any nurses out there who LOVE their jobs?

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All my years of nursing have been in various areas of women's health. I've been in the clinic, a fertility clinic, and the hospital. I work in a specialty women's hospital now. I cover antepartum, L&D, post partum, and med-surg. I love my job so much, I plan to stay there until they sweep my dry, dusty bones out the front door.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

6-year Labor/Delivery/Newborn/GYN nurse.

For the most part, I love my job. There is good and bad to every position, but I feel pretty darn good about my choice and my career. I am doing what I wanted to do when I set out on my journey to be a nurse nearly 10 years ago, so I won't complain!

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There are good days and bad, but overall I do love my job. I work on a surgical floor, and we are always busy.

Currently we are getting hit w/ medical overflows....now THAT reminds me why I dont work medical ~ just not my forte.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ER.
Originally posted by suzanne4

But got tired of the cold and snow, so now I own my own school in Bangkok teaching nurses. And I love it!!!! See if you can actually float to a few different areas to see what they are like. I did that all of the time when I was a student, and it prepared me for quite a few things. I would suggest it to anyone.

Wow Suzanne- I am sooooooo envious! I would luv to do something like that... fam gets in the way these days though. Taken from another thread that we both know about- I know I couldn't resist all that pad thai...mmmmmmm I luv thai food. Do you have S/O and kids of your own? That is just SO awesome. Need anyone to teach Summer School? heck, I'd do it for free if you gave me place to lay the ole head.

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I love love love my job. Of course, I sometimes complain about some of the difficult assignments, but I LOVE the diverse patient population we get to take care of.

We're a unit that does surgery (acute abdomens, bypass, sometimes cranis, we do trauma (we're the only level 1 trauma center in kansas), and we also do transplants (kidney, pancreas, heart), and bridge to transplant devices (lvad, bivad, heartmate(altough, we've not yet done a heartmate).... etc...

So, there's security in knowing that I should never get bored due to lack of learning experiences.

And, I went straight from nursing school to this unit 2 years ago. Some of the instructors preached a year of med/surg, but since I didn't do that, I personally don't understand why that would make me a better ICU nurse. That's a debate for another thread though. :)

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I did ER for six years...Learned to hate it...

I am now a weekend double supervisor at an ECF/LTC...

I LOVE IT...

We make our own realitiy

sean

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I've worked ED...learned alot.

I've worked ICU...learned alot.

I've worked telemetry..learned alot of stuff.

I've worked ENT, OB/GYN, gastroenterology, podiatry, internal medicine, and facial plastics...learned a WHOLE lotta stuff.

I've worked in a prison...learned WAY too much stuff.

I now work in LTC...learning alot..and loving it.

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Most of us love what we do. Its kind of like a Love/Hate relationship. Depending on where you work and what you want to do is dependant of wether you love being a nurse. Theres a nurse crunch out there. If you are not happy in a particular field of nursing, dont stay. Move on to another field of nursing. Eventually everyone finds their nitch. When you do, dont sway.

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I'm the luckiest Rn in the world my first 9 years I spent in home Nursing I loved it . One to ONe Nursing. Needed a change after I lost a very young 14 year old from ewings sarcoma. Shatter my life.

I know work at a wonderful nursing home the admin is great and the DON is the best in the whole world. You can approach her about anything.

When I 'm at work I am charge nurse for 157 residents and staff.

The residents are great.

The HCA on the other hand have wome social pysch problems I'm sure.

The rumors and backstabbing among them is awful.

They are all dedicated to thier jobs but god forbid if one of them gets an extra shift

All in All I look forward to going to work on a daily basis and often short shift or take mutuals just to be there

:)

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

pie123...((((hugs))))...breathe in, breathe out...don't allow the reality of what nurses deal with from day to day suck you in to the point of questioning your desire to be a nurse. :)

One thing nursing students and new grads need to do is learn how to separate what is seen in the hospitals to what a nurse is really all about.

The things you mentioned in your comments about what you witness at work happening to nurses are the very things that desperately need fixing to make the environment of the hospital better for all concerned......staff, patients, and their visitors.

