call it the holiday blues or what you will... im definitely not in a good mood... so i come to this website to find some content to distract me... and lo and behold... something that does.......
to all the nurses out there (students included) who continually chastize others for being in the field for monetary gain.... get off your high horses and quit with the self-suffering martyr b*s*....
urgh!!! no one.... and i mean no one would be in this career for free... so sue me if moneys a great motivator... it may not be the biggest bucks, but it sure beats a lot of jobs out there...
hey how about you do it for free and then? yeah... i thought not..... got bills to pay huh?
for the record - there ARE people out there who claim that teachers are in the field "for the money."
it's a common saying that "you shouldn't be a teacher if you don't love it" or "you can't do this for the money."
it doesn't mean anyone should teach for free - just that you should do something else that pays equally well if you DON'T love it. you shouldn't mess with people's lives (their health or their children) if you're doing it JUST for the money. that's all.
Nursing is both an art and a science, as one of my theory books say. You can't focus on just the art or just the science. As far as the motivation issue, it doesn't matter to me why people get into nursing, all that matters to me is that the patient is taking care of. Stay current in any new information, and keep learning on the job an off. Show competence in the clinical setting, an not just do the bare mininums. I'm a student nurse, im in it not because of a the media driven "shortage", but because I have a passion to care for people AND because of the science of the field, and to provide for my family. Someone's signature says 'patients don't care how much you care, but about what you know.'
Merry Christmas!!!:tree:
the quote/signature that got me was "patients don't care how much you KNOW until they know how much you CARE."
i agree. money can't make you care. you CAN care and make good money.
backatit2
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for the record - there ARE people out there who claim that teachers are in the field "for the money."
it's a common saying that "you shouldn't be a teacher if you don't love it" or "you can't do this for the money."
it doesn't mean anyone should teach for free - just that you should do something else that pays equally well if you DON'T love it. you shouldn't mess with people's lives (their health or their children) if you're doing it JUST for the money. that's all.