nursing:one of the worst jobs ever

Ruby Vee, BSN · Oct 26, 2016

I'm sorry that your experiences as a nurse are so negative, but really, what is the point of your post? Many of us have had totally different experiences as a nurse. It depends a lot more on YOU than it depends on THEM.

Sour Lemon · Oct 26, 2016

hi just wanted to say
if your a nurse and ur happy in a happy ward..KISS THE SKY as ur blessed
but for the people who are in awful wards..bad bosses and coworkers...
do your best and LEAVE..its one of the worst profession ever and people disrespect nurses a lot.you don't deserve to live life in hell but you deserve to be happy :)
god bless you all!

How would you know? Aren't you a unit clerk?

sevensonnets · Oct 26, 2016

If you live life in hell because of a job, I daresay you have in some way contributed to your misery. Those of us who do enjoy our jobs make a deliberate choice to get along with our coworkers, which significantly contributes to our happiness. We find ways to learn and grow and adapt, not to tear down our coworkers and bosses. We don't run when things don't go our way. That's where the blessings come from.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Oct 26, 2016

Let me know when the sky actually DOES fall.

Lostsoull · Oct 27, 2016

Its nice that there are people who try to justify the role as a beautiful job.but from my observation not in a million years would i be a nurse or anything in a hospital. yes im a unit clerk.sevensonnets i was the only who used to work after my time who was nice to each coworker..yet the words iv heard behind my back about me and the shouting from an evil head nurse who used to create fear on everyone makes me hate hospital totally..the culture is extremely toxic in the hospital where i work.and the amount of creepy mistakes iv seen such as one patient documents in another patients file.makes me feel sick from a customer view! Idk about your hospitals where you work but this is the main public hospital and its very corrupt.

AND EVEN THOUGH IM A UNIT CLERK MY WORK CONSISTED OF A CLINICAL NURSE IN OUTPATIENT WHICH IS ILLEGAL SO I DO HAVE SOME NURSING EXPERIENCE

vanilla bean · Oct 27, 2016

AND EVEN THOUGH IM A UNIT CLERK MY WORK CONSISTED OF A CLINICAL NURSE IN OUTPATIENT WHICH IS ILLEGAL SO I DO HAVE SOME NURSING EXPERIENCE

No need to shout. And, to be clear, you do not have nursing experience. Nurses have nursing experience, as in they've received a formal education and function in the role for which they have been educated and trained. You may have been railroaded into performing duties that are typically performed by nurses, but you have neither the formal education nor training that would result in nursing experience or the nursing experience.

I hope you are actively looking for employment elsewhere. You are having issues not only with the work being required of you but also you coworkers, and even the use of elevators to complete some tasks. You "hate" the hospital and feel it is a toxic environment; time to get out. No one should work in an environment that elicits these sorts of reactions in them.

Lostsoull · Oct 27, 2016

They begged me to stay sure

Why not? I was doing illegaly a nurse role i was overstressed I developed mental problems and anorexia ! I became a stick. MY PAY isnt that of a nurse but of a clerk which is LOWER they were also giving me patients heart tests which i dont understand at all...i had to shut my mouth and work there as i had 0 power..leaving there was the best thing iv ever done.justice doesnt exist .

And being a marxist this made my blood boil!

But overall i hope u all be happy and we do need GOOD nurses. Just the bad one ruin all

Im not unemployed as i have an employment somewhere else but seriously i think this has really changed all my outlook regards hospital. I will never trust anything there.abd if i discover something goes wrong with my records ill be infront the minister asap.

vanilla bean · Oct 27, 2016

leaving there was the best thing iv ever done.

Wait, you don't even work there anymore?! Time to move on.

Sour Lemon · Oct 27, 2016

They begged me to stay sure
Why not? I was doing illegaly a nurse role i was overstressed I developed mental problems and anorexia ! I became a stick. MY PAY isnt that of a nurse but of a clerk which is LOWER they were also giving me patients heart tests which i dont understand at all...i had to shut my mouth and work there as i had 0 power..leaving there was the best thing iv ever done.justice doesnt exist .
And being a marxist this made my blood boil!
But overall i hope u all be happy and we do need GOOD nurses. Just the bad one ruin all

It sounds like you have experience impersonating a nurse, not actually being one.

Lostsoull · Oct 27, 2016

Sure the real nurses would laugh behind patients backs for being too fat or having too much makeup so.something which made me angry ..just dont get me started in what is real or impersonating..

Lostsoull · Oct 27, 2016

I actually still work at hospital but im now on reduced hours my choice and will be doing clerical work only :) just left that department and full time