Years ago when I first became a nurse I was so proud to be called a 'nurse' I would have shouted it across the roof tops. The reason I came into nursing is very old fashioned and you are now criticized for wanting to help people and care.
Today if you admit you are a RN who came into nursing because you care about people and want to help them it is almost like you are blaspheming.
I read that only nurses who came into the profession for financial and career reasons, or because they lost their first job and have decided nurses is the career for them are the ones who succeed in the profession.
I don't believe it is true I think there is a place for both kinds of nurses, I also don't believe the ones who don't care are the most successful.
In my company you wouldn't get far up the ladder if you said you were in nursing because you are a career RN and that you don't really care about the patient. You have to really want to be a nurse to succeed and it becomes very obvious when you don't care about the patient or want to do the right thing
It is old fashioned to say why I came into nursing 24 years ago, although I didn't come into the profession initially as a career, I have had one heck of a career and have managed to climb the ladder to a dizzy height!
So for all those RN's out there who are frightened to say they came into nursing for reasons of caring or helping people-stand tall and be counted!
I am not saying I am better or worse than any other nurse, I am just saying that nurses take offense if I say this is why I came into nursing
I do say that we all have a place
No. You don't get to play the victim after smearing nurses who don't join nursing for reasons you approve of. Go read the quotes I pulled from your first post. I'll wait.
You stated in a very rambling, convoluted way that nurses who aren't following the angel of mercy theme aren't as successful. That's a hell of a judgment from someone who is crying on about being picked on.
No. You don't get to play the victim after smearing nurses who don't join nursing for reasons you approve of. Go read the quotes I pulled from your first post. I'll wait.
You stated in a very rambling, convoluted way that nurses who aren't following the angel of mercy theme aren't as successful. That's a hell of a judgment from someone who is crying on about being picked on.
I can assure you that I am not crying-neither was I rambling but you can read from what I wrote initially and take from it what you want-afterall everything we write on the internet is open to interpretation
I could interpret from the tone of your reply that you are picking a fight, couldn't I
I can assure you that I am not crying-neither was I rambling but you can read from what I wrote initially and take from it what you want-afterall everything we write on the internet is open to interpretation
I could interpret from the tone of your reply that you are picking a fight, couldn't I
You can interpret tone?
She's disagreeing with you. I thought that was okay.
I can think my patient is the biggest buttclown I'd ever met, but that will not slow me down a bit the minute I think he/she needs care, is not being treated appropriately, needs advocating. I'm not going to go in there and play handmaiden, will not ingratiate myself to them. I don't need to be everyone's saintly mother. But I will be their damned good nurse.
Ok back on topic-No more fighting I enjoy discussions along with the rest of you so my point was and I shall clarify.
I am 'afraid' to be honest about my reasons why I came into nursing because it is deemed that I think I am superior and shouldn't talk about it because it is seen as offensive
I DO think that I work with really great people who come into nursing for their own reasons, and make some great nurses.
I DO NOT think that I am better than anybody else-I DO think that in-spite of me having such archaic reasons for coming into nursing I have still managed to do ok
Ok back on topic-No more fighting I enjoy discussions along with the rest of you so my point was and I shall clarify.
I am 'afraid' to be honest about my reasons why I came into nursing because it is deemed that I think I am superior and shouldn't talk about it because it is seen as offensive
I DO think that I work with really great people who come into nursing for their own reasons, and make some great nurses.
I DO NOT think that I am better than anybody else-I DO think that in-spite of me having such archaic reasons for coming into nursing I have still managed to do ok
Well that's a load different than your first post. Maybe people say you think your superior when you talk about your reasons for nursing because you say things like "they won't get very far with an approach like that" - paraphrase, example only.
Again, refer to the quotes I picked.
I can appreciate nurses of all kinds. I can't appreciate nurses who think they crap Nightingale Glitter.
CountryMomma, ASN, RN
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No. You don't get to play the victim after smearing nurses who don't join nursing for reasons you approve of. Go read the quotes I pulled from your first post. I'll wait.
You stated in a very rambling, convoluted way that nurses who aren't following the angel of mercy theme aren't as successful. That's a hell of a judgment from someone who is crying on about being picked on.