Top 15 Reasons NOT to go into Nursing

[Crystal112]

If you were to make reasons to not go into nursing, what would they be?

When I interviewed a nurse, his number one reason was MONEY.

1. Money

What are some additional reasons?

[EDNURSE20, BSN]

Piss poor money

*** hours, nights weekends and holidays

rude doctors with large egos

management without medical knowledge enforcing dumb policies

co workers that are lazy and rude and complain about everything

pt demanding everything. Treating nurses with no respect

dealing with a lot of ‘gross’ things

high stress

short staffing

most days are exhausting. Days off are for relaxing not having energy to do anything else.

Stupid amount of unnecessary paper work

never feeling good enough. Once you get a job as a new grad and get 1 year experienc, you need to move to a desired floor like Ed or icu, or get you masters degree. Or become a np, cns, educator, management. So on and so on.

Dealing with difficult situations daily cancer diagnoses. Death. Pt self harm and over doses. Truma like stabbing ect.

Turns out I can only think Of 13 reasons

[Guest757854]

I 100% dislike the incivility and horozintal violence.

[L-ICURN, BSN, RN]

Lateral violence

The high school cheerleader mentality

Hospitals don't care if you want to learn. You're just labor to them.

You must follow the status quo

MBA's who enact ridiculous policies

Rude, arrogant doctors

Politics of departments. I don't have time to figure out the hierarchy.

The shrinking of nonbedside jobs

The money

Management members who haven't seen the bedside in 10 or more years.

Restrictive insurance when working for a hospital. They want you to get healthcare where your coworkers can see your records. Nope.

The nursing shortage isn't what people make it out to be. It's really a shortage of facilities that actually hire the number of staff needed.

Ageism.

[guest974915]

1 hour ago, L-ICURN said:

Lateral violence

The high school cheerleader mentality

Hospitals don't care if you want to learn. You're just labor to them.

You must follow the status quo

MBA's who enact ridiculous policies

Rude, arrogant doctors

Politics of departments. I don't have time to figure out the hierarchy.

The shrinking of nonbedside jobs

The money

Management members who haven't seen the bedside in 10 or more years.

Restrictive insurance when working for a hospital. They want you to get healthcare where your coworkers can see your records. Nope.

The nursing shortage isn't what people make it out to be. It's really a shortage of facilities that actually hire the number of staff needed.

Ageism.

exactly^^^