Retriever5280

The day I can say good riddance to nursing will be the brightest day of my life. Professionals? Hardly. We're treated worse than waitresses. Please, if you can, do yourself a favor and flip this field off for one that has sanity and a modium of respect.

Knowing what I know now, I would seek a hands-on jobs like HVAC tech. No way would I enter this field again and be managed by the typical frumpy, incompetent managers that are the majority.

Always found it interesting that the Susie Sunshines in nursing wouldn't lift a finger to help others while touting how much they "love" nursing. Had a 445 lb patient. I asked for help to change his bed...NOT ONE person would help. Team work is garbage...whoever gets the heffers is stuck. The patient had a trach cause he was so huge his lung capacity was diminished. When others needed help, I gave it. Never again do I want to work with a "passing of the baton" BS shift to shift or where I have to rely on phony people who speak of team work but are nowhere to be found when it's needed. Call me anything...just don't EVER call me nurse wannabe.

Plumber, HVAC tech, electrician....all pay GREAT...and are less stress and strife than nursing. I personally wish I would have started my own business in a trade OR mortuary science. Fields that have millions of people in them are often taken for granted and degraded...like nursing. Taking a different path would likely lead to feeling success in multiple ways, unlike nursing which makes you feel "used" instead of appreciated.

Spot-on Feelix!

Nursing has been degraded to a waitress with CPR role thanks to hospitals marketing themselves as hotels with chandeliers and player pianos in the lobbies. Patients then visualize nurses as their personal concierge. There are many DECENT fields for women these days. Explore them. They offer sanity and respect much beyond this putrid field. Nursing needs an overhaul...has for the last 50 years. This field seems to keep the darkest side of the female gender (miserable, nasty, petty, mentally disturbed)...especially in management.

Ohio NP: Spot-on! I'm thankful for the knowledge from nursing...it keeps me away from conventional medicine. Also glad there are many career paths for women that are exponentially better than wiping butts which is really most of what the job entails [no pun intended] anymore. Nursing needs to change....desperately. The field is stuck in an era of Theory X management. Have had it with the control freak frumps...seems that's mostly what is in nursing mgmt. Regret the day I stepped foot in this field though I don't beat myself up over it...the vision of the field most of us held before entering it was one of truly offering something to others, feeling good about our work, all while enabling one to make an "average" living. Greed abounds and it's hard to find people who actually like the field except for those who state they're on a mission, it's a "calling" or other fluff.

Everything these days seem to be a scam, doesn't it? Everyone is trying to scam everyone. Actually, not a scam--insurers have the right to know how a vehicle is being used. You're a much higher risk driving more miles, in dense traffic, and scurrying one home to the next. Auto carriers are not charity. Most home health employers do not tell you about the business requirement because they don't care...it's your loss when something occurs. Just one more disparity about nursing versus other professionals. Pulling on the benevolent strings Worker's comp is also involved if you're injured which is also not advantageous for you--you have a slim selection of providers and facilities. I wonder why they don't tell their staff upfront about auto insurance that it requires. Likely because the extra few hundred dollars added to your policy each year would prompt most people to ask the employer for reimbursement. They care about their bottom line, not yours.

amoLucia Specializes in LTC. 4 hours ago 3 hours ago, Retriever5280 said: Home health seemed liked a good alternative until I found out that auto carriers require business insurance cause you're using your car for work. If you're in an accident on work time and you didn't tell your carrier you were using your car for work, they can deny the claim. This was true even way back when I did HH 1980s Yes, Amo, it has been true for quite some time, YET many nurses don't know this and think they're covered UNTIL they're not. Just one more downside to nursing...as if there weren't enough already!

Home health seemed liked a good alternative until I found out that auto carriers require business insurance cause you're using your car for work. If you're in an accident on work time and you didn't tell your carrier you were using your car for work, they can deny the claim.

The player pianos and chandeliers in hospital lobbies don't help either, offering an impression to the public that nurses are concierge service. We've now been denigrated to waitresses with CPR. I don't mind helping people; I do mind disabling the abled. When a hospital has a unit with a doorbell with mandatory twice daily back and foot massages AND personal chef, I really question this "field" and am confused as to if this is healthcare or a hospital wanting to be the Hilton. Of course, the patients on that unit pay above and beyond as they are the upper class in the community. I think nurses working that unit really need to question if they're in nursing or "guest services". Is nursing a profession or coffee, tea or me? Makes one wonder.

Many excellent people have left nursing due to the pompous martyrs in the field. Nursing seems stuck in 1950, with managers that believe strongly in Theory X management in which you work from a stance of everyone is lazy and trying to get out of work. A nurse passed out one day on my unit after missing lunch and OF COURSE NO BREAKS. We gave her orange juice from the patient's frig and were reprimanded for taking it from the patient supply. Wow, the frumpy nurse manager with her idiot thinking had no problem discounting the nurse. Having worked in another career field before this one it was clear my business mind wouldn't be accepted in this nun-like field. It's time for nursing to grow up, get a business mind, and get rid of the nancy nurses who "answered a calling". Whatever called them was a mis dial as they are not representative of anything other than major psych diagnoses.

SPOT ON Leonardo. Many of us do "get it" but there are ALWAYS the few who tout their disdain for those who speak up as going against the "calling" or "dedication" or other nonsensical junk.

Just saw listing for travel CNAs and medical assistants. Interesting.

Ohio NP: I never recommend this field to anyone I like--LOL. If I had all to do over again, I wouldn't touch this field. Happy for the knowledge from it, but think it has little pay for what's expected and much struggle and strife from horrendous managers. Like fields that have progressed and gotten out of the 1950s. This one is stuck with Theory X managers who pounce on the most minute issues and are petty, unhappy blobs. Tired of the idiots, as well as administrators who sit perched in their offices, dictating to the rest of us how much we should prize patient care as our life's mission. Glad to be the age I am and am thrilled women have many choices and do not have to be stuck in disrespected fields like this one.