I honestly believe that most people don't know what their getting themselves into when they try to pursue a career in nursing. Like seriously!
Today, I asked my closest friend why she wants to be a nurse (she's pre-nursing with me) and she said, "Because of the money, the hot male nurses, and because I like babies".
Lol, she also wants to get her CNA license next spring because she witnessed the birth of her neice and an actual CNA woman who helped "deliver the baby" told her she could be that in just 3 to 5 weeks. I really just wished that woman would've told her that she'll first probably end up working in a nursing home until then some. So now my friend is saving up to become one.
I'm not going to tell her the truth about nursing though, only because she's a grown woman and is capable of making her own decisions and learning about nursing on her own like I had to.
Although, I am secretly steering her to get her ADN first before she goes in debt trying to get her BSN, blindly.
I feel your pain as well. Been married for 32 years to a man who knows how much chewing noises repulse me, and still chews AND talks with his mouth open. He also refuses to floss in the bathroom, and plops his fanny right on the bed next to me.
He has no idea how much I love him-homicidal thoughts are repressed on a daily basis.lol.
OCNRN63, RN
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Oh, man. Thanks a lot. Now that song is going to be stuck in my head.