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Wow. I hope the best for you.

I made some here and there. And yeah, you feel like a complete moron afterwards , but you suck it up (learn from it) and keep on working. Slowing your row down helps.

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The first 1-5 years after graduating? No. Afterwards you get tired of the bs and go back to school to be an RN where you encounter more bs.

Ha. Try going to school in the army as a medic or as an LPN. Wait, these students wouldn't even make it past boot camp (8 weeks) let alone enter AIT (Advance Individual Training) to be a medic or an LPN. They'd be toast (smoked) sitting around like that or bull crapping at the nurses station. In the U.S. Army, you have 8 hours of class or clinics straight up. No bs. None of these 3-4 hours of class and then you go home like in the civilian world. There's no individuals ether. Everybody has each others back and every thing is dress-right-dress. Afterwards, the class heads back to the barracks to do details (chores) , train (you're still a soldier with an M-16A2 rifle), and study. You mess up in your class, you'll get recycled which sucks if your classmates end up graduating ahead of you. Too bad the U.S. Army got rid of their RN classes. I would have definitely stayed in the army for that.

It could be worse. Back then(the 1990s in my experience), the nurse to patient ratio was ludicrous. It wasn't uncommon to have 1 RN take care of 8 patients. Well, in some cases(seldom), that lone RN had an LVN and some CNA's to help her/him out. Today is 1 RN and 3-4 patients with an aide answering the call lights (my hospital does this). If an RN has only 3 patients, the next admission was his/hers. 10 more years. I don't care if I have to eat Ramen noodles and baloney sandwiches days a week . I'm hanging up my scrubs.

Definitely. I work with "men" like that. Whatever. 10 more years and as you get older, time flies. I won't miss these clowns when I retire my scrubs.

Hmmmm....Because hospitals are full of women? Ahh...oh...Now I've done it (lol here comes the Nazi PC police). I'm a dude. It's not in our nature to be gossipy. I'm also a city boy. We have a saying: Snitches get stitches! Just kidding. 10 more years...I can't wait.

You won't be the last to quit nursing just right after graduating. I see it all the time @ my hospital. I've worked with bright and young nurses straight from that university or a state college. Once that call light goes off they soon find out that nursing isn't for them. I blame all the hype out there that nursing pays good and it's a "recession" proof job (lol, whatever! I've been around experienced nurses getting fired for stupid crap). I actually miss the Dot Com days of the late 1990s (I started wearing scrubs in the early 1990s myself). Back then, anybody crazy enough to get into nursing (remember all the strikes we did back then to get better nurse-to-patient ratios?) and didn't get fazed and are still wearing those scrubs today or had long careers. Those people were true nurses in my opinion (I'm knocking anyone today who really likes nursing and wants to be a nurse). All the other college students back then wanted to create the next Yahoo.com or AOL. Today? Everybody is on the nursing bandwagon. I get chills when I step into a coffee shop to get my drink and I see giggling students/graduates reading that NLCEX or Anatomy book. Are these people getting into nursing (healthcare) BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE NURSES or is it because that's where the 100K salaries are? It's crazy. And the entitlement attitude sickens me (Not all new nurses have this attitude btw). It's funny, back then when I mentioned I was a nurse, I'd get sarcastic remarks about wiping butts and now people think you're the sh* because your a nurse. lol.

I wish I kept my books(sentimental and nostalgic reasons). I gave them away back in the 1990s lol.

10 more years and then I'm moving on to something else . I'll still be too young to retire completely 10 years from now, but I don't plan on being a nurse anymore. I've been taking care of people since the early 1990s (Man, I'm freaking old) when I was in my early 20s and I've got a half a tank left for healthcare in this body of mine's. It's the 4th quarter, time to D up and take some shots in the end zone.

I feel ya. When I was a CNA back in the 1990s, I did (95% of the times anyway) what I was told by the RNs , managers, MDs, and when I was in the military, by anyone out ranking me. You don't come to work THINKING YOUR SPECIAL lol. You're there to work. &%#$ these idio.! They'll be dropping out of healthcare pretty soon with their massive student loans (suckers) and I'll be retiring soon to even worry about these people.

LOL. Lazy people are everywhere @ the workplace. From the HBS all the way down through the nurses aides. ROFLMAO. Lazy people, greed, office politics, and so on. LOL.

