I'm a housekeeping for a hospital. I've been a housekeeping for 7 months while finishing my prerequisites for nursing school. I enjoy my job sometimes,but sometimes I feel as if I settled. So I enrolled in a CNA class ( I