Who actually likes nursing??

cstrazis · Dec 23, 2012

Nursing is the best choice I have ever made in my life, I love every moment [well, not every moment.] I didn't get into it because of the money or job security (though these things are great too) but I do it because of the science, the rewards, the beautiful experiences I am allowed to have while caring for my patients. All in all, searching for this answer from strangers is silly- you are you, look within and decide what it is that is that you fear, look forward to, what do you know you love, what do you know you not....what does this all mean to you, and what other things could be causing this apprehension other than nursing itself.

pronurse45 · Dec 23, 2012

I love nursing in general, because it gives you a different kind of fulfillment whenever you get to help other people...really! Some may raise their eyebrows upon hearing this, but this is really how I feel whenever I perform my duty as a nurse! You'll get to learn nursing more as you get to know it better! There may be some downsides (which is why a lot of people are venting) but, I think that's just normal so don't get discouraged... If it's really your passion to become a nurse, then don't listen to what others are saying...

VioletKaliLPN, LPN · Dec 23, 2012

I have not read every post since my last reply.

I love LTC, that is what I do, it 'feels' right. Acute hospital Nursing would not be my preferred field, and as a future RN I intend to remain in LTC.

sharpeimom · Dec 23, 2012

I definitely chose the right profession! Until I became disabled, I loved my job -- just not everything connected with it. I was a psych nurse and worked in a state psych hospital that was a century old. Aside

from the usual state-related bureaucratic crap, much of what frustrated me about my job was connected with

the creaky old buildings and underground tunnels that connected them together.

Most of the patients there had either been there for years or sometimes decades when a mental health diagnosis invariably meant a life long commitment or were confined within the forensic buildings. Long gone

were the days when the hospital's acres supported a working farm, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, egg laying hens, etc. They all went when the state in its all knowing wisdom decided the work the physically able

patients did with these projects was demeaning and unfair. Actually, participation was totally voluntary and the workers were paid a small amount which enabled many of them who had been long abandoned by their families to purchase canteen items.

One thing that was new when I began working there was meds in 1000 pill bottles instead of unit dose. A major annoyance, but I adjusted. Every job has annoyances. Some petty and some intolerable. Some of the

people we work with go on to become good friends, a few are difficult, and a handful are true PITAs. You just have to decide what you can put up with and which people/things/policies will drive you nuts and go from there. No job is perfect, no matter how perfect other people's jobs seem to be, they have the same irritants.

Just gift wrapped in different paper.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Dec 24, 2012

I love nursing. Nothing else so enjoyable that I can think of would have put me in the company of so many smart, funny, collegial women (mostly women) and men for decades, given me a license to practice autonomously, teach students to come along after me, help grow and develop a new specialty, and let me have my own business as I do now.

squatmunkie_RN · Dec 25, 2012

Its hard to say I like when when I'm treated so badly at the hospital I work at. When I have a good day (getting rarer and rarer) I like it. But when I have family breathing down my neck, mgmnt that doesn't give a damn about the nurses, 12 hour days when I'm unable to take a lunch...(get home and have a BS of 58) and STILL get ******* at I despise nursing and wish I had done something else.

Ntheboat2 · Dec 25, 2012

I'm in psych too and I love my job. I never dread going to work. Seriously.