bedbug68

I absolutely agree with Albqrabbit and losernurse...Nursing is the most stressful job I've ever had. Most nurses are just plain mean & they "eat their young". All they want to do is talk about how stupid you are and how crappy of a job you do rather than help you. For some reason they think you should know everything when you get out of school when the truth of the matter is you know just enough to be dangerous when you get out of school. Nursing school is a good starting point but that's it. For example, you do a few weeks rotation in ICU when you're in nursing school but you don't really get to do anything but give a bath and spend endless hours on some *(&^% care plan. What exactly do you truly learn about ICU...NOTHING!!!!!! Then, you graduate and get a job in ICU and all you hear is - OMG they hired you for ICU when you have no experience. Well, how exactly are you supposed to get that experience until you get a job in that field??? You so desperately want to do a good job but you're so stressed out that your brain just shuts down and all you want to do is cry. Doctors talk to you like you're worhtless & stupid. Family members bite your head off because something wasn't done yesterday (when yesterday was your day off) so you spend an endless amount of precious time trying to figure out what in the *(*& is going on. Patients think you're their personal employees. The paperwork you have to do is beyond rediculous...because remember, it's all about the paperwork, not patient care. You have 20 hours worth of work to do in a 12 hour time frame. Day shift gripes about night shift not doing anything and night shift gripes about day shift not doing anything. Every part of your body hurts and you work so hard most of the time that by the time you get off and get home you're hungry but you're too tired to chew. And to top it all off - what you make per hour sounds good on paper, but you're just as broke as you were a few years ago when you made $8 an hour. I've been a nurse since 2004 and I'm just about worn out with it. It's easy for this profession to make you feel very defeated. Thank you to all those men & women out there that still love nursing and thank you for all the hard work you do.