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I would recommend nursing to my daughter. I've been in nursing since 1984. Yes, I did have a rough start, during my first weeks off orientation I would go home at 530p.m. and this is a 7-3p.m. shift. After my two years, I was burned out so I went to work for an insurance company but after weeks of sitting down and going through policy- I was bored stiff so I went back to working at the bedside on my weekends off. I found out that I missed having that patient contact. So after ten months at the insurance company, I went back to bedside nursing. After 5 years of bedside nursing, I was promoted to management which I enjoy. Nursing has so many specialty areas that one can go to--- med/surg nursing, ICCU, LDRP, parish nursing, psych nursing.etc..... It's sad to hear some have had bad experience. We as "nurses" need to change how other people treat us. I'm sorry to hear that nurseinlimbo had a bad experience with managers. I've been a manager about 19 years and I've always have good relationship with my staff. i guess I learned as a staff. I know not what to do with my staff. Most of the time in my position, I feel that I'm the one that is not appreciated and abuse by staff. I help out a lot in my unit and I think staff forgets that there are things that I need to get done. The staff would ask me to do things for them. I am able to help them but the staff are not able to do the things that managers have to do especially paper works.

I need information on nursing in Canada. Can anyone be my email pal for the next three months to get information regarding nursing issues in Canada? I'll need information for our class and it'll be due in two weeks!!!!!

Can anyone tell me what nursing is like in australia? How are nurses treated? Waht nursing issues do you face? These are some of the issues I need to know for my class.

Hi, I'm from the U.S., sorry to hear about your dilemma. Here in the U.S. especially where I'm working, we try to recruit nurses when they are in their senior year enticing them to apply to our hospital after graduation. I think we have been very successful. I have a new grad in our unit that graduated last year. good luck!!!