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What kind of horrible profession do we work in? How healthy does a person need to be to work as a nurse? I have heard this a lot over the 25 years that I have worked in health care. Are we supposed to be athletes? They they need to pay us like 25 million a year so after we work our buts off and ruin our health for our job we can at least enjoy early retirement. I won't tell you what I think of you as a person because that would be rude. But I don't wish good health to you and I wonder how you treat your patients. Sounds like nurses have the least amount of compassion of all.

Can anyone actually give some real advice here? What if she does hate it. I have hated it since I started and I hate it now six years later. It has only gotten worse. The economy is so bad now that we have to be grateful to have a job so we get treated even worse. I know jobs are scarce, but has anyone ever heard of anyone that got out and was able to transfer their skills to something totally different? I made a huge mistake by becoming a nurse. And I am glad to finally admit it.

I am so tired of complaining about this profession. I realize now that I was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I just wish is that students would really read these posts before just saying "It is my dream to become a nurse". The bible says; "pride cometh before the fall". I believe this is why a lot of us go to nursing school, we are proud. We want to prove that we can be a big shot. Well God has made sure I will never be proud again. I now have to take responsibility for my own mistakes. I had plenty of warnings, I worked as a nurses aid for over 20 years and I was already physically damaged by that job. But, I still chose to disregard these warnings. It was all because of pride. Please, students, don't let pride be your downfall too.

What ever happened with you? I am in an almost exact same position as you. I instead started working in a nursing home a few months ago.

I was wondering how much time should you spend with nonpharmalogical interventions? It does kind of sound like torture just thinking of ways to make people who are in pain wait and try different positions until we feel like nothing else works.

My residents are allowed to smoke and I have worked at facilities where they are allowed to keep gallons of vodka in their rooms. But I am thinking about treating their symptoms, so us helping to administer it.

All I have found so far is the OSBN statement on nurses who need medical marijuana. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.oregonrn.org/resource/resmgr/imported/Medical_Marijuana-FINAL.pdf It is the same as any drug that might impair a person. That you should not work impaired. I also read that the ANA is against all random dug testing because it goes against our civil liberties. I believe that my idea for LTC patients to have access is going to be something a facility would have to discuss with their attorneys. So that will probably never happen since people are closed minded and constantly living in fear. It is very sad to see, when there is so much positive that can be done for our patients. What if antibiotics were illegal?

I work in a long term care facility. A couple of my patients have told me that they have their medical marijuana cards. (we live in a state that allows this). I believe that my patients deserve to receive this medication. Recently I have started an in depth study of the pros and cons of this medication. I can really see no reason that long term care resident should be prevented from having this access. We give them an unbelievable amount of opiates. Also the latest research shows that marijuana and opiates should be used in conjunction http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/12/11077/ucsf-study-finds-medical-marijuana-could-help-patients-reduce-pain-opiates. And what about our patients with insomnia and those that never eat? The more research I do the more I feel that I am depriving my patients from a very beneficial medication. How can I change things so they can have all their meds?

The more I research cannabis the more stories I hear about people who are helped. I have never heard of a person that was actually harmed. We really need to stop acting like children and actually help our patients. I am not sure why nurses feel like they can't think for themselves.

Please don't act like you can feel whatever other people are feeling. How long have you worked in healthcare? i doubt that you have worked long enough to have real pain.

Workers comp is a joke don't put yourself through that hell. They don't care about you and will do everything they can to discredit you. The only answer I have is to suffer. I will never understand how health care professionals are treated so badly when they are injured by years of hard labor. But nothing matters but the bottom line.

I just got fired because my husband wrote an anonymous email to my boss with legitimate complaints about one of my coworkers

Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with young people. I have worked in health care all my life and I think that young people should think before getting into the field. It is very hard to find work right now there are many promises of a bright future for the profession but not now. If it does get better those jobs are going to be working with the elderly, so the students should know that they need to realize that they might have to work in long term care, those are not very glamorous jobs. Health care is very demanding physically and there might come a point where they cannot work in some jobs because they can become injured. About the young men that want to go into nursing, that is awesome. Personally, I believe that there needs to be more male nurses for many reasons. If I were hiring I would give males preference. I have only done hiring in long term care so I cannot speak for all fields of nursing. I do think that HIT is really the way to go so I would advise taking as many computer classes as they can. Please ignore my grammar

I hope things go better for you. I am still not working either. I don't know how we are going to pay the bills anymore.

It's almost a year now, any luck? I am about to give up.