Sarahbrown

I am writing to make a comment to all nurses and nursing students. It's to the ones who treat their patients, fellow co-workers and fellow colleagues less than as a human being. I can see why the health care profession lacks so much in genuine care. To have to deal with nurses with disgusting attitudes and how they treat eachother disgusts me. If it wasnt for the fact that I want to be a nurse, I would have left the field a long time ago. Im in nursing school and I also work in a facility. Some of the students in my class have no understanding about being professional, and the clicks are terrible. They cut eachother apart as though we were animals. It's unfortunate that these kinds of people give nursing a bad name. If I were a patient, I could tell you the nurses I wouldn't want to take care of me. I know I cannot stop this behavoir, and it's a shame that Im always reading about some kind of abuse or overmedicated pt's. I really think nursing schools should also evaluate behavior on a weekly basis, as well as a care plan. Anyone smart enough can pass a state board, but the people who need to feel important by tearing some ones integrity and life apart need to be disciplined by their peers. It's one way that this perhaps can reduce the amount of jerks out there in the field. With all of the technology we have and increasing knowledge in our field you'd think that nurses would also move with the times. I read so many horror stories in this website that I dont think I will ever work in a facility after I graduate, because I might meet up with a nurse that doenst like the way I look or talk, and will do everything in thier power to destroy my genuine intentions of caring for people. Ive seen nurses set eachother up for failure, professors that treat nursing students cruelly just because they dont LIKE you. Well I dont like everyone either. It would be impossible to, however everyone has the right who meets the criteria to be a nurse has the RIGHT to be ONE. So if there are any nurses or nursing students reading this and this applies to you. Remember some day you might be the object of a bad nurse, or even be a patient. And the only way this can stop is to start with your behaior, and attitude, because it makes me wonder then why did you go into the field. And someday somewhere you will have to answer for the bad behavior, and meet a bigger fish than you and eat you alive. Im am sick of nurse's who eat their young. No wonder there is always a shortage, and nurses have to work so many hours. Who would want to work under these poor conditions. You have no idea that if all this selfdestruction would stop how much easier it would be to get the job done, and maybe you who complaint and tear eachother apart and try to see the good in your fellow worker, and humble thyself you might learn something from eachother that would be of great value, and use it in your own profession, for the good of your patients and fellow colleagues. After all are we not in nursing for patients benefit. Let's get off the power game and remember why we're in this. It's a hard enough field. I would love to see how many students would pass school based on their behavior. Professors really need to get rid of their bias opinions as well. I also got stories that can make your hair stand. If some of the bad could get weeded out during school, maybe we could start a new trend and break terrible cycles that are tearing down our profession. So to all the horrible nurses out there, If you need me to work for you, I may not want to help you out if I know a jerk is going to be there. Dont need the money or aggrevation .

I know what you are going thru. So am I. Sometimes I stay up 2 days just to do my care plans for school, plus all the reading. I have been going to school now for 7 years part time working on my pre recs. and I am now finally in the LPN program 1st semester. I am already dreading whats ahead. 19 credits next semester. But the good news is I think to myself Well if those nurses made it I could. I might even fail along the way. But Im not going to let it get to me. Failing can set you back awhile which makes nursing so stressful. But hang in there. I have 3 kids and a job here. I figure I dont need sleep. By the time I graduate I will have the darkest circles, over caffienated, and clogged lungs from all the stress, but hey, I will still get my degree if it kills me. Good luck. God bless.:) :balloons:

Well after my experience I can tell you I first tried to get into a state college and it would be a 2 yr wait. so I went to a private college and got in right away. However my experience there was so terrible that I withdrew after one year of clinicals. I waited out the 2 years and am now in the LPN program there and I love it. Its been a positive experience, and alot cheaper.There's alot of politics in private schools. Hope you find the right school.