None of you will like what I have to say. But let me kick the hard truth to you. Honestly about 50% of people I talk to are in nursing school or are taking pre-reqs for nursing school. This is a major red flag for several reasons. If you have not noticed, nursing wages/benefits have been on the down trend.
Pension?? goodbye.
Crud 401k 403b plans hello. Raise? LOL "sorry hospital is working out financial issues, maybe next year".
Nevermind if you work for a community/SNF agency. Yet insurance companies, medicare derived/gov agencies, and anyone else from the top 1% will continue to blast the RN as "shortage" in order to drive drones of students into nursing schools pulling each others hair out on the way to land a seat. Proof of this is, let's see (ABSN ***** ADN, BSN, diploma, LPN/LVN bridge to RN programs, RN to BSN) Why do these different routes exist? To flood the RN market as fast as possible to drive the wage, need, and profession into the ground.
Let's look at our oh so loyal CNA's. If you can find one that isn't in nursing school to be a nurse, ask them how much they make?
Look at LPN's 20-30 years ago and look at them today??
Surely the ANA and other organizations treated them with respect. The RN is next, so make sure to support your local nursing agency so they can do nothing for you. So they can be paid off by organizations so powerful that no one can say no and "not have the power to stop a bill". So they can continue to cry nursing shortage when this is not true.
RNs today are treated like children and are required to demonstrate fundamental task and other skills in inservices which were designed for nothing else but cut throat. To place blame of UTI's and poor patient satisfaction on the nurse.
If you are an RN today, your only safety net is to become an APRN if you want to live comfortably but in several decades the APRN will be under attack just like the LPN had been an RNs currently are. "OH the aging population is going to need nurses" You really think so?
Nursing homes are shutting down and now elderly people live at home with "24 hour care takers" that get paid **** wages and do things only an RN should be doing. You don't think so? Wake up.
None of this is to say that I hate nursing. I love helping people who are mentally ill, suffering from dementia, sick, or on their death beds. It is when we do great things for them that my love for nursing shines. There aren't other people standing around to reward you for your great deeds.
When the family comes in the next day complaining about everything, they never had a chance to see how well their dying loved one was cared for. Your good deeds will never be rewarded, but in a safe place in your heart.
I am just here to open the eyes of people who are intelligent and looking for a new career. I think you may find better job security else where. Invest your time in classes and money else where. Nursing is honestly under great attack right now and the future is black.
to have your career taken away from you by BON , or threatened to , by underhanded means . receiving legal mail weeekly from the ag, over NOTHING. but a bunch of hipe.
If they want to take you down they will .
and I will bet the fram , it was not az that'your frineds' recovered their license from.
YOu are still under the jurisdiction of the Board Of Nursing.
That is the point I am trying to make. it does not matter how high your degree , if its in nursing, you have a board who can get your personal life , your medical file, they can post what ever lies they come up with on their witch hunts on the internet under your license , and if people dont know better or know you they would believe it.
I can just tell you , I have reseached Board complaints, and the probation and the consent agreements and I would NEVER go into to a profession that has so much control over your life 24 / 7.
They can put ANYTHING under unprofessional conduct. I am assuming your mother is not a board attorney? You are from a northern state, which is union , and these types of things are do not happen to the degree but should you decide to travel , beware. No im not hysterical, funny you say that , a very typcial statement people like to saw about women. How many people describe a man as 'hysterical, ' ***** he's crazy? good luck, dont put your eggs in one basket, ie get your higher degree in NON nursing. That seems to be the trend who can get the most initials after there name .
like I say you are still regulated by the BD of Nursing. and they dont care.
I may be taking this post too personal, but I disagree with you on this. I am one of those young new grads at only 22. I believe I can handle situations with the maturity as someone older than me with no problems..
I should have said "usually", as there is no such thing as a blanket statement. ;-)
It sounds like you have your head firmly in place and have the life experience to back it up but think of your contemporaries. How many people your age are this put together? How many even know what they really want to do? And you are correct, older people also make mistakes and overestimate what a career will be. I don't necessarily think that age makes one understand nursing better, I think it helps in the workplace in general and I specifically am speaking about myself.
to have your career taken away from you by BON , or threatened to , by underhanded means . receiving legal mail weeekly from the ag, over NOTHING. but a bunch of hipe.
If they want to take you down they will .
and I will bet the fram , it was not az that'your frineds' recovered their license from.
ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF NURSING CORRUPITON .
Trinity master has some great insight.
Was this addressed to me? As a matter of fact, one of the two nurses I knew who got their licenses back after losing them was in Arizona, although that was many years ago.
All licensed nurses practice under the jurisdiction of the BON of the state in which they practice. People who have a problem with that are welcome to pursue some other occupation. No one is forced to be an LPN or RN. The two nurses I mentioned are the only two nurses I have known, in 30 years of nursing, who have had any difficulties with their licenses that I have known of -- and in both those cases, there were serious occurrences that most of us would agree justified the BON taking action, certainly not a "bunch of hipe" (sic).
Was this addressed to me? As a matter of fact, one of the two nurses I knew who got their licenses back after losing them was in Arizona, although that was many years ago.
All licensed nurses practice under the jurisdiction of the BON of the state in which they practice. People who have a problem with that are welcome to pursue some other occupation. No one is forced to be an LPN or RN. The two nurses I mentioned are the only two nurses I have known, in 30 years of nursing, who have had any difficulties with their licenses that I have known of -- and in both those cases, there were serious occurrences that most of us would agree justified the BON taking action, certainly not a "bunch of hipe" (sic).
Dont pay attention to troll. This is one of the posters from the Arizona post from some time ago. At least sounds the same way. The posts are out of topic in this tread.
It's not really my business what people choose to do with their lives...but it definitely seems that EVERYONE I talk to is going into nursing! When I decided I wanted to be a nurse, I don't remember many people being interested in nursing. Now, it literally seems that most of my friends and my cousin are either going to nursing school or considering it. I always tell them to do some research, shadow a nurse, volunteer, or work as a CNA before they decide because nursing is probably not what they think it is. Although I don't regret my decision (ahem..yet) I really knew nothing about nursing, or the job market, the responsibilty, and the crazy politics/management when I first decided to pursue nursing.
I follow what you are saying here, but it reads like it is coming bitterly from a place of emotion rather than factual concerns. Likely a bit more effective without the sarcasm interwoven throughout the opinion piece. As far as the comment about nurses being appreciated, that's not what I seek and isn't why I became a nurse.
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ASK THEM IF they are every the same?
to have your career taken away from you by BON , or threatened to , by underhanded means . receiving legal mail weeekly from the ag, over NOTHING. but a bunch of hipe.
If they want to take you down they will .
and I will bet the fram , it was not az that'your frineds' recovered their license from.
ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF NURSING CORRUPITON .
Trinity master has some great insight.