You said it caliotter3. I worked LTC along time as a CNA and as an LVN and if you can't hack it in a SNF passing out meds and doing treatments , what makes you think you can get hired by the big bad hospitals if you're already talking about quitting? Pay your dues(2-5 years in your resume?), be patient, and look for your opportunities.

I'm off tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday!!!! Best of all, my day went well today prior to clocking off. I'm just going to clean my place, exercise @ the beach (hopefully see some sexy bikini clad mommas), laundry, and then drink a beer..not beers..A beer tomorrow.

I have a stoic and serious look all the time. I'm just a hardened nurse with compassion running on fumes.

I've been a Ronin healthcare worker for over 20 years in the military, med surg, telemetry, long term, registry, and behind a chair. Never had the urge to take drugs to do my job no matter how stressful it got. I guess I was lucky to have parents who weren't crack heads. I was lucky growing up during the "Just say no" slogan campaign by Nancy Reagan. All my childhood friends/relatives never did drugs and I stayed the F away from those clowns back in high school and college who did drugs(losers). Yeah, I'm square, but atleast my dopamine receptors are intact. Oh, when I first put on my BDUs and scrubs, only the dedicated got in this profession. Now EVERYBODY (along with the druggies) wants to be a nurse. Yeah, Im skeptical and I might be "hatin" but there's truth in what I'm saying. Last but not least, my license feels really safe with crack heads counting meds.

Too be honest, I liked being a CNA compared to being licensed when I was in my 20s. Yeah, you work hard answering call lights, cleaning up pts, bed baths, emptying foleys/urinals, stocking up, vitals, I/Os, QCing the crash cart, drawing blood, inserting foleys, checking blood sugars..Wait CNA's don't do these anymore....But yeah, I liked working hard for 8 hours and then go home without a care. Now, I'm always worried about losing my license, dealing with MD/NPs, and being the NURSE. If I could pay my bills with an AIDE's pay, I'd lose my license and go back to bliss.

I've been in nursing too long to even care.

Back in the 1990s I'd say because we were caring and crazy at the same time for getting into nursing. We didn't have the nursing/patient ratios back then and WE WENT ON STRIKE ALL THE TIME TRYING TO IMPROVE THE PROFESSION. Today, I'd say because it's a high paying job. I went to a local Starbucks a few weeks ago and I noticed all these college kids studying their microbiology , physiology, Anatomy, and NCLEX books. Back in 1995-1999, these same college kids would have been reading Unix, C++, JAVA, HTML, Microsoft, and A+ books while holding a redbull.

Nursing is a bubble waiting to happen. Just like the Dot Com days and housing. I remember back in the 1990s, NOBODY WANTED TO BE A NURSE. In fact, I used to get insulted (I didn't get spit on or anything like that, but got dirty looks) by people for wearing my scrubs in the streets ( I was a nurses aide and LVN then) or mentioning I was a nurse. It was even worse for me, because I was a MALE NURSE! lol. I used to get comments that I wiped butts for a living, that I was gay, and bs crap like that while all these Silicon Valley tech geek wannabes were all trying to start their own Yahoo and Ebay websites driving up the cost of living. Now, everybody wants to be a nurse because it's the "recession proof" job. I've also worked with nurses who started off in the 1980s and they told me it was hard to find jobs then. So the OP has a point about nursing being cyclical..Maybe.

When I was younger, I worked night shift @ a major hospital here in California. Man, those were good times. What I remember the most about the nigh shift were all the women....Never mind.

What major hospital doesn't offer a pension after you've vested? If you work in a SNF or a convalescent hospital, you should have been looking to transfer to a hospital while you were young enough to do it. I started off in long term back in the early 90s and got out when opportunity knocked. As for no nest egg for retirement, who's fault is that?

Yup. I'm in my late 30s and I used to work with a nurse who was in her 70s and she was awesome.

"feb 6 by netglow i get ya op, but here is some caution for you. do you actually think that somehow this employee has missed the notice of your employer? nope, not likely. they know her limitations. that right there is your caution. there is a reason she's still there. maybe she has something to offer, maybe not. maybe she is there by the order of someone in your organization, and, it won't matter what you've got a problem with, she stays. " politics as usual.