losernurse

When the maximum you can sue a doctor for here in Wisconsin is a 50k settlement, that is essentially being immune from lawsuits.

Doctors are "god". It is an inevitability and a reality. They cannot be sued (especially here in Wisconsin). They are compensated for every minute they spend with a patient. If nurses were billed for every "procedure" instead of added into the room costs with dietary and housekeeping, we'd be the number one revenue earner for hospitals. Then we too would get free meals and bumped to the front of the line. As a nurse when we are near a doctor, we are as close to a deity as is physically possible... or is it a white collar criminal? I can never remember.

You summed it up perfectly rabbit. The world of nursing is vicious and demoralizing. The only types of nurses that love it are martyrs, battered women, and gluttons for punishment devoid of hope. Once you are a nurse, you are only capable of being a nurse. You are at the top of your career immediately upon entering the job market. Pay will increase, but that is it. As for finding a new "area", all nursing is essentially the same, and unfortunately our skill set does not translate into any other career setting. We can ONLY be nurses. If we want to do something else, we need a new degree. An RN degree is perhaps one of the most worthless degrees on the planet. Philosophy majors are more marketable in the current job market than BSN's. We can ONLY be nurses. I cannot stress that enough. In order to get out, start looking at fresh degrees. It's expensive. It's insulting. It's exhausting. It's reality.