nessa_chambers

Haha I get you. The thing is I'm very thin skinned but knowing this will probably prepare me for what's to come. I just hope I'm not one of those to who leave it. Anyways, thanks for your advice I just think now is the most important time to think about stuff like this but nursing is something I really want to do so I'll just keep focusing on the pros from now on

Thank you for your comment. Is it ok if I ask how nursing as been for you?

Hey guys. I'm a student nurse who will be starting nursing school next week. I'm been excited about it since forever but recently I'm starting to wonder if I've made the right choice in choosing nursing as my career. Reason being that I've come up on a couple videos and stories about the nursing career overall. One of those being the whole "NURSES EATING THIER YOUNG" trend. This I've come to discover causes alot of good nurses to quit and seek another career or become depressed and miserable. This was proven as a research was conducted which shows that nurses are twice as likely to be depressed compared to the general public. While I may believe that this is the career specially chosen for me I can't help but think twice about it. Do I really want to be doing something for the rest of my life that is going to make me feel miserable, depressed, helpless and not good enough? I've also come to learn that teamwork and empowerment is very uncommon as alot of nurses tend to bring eachother down for the sake of being praised by those above them, so the second you mess up there are those waiting to report you. All of this makes me wonder if this is really the case and it is kinda scary. I want to be happy with my career and that's the picture nursing painted when I applied to nursing school, pictures of happy smiling nurses but now this picture is slowly starting to change. Any advice?