OMG! why does everyone HATE NURSING!

[twinjeep97]

I read a thread titled, "would you encourage your son/daughter to go into nursing." About 98% of the people said its the worst profession, they would rather have their child dig ditches. They talk about how miserable it is physcially and mentally. People had said they would rather do any other job, litterally any other job. Someone even said they wouldnt do it if it was the last job on earth. I was exztremely extremly surprsied to read all this! wow, kind of let down, being a student busting my ass off through nursing school right now.

[Sunflowerinsc, ADN, RN]

People hate nursing because they try and do too much (super nurse). Like answer all call lights(even if it's not there pt), listen to pt's talk non-sense, working too much ot, etc. Just go to work, pretty much worry about yourself and make sure your pt's stay alive through the shift (don't worry about them after you have given report) and you will be fine! I'm serious! I'm a happy nurse!!!

This is a JOKE RIGHT??? If this any way is how any nurse feels,I feel sorry for them and even more sorry for the patients and co workers.

[1styearsucks]

There is WAY to much bulls!&^% envolved with nursing sometimes to really enjoy taking care of your patients.Some days, and really most days the day is filled with bulls(*& however there is guaranteed something good that will happen just focus on that. another issue is, nursing school in no way prepares you for nursing. so when students graduate, they take a job that may not be a good fit for them and instead of moving on they tough it out and end up resenting nursing. I have been a medsurg nurse for 3 months and i was a cna in nursing school so i have been on the floor for awhile. I am soooo over it. I will be leaving the floor and hopefully for good next month. As a previous poster said most nurses do not hate nursing they hate all the other crap that does consume most of the day.

[Lurksalot, BSN, RN]

I love nursing.

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

I love being an LPN, but like others, I see nursing sinking. I was looking at nurses peripherally as an aide, but I saw that education and team work was a bit more common place 20 years ago, than it is now that I entered into the arena, and have been disenchanted like so many of the others that have posted thus far on this thread. I, too, have been forced many times to do things hap-hazardly because of being rushed, take shortcuts before I fully understood what I was doing, and have had to stand up to the passive-aggressiveness experienced when nurses tried to eat their young. What I find is that I have to think too far ahead too often, and concentrating on who is on duty, what the possibilities of what may happen because of the presence of certain individuals while trying to maintain the dignity of myself and the patients can be overwhelming.

I found that you can be friends with a person off grounds, but working with them professionally can be a different thing...this same person you liked as a friend can destroy you if you aren't careful. Nurses I admired as an aide are not as admirable as mentors, those I hated because I thought they were too strict turned into my heros, but were also too burnt out from years of abuse. Your light must be 'on' at ALL times, and that can be exhausting. Still love what I do, but don't know for how long...

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

"everyone" does not "hate" nursing.

[NurseCard, ADN]

Originally Posted by Thankfulnurse

People hate nursing because they try and do too much (super nurse). Like answer all call lights(even if it's not there pt), listen to pt's talk non-sense, working too much ot, etc. Just go to work, pretty much worry about yourself and make sure your pt's stay alive through the shift (don't worry about them after you have given report) and you will be fine! I'm serious! I'm a happy nurse!!!

This is a JOKE RIGHT??? If this any way is how any nurse feels,I feel sorry for them and even more sorry for the patients and co workers.

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Methinks this poster just has the cojones to speak up about how a lot of nurses these days TRULY feel a lot of the time. Seriously.

[Abbies]

My kid decided long ago never to become a nurse. To each his own.

I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

[newtelenurse]

I hate my nursing "job" most days. I don't hate being a nurse. The hardest part of nursing is battling administration. We know as nurses what it takes to care appropriately for our pt's. We know that the higher the acuity a pt. the less time our other pt's will get. We know that being our pt's advocate and truly doing what is best for them is pushing against our own administration. They preach to us about doing all we can for the pt. ... yet when we ask for the staffing that is NEEDED not WANTED we hear "that is not cost effective":banghead: Maybe I will just have to start telling my pt's that when they say "are you the only one working tonight dear?"

[elsa2304]

I love nursing. But there are moments when nursing can be a very tough job. But it is those moments when nursing is a 'job' that if you can get through, you are meant to be a nurse. I firmly believe that if you are meant to be a nurse, the bad days are smoothed over by the good days. If someone doesn't like nursing, three things are happening: 1. they aren't in the right field; 2. they aren't inthe right specialty; 3.they aren't in the right unit/floor/hospital. Bad days happen, but amazing days happen as well.

I recommend nursing to everyone... because I love what it means to be a nurse.

[angel337, MSN, RN]

if so many people "hated" nursing, there wouldn't be so many people doing it...the hospitals would be empty and the patients would be dying and there would be no waiting lists to go to nursing school. i can't stand generalizations. i have my days like anyone else in any other profession, but i can truly say i like what i do. i have had to move around a little bit to find better jobs, but overall it has been worth it.

[neurorn6]

Nursing is the best and worst job anyone can have. We are there when children come into this world and we are often the only one there when someone leaves it. That being said, that are days that I have walked out to my car and realized that it was a good day only because someone didn't die. Let's be honest, as a mother I know that there are professions out there that can provide my son or daughter with more earning potential, better hours, better benefits and less stress. Unless one of them had a true desire to be a nurse, I won't encourage them to enter the field.

As a profession, we are treated with less respect then we deserve. Physican, management, family and friends of family can and often do treat us poorly. Meg/Surg nurses can have over 6 or more patients to care for, yet when that call bell doesn't get answered immediately, that's what they hear about. Never mind that they were doing a treatment or speaking to a physician.

I don't think nurses as a whole hate nursing, I think it's more like they hate the conditions in which they work. Personally, I love being a nurse. I do dislike the way we get treated. Unfortunately, nurses have a tendancy to be more than catty to each other. That can make for a very negative atmosphere in a work environment. I hate the way hospitals and other facilities treat us. I am not a robot nor are most nurses that I know. I have had the honor to work with some wonder, compassionate and truly gifted over the years.

To each of you I take my hat off to you for the work that you do and the skill that you bring each day to your patients. I hope that in my travels I have the opportunity to work with some of you.

[SmilingBluEyes]

I really like being a nurse. Yes, oh yes, there are days I HATE it. THere are aspects of nursing I can live without. But I love being a nurse, to my core. Caring for birthing families is a privilege to me.

Don't let venting and/or angry posts here at allnurses.com get you down. People do come here to let off steam and cope with the many stresses of being a nurse in the 21st century. How about reading the "why I love nursing" sticky started by NRSKAREN above to re-affirm your desire to be a nurse?

Good luck in all you do.