Registered Nurses: Do you like your jobs?

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lovemyjoblandd

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Specializes in L and D.

Little background on me: I'm a L&D nurse that started out with a year in Med-Surg in the Army.

Has your opinion of people changed at all, do you still have faith in humanity so to speak after dealing with so many types of people? I usually enjoy my patients, but I have a hard time with social welfare and seeing a 20 year old without a job on medicaid coming in to have her 5th baby that I am having to pay for. I have to work 40-50 hours a week, get taxed to death, and don't get nearly enough time with my family. Why should you get to stay home with yours and I have to pay the bill? I am, however, a professional and regardless of my personal opinion I always give my very best to each and every patient I have. Whether it's a methodone addict about to deliver her 4th drug addicted baby or whether it's a millionaire princess. Everyone is the same when they walk through these doors. No matter what my opinion of the human race is, I set it aside and give the best and most compassionate care I can. Can you do that?

Do you still maintain your compassion for others? at work, yes. outside of work, not so much. But that's my personality. Nothing was given to me. I worked for every single thing I have. One must earn my compassion.

Do you get depressed at all from the circumstances? Clinically depressed-no I don't think so. Frustrated, annoyed, irritated, blue, down- yes.

Why do you keep going back? same as the rest, as I have bills to pay and a family to support. If i became a million tonight, I would not go back to work tomorrow. I would become a full time aquarist :) In short, I have found that I do not love nursing. Maybe it's just been the jobs I've had or the facilities I've worked at. Maybe it's because I've only did hospital work. I hate the long hours, the charting, the meetings, and the personal bane of my existance: simulation. The stress of this job constantly wears me down. I never want to do anything or go anywhere on my days off. I am going back to school for my masters degree as a family NP, and I hope to get a clinic job working some normal hours, not working every stupid holiday, and spending some quality time with my family. If i happen to hate that too, then I have no idea what I will do. What I do know is that I will not staff nursing for much longer in my life. It's not for me.

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