Areenn

Maybe nursing schools need to present a more realistic picture and train nurses for the job situation they will actually face and not a fantasy bubble that doesnt exist outside of school. You are right there are many worse situations in nursing. But schools are the ones creating the unrealistic expectations. The realitly is many new nurses burn out their first year, and many more the first five years.

Hi, In nursing it is always better to get into a specialty area and develope and expertise. Pediatrics is a good route if you have that opportunity and your are interested. Pediatric office is not easy to get into and it sounds like youve been handed a golden egg to me. 8 to 5 weekends and holidays off doesnt happen in nursing. They are the golden nugget jobs. Office pays less but the jobs are fewer and harder to get. Pediatrics is a great route because if you ever do want to trade over to hospital work you will have pediatric experience and can go into peds or a children's hospital. LTC is not the way for you from your post. You are not happy in it. It is hard work, it can be stressfull, it can be very gratifying but if you dont enjoy it now, you never will so don't get locked into something you dislike. Good Luck with the job choice and with school.

why not? When adult women did not take the shot when it was first produced they mandated it in schools in some states It is a new vaccine, the long term effects will not be known for 20yrs. If consenting adults won't take it. Mandate it for children who can't say no. If thier parents get in the way, take care of that too. So much for informed consent in research.

No they should not be mandatory. But they are in a few places and it is spreading. Soon nurses will have to stand together and all turn in resignations to fight it or take them. Our patiets have the right to refuse medical care but we do not. As we work with the public, it has been deterimined the public good outweighs our individual rights. Heil......who?

"an act of violence and of dominating power as an argument against actually struck a chord with me " Me too. I had an OB inform me he expected me to have a large baby and had scheduled a csection for a certain date. No conversation as if I had no choice. I told him no, I have had nine pound babies with no problem. He told me not to worry about it it was taken care of. I left the office and by the end of the day had a new OB in my 5th month. It took a few calls but yes you can change physicans late in pregnancy if you are determined. Problem is most people dont know that. I did feel violated, and controlled ,and enraged and I can,t imagine how women feel themselves in labor and unable to stop or change or controll what is done to them at a time they have no choice but to trust those weilding policies and scapels.

:sniff:Unfortunatly our inability to make a powerfull statement impedes our ability to change the conditions we work in. The fact is any action we take will negatively effect our patients. Nurses can not walk out on ill people dependant on them. Managers ectra have depended on this to avoid having to improve ratios, and pay and ensure nurses are able to take breaks they desperatly need. So we continue to deal with unsafe ratio's and work 12 hr shifts without breaks. I have known a few ICU nurses who have worked strikes in other states that are unionized. They tell stories of striking nurses who harrass nurses who work strikes. It is too bad that the striking nurses do not realize that the nurses who work while they strike are not failing to support them, but are the reason why they can strike and patients still recieve the care we all know they must recieve during the strike. The nurses I know say they work the strikes as thier way of supporting what the striking nurses are doing. They are helping the only way they can. It is too bad we can not form strike forces. Nurses who would travel to areas who's nurses want to strike but are ununionized or otherwize can not strike. I think many more nurses would be willing to support strike action if they knew thier actions would not injure patients. A Strike Force of Nurses who could act to bring nurses demands to management while patient care was not effected might be the one way we could get change in nursing.