't have a hard job, at least it doesn't seem that way to me. I have had two jobs before I was a nurse. Combat medic in army infantry, shot twice, stabbed once, and blown up once. I dairy farmed for 9 years. Nine years of 16+ hour days, brutal hard physical labor, constant strees related to the weather and milk prices, and a VERY dangerous work enviroment.

Nursing is the easeist job I have ever had and the safest.

For me the hardest part of nursing is the emotional part like when the 22 year old girl you have been taking care of for months dies of ovarian ca.

I completely disagree, although a soldier may have a harder job. I believe that we definitely have a tough job although I love what I do. I was only mentioning the ignorance of others regarding the quantitiy of expertise and quality of our care for their loved ones!