Now...let's talk about being a nurse for a minute: Nurses LOVE their chosen career field. Nurses do NOT love the "drama" happening within the walls of the hospitals they work in that make nurses anxious, afraid, depressed, overstressed, and beating up on each other because they feel powerless to beat up on those who are really responsible for making the environment of the hospital so distasteful to work in these days.

As a nurse myself, I have no regrets of becoming a nurse...a helper of mankind in their time of need. I have no regrets for taking care of any patient that has been assigned to my care. I love being the type of nurse who brings hope and promise to patients in her care. I love teaching patients and their family members about healthcare, making their hospital stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. No one wants to be a patient, but when they have to be one, they deserve the best care possible from every healthcare worker involved with them.

Okay...the "drama" that we as nurses and the other hospital staff work through each shift we clock in is NOT what we bargained for when we chose to serve the sick and the dying. That "drama" does NOT need to remain the problem it is because I believe in SOLUTIONS to every problem....POSitive solutions.

The wall goes up when nurses who challenge those problems come against management and hospital admin whose main goal is to bring in the budget and please the docs that add to the budget so the businesses we call hospitals can stay afloat and make major profits.

The corporations who own the hospitals get to spend and enjoy the loot without having to roll up their sleeves and jump into the "drama" that exist within their money making institutions that create the negative environments their employees are disgusted with (nurses are employees of those money making institutions).

Nurses have every right to get mad...to NOT accept the working conditions they contend with day in and day out.

People create problems........so people can fix problems. People are not evil....it is the way people behave that is often evil and condemning.

How can we rectify the damage done to our profession? STAND UP for what is right, denounce what is wrong, ban together within our own hospitals and present a united front that says NO MORE DRAMA in this place. Hospitals are suppose to be a place where people come to heal, to get help, and to feel safe while within the confines of that institution. How can we as nurses honestly close our eyes to the painful drama that exist within those walls and not do anything to stop it?

I was NOT a desirable employee at my last place of employment because I stood up, I denounced the abuse, I used my God given voice to say "change has got to come", abuse nurses no more....patients deserve better. I do NOT regret being the nurse that spoke up, that brought "the drama and its ugliness" to the forefront of my day. I am a good nurse! I love being a nurse! What I do NOT like or love are those undesirable hurtful things that drive nurses to insanity, to leave their jobs because they feel they are fighting a losing battle.

Well.......we quietly tell one another out of hearing range of "TPTB" what we don't like, what we wish would be done, BUT...where we keep on losing the fight lies in this final statement I will end my comments with:

Nurses within the walls of those hospitals continue to put up with the abuse because they haven't got pissed off enough to put their fears behind them and step forward with courage AS A GROUP to say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH DAMN IT!" :(

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
Originally posted by pie123

Is there a nurse out there who really enjoys their job? If so, what is it that you do?

I LOVE nursing and I am proud of the good work we do at the facility I work in at this time....I have only had 2 jobs that I disliked-one in drug and alcohol rehab (5 days-it was not my bag) and the other in a privately run chain of long term care facilities..I hated that place-it was pretty but the residents were NOT getting the care they deserved...I have bad days but the good days way outnumber them.Even when I worked in med-surg and we were barely keeping our heads above water I could walk out (sometimes crawl) at the end of my shift and be proud of what I did accomplish instead of focusing on what we could not....We can learn something everyday=about our patients or ourselves....I leave my negativity athe door-my co-workers and the residents and their families do not deserve that....I do my share of *****ing but I do it away from the patient care area.I don't let things fester-I speak up for myself now and find that helps me deal with admin and the docs etc....The very best lesson I ever learned was not to take anyone's actions personally....and most of the time I can stick to this...The best thing about nursing is the diversification of the field.....There are so many settings to choose from-your options are limitless....Stay with a position for at least a yr to give yourself time to learn and grow and then if you are still miserable MOVE ON...you will find your niche someday...i can't tell you what it means to me to get up every day and go do something I love for 8 hours......it's fantastic...
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After 26 years as an LPN and now three as an RN I feel like I finally made it. I'm DON of a Residential Drug Treatment Facility and recently became certified as CARN (certified addiction registered nurse)

I still get a tingle when I sign RN after my name and now adding CARN makes it even sweeter!

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