Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

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Hi everyone. Please respond and offer feedback on whether you are ashamed of or embarrassed about being a nurse; becoming a nurse; or considering nursing as a career. If you are ashamed or embarrassed, why? If not, why not?

The nursing profession doesn't need negative thinkers like your self. We need people who will better our profession.

P.S. I feel very much well respected at work. I do not demean others and in turn expect the same treatment.

UCLARN, I feel very, very ashamed of nurses, especially when they act over self-righteous and bash other people. You have expressed that you have no shame and are very proud and feel very respected and you claim that you do not demean others. Very good for you. It is very nice to meet such a respectful, unashamed person who does not demean others and expects the same.

About my post, the OP asked whether we were ashamed or not of nursing. I took this as an invitation to express our TRUE subjective, personal feelings and observations so I did. I really didn't share my personal feelings and opinions as an invitation for you to tell me whether or not "the nursing profession doesn't need negative people like you. For some unknown reason that I can't figure out, even though you state that you do not demean others and so I must conclude that you must be a very thoughtful and respectful person, I'm very sorry but I wanted to ask you to please back off from me and my post. I can't figure out why.

Anyhow, your post sounds very positive and undemeaning to me. Your message inspires such hope and makes me feel good about myself and is not negative at all. It makes me feel so good about nurses. I hope to meet positive, proud, and not-demeaning nurses like you every single day at the work place. Keep doing what you do cuz it sounds like you;re very good at it. You keep on bettering the profession and not demeaning others and expecting others not to. (you're all the way in cali? thats too darn bad, i'll probably never work with such a positive nurse as you are. darn it! well, thats life what can you do about it?)

Having come to nursing late in life, yes, I am proud to be a nurse, proud (and still a little amazed) that I made it through school and I love what I do.

It doesn't matter, either, when I run across the occasional person who is not a credit to nursing. You find people like that everywhere, in every job, in every field. There are lousy doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen, and even lousy Walmart greeters.

Now, will I do this for the rest of my life? Probably not (short attention span, only lasts about 10-15 years), but that doesn't make me any less proud of my profession.

Thank ya Jesus... Somebody has it... I want to work with her... Fever

never ashamed to say I am a nurse, I am proud to say I am a nurse. What is shaming to the profession as a whole is how we attack one another, the politics each unit can have, how nurses can gang up on the new grad, how nurses can treat student nurses, how we have not stood up for one another, how we turn our heads when one nurse behaves rudely and unprofessionally to another nurse feeling it is ok to degrade and be snide when one nurse does not have the knowledge of another, instead of educating. This makes inexperienced nurses afraid to ask questions or to go ahead with a procedure that they are unfamiliar with because they are afraid to appear stupid in front of others. What shames us is for nurse managers to be more concerned with the bottom line instead of patient care, and to in turn demand the impossible from their staffs, to let a physician rage at their staff instead of stepping forward and requesting that disagreements and problems be handled professionally, then going over the physicians head if the request is not met. Shame to the nurse that does not report, or stand up for those that do report unsafe patient practices, abuse or falsification of charting. Never should we be ashamed of being a nurse, only ashamed that we seem to have the inability to take care of each other with the same zeal that we want to take care of our patients.

Proud to tell anyone I am a Registered Nurse...And even more proud to say I am still taking the bull and showing up for work!!

Well if that's the way you feel, then go back to school and become a teacher.

Oh and YES of course I am very proud to say that I am a nurse!!!

I'm very proud to be a school nurse; (and yes you do get those weekends and holidays!) The wonderful thing about nursing is all of the different opportunites and niches available! How could you not love it?

Why would anyone be ashamed? I,too, am curious as to why you posted this question. Nurses are NOT people who wanted to be docs and couldn't make it (as some people think).Nice post, rncountry;especially the part about managers. You've said a mouthful!

Booboo, if you are that apathetic and uninspired, nursing does NOT need you. if you are that bent out of shape that you have to work a holiday, go into the business world or go to greet at Wal-Mart. I am glad you are not my colleague! Nursing doesn't need an enemy like you!

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I am proud to be a nurse. I don't always feel good about the job due to short staffing but when people ask me what I do, I am proud to say I am an RN.

Ditto!!!

...And even more proud to say I am still taking the bull and showing up for work!!
This is what makes me ashamed to be a Nurse. We shouldn't have to take any bull! No other occupation seems to put up with it, why should we? :angryfire

I'm proud to be a nurse! Asides from all the medical stuff, treatments, meds, I just enjoy making the patients smile or laugh, its a reward itself. I work in pediatrics, so maybe it's different in other units.

I am a pre-nursing student and would NEVER be ashamed of saying it. I think once I actually have RN behind my name it will be an honor and a responsibility like none I have ever had. If someone were ashamed to be a nurse, then they shouldn't BE a nurse.:angryfire

This is what makes me ashamed to be a Nurse. We shouldn't have to take any bull! No other occupation seems to put up with it, why should we? :angryfire

Well said.

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