Ouch, I'm tired!!!!!!!

frann · Feb 9, 2002

i'm not tired anymore

i got a new job !!!!!!:roll

mario_ragucci · Feb 9, 2002

Apathy can drain my forcefield. It takes extra power to be around apathetic people and keep my power level at or above par. At school, there are an alarming number of folks I see who are, like, living with a metal bell over their heads. Also, when people blatently avoid eye contact with me, it can effect my power and make me tired. If someone walks by me, or sits near me and avoids my eye contact, or pretents i don't exist, it makes me tired. If I hold up my hands to my face, and block the sight of their face with my hands over my eyes I conserve power then. In other words, if I let them KNOW I am blocking their sight from mine, I don't get tired.

When people talk about how they feel, I am uplifted. If anyone gives an opinion or exhibits a unique idea, i am feeling empowered just to listen. If anyone uses body language to express themselves, my eyes sparkle.

Patients are another story. They always get my best, even if they are trying to drain me. They need power, and I have it to give.

Zombie students and apathetic instructors are the worst :-)

micro, RN · Feb 25, 2002

Originally posted by tapper
I've never read as many sad tales before reading this thread. If life as a nurse is sooooo bad . . . quit. You can't be doing anything but putting everybody around you in a bad mood with all the negative attitudes you have. Get a job doing something you enjoy! You'll improve your state of mind; as well as those around you that are tired of your whining. Just think you could be the patient . . . and not the person who is supposed to be providing for that patient.

hey, tapper,

keep on tappin' and studyin' and keepin the patient the focus of your care and why you choose this career than another......

I have a different take on the replies to this thread and also as I was the originator of this thread...........here is my take.....

I would make a large bet$$$$$ that the "sad" stories you hear here are just a bunch of very, very,very good nurses and other health care workers that love their jobs and give their all, but need a place to vent and say what is on their mind!!!!! also see some of the humour in replies!!!!!!!! there is negatives in any jobs and people will have bad days anywhere, what is iimportant is that you keep the positive and help others to maintain and increase their positive energy, primarily our patients, then ourselves and each other............

apathetic and negative people drain my energy.........

:roll :roll :stone :stone everybody keep on smilin' and working seriously, but yourselves very, very, very lightly!!!!!!!

micro' take on the world!!!!!!!!! :p

dstout-rn · Feb 25, 2002

You are soooo right!!! I usually work my twelves in a row of 4, off one work two more then I'm off for 6 days!!!! Tired as heck the first day off but the rest are great:) . This doesn't work if you have kids though because you are totally nonexistent for a week.

There is nothing wrong with these great nurses coming here to vent and gripe about how tired our work makes us and if a nurse is truly trying to give his/her patient's all the attention they deserve and need 9 times out of 10 they will be exausted at the end of their shift regardless of time of day! Somedays downright stink and nothing goes right and usually the most tiring nights are those that it is little stupid things (an IV is out at change of shift, then the pump says air no matter what, then meds aren't up yet, then TPN/lipids are late from RX, then _______) ugghhh that makes the night hard.

I'm going back to school for nursing informatics get out of bedside nursing, may be per diem but not full time. :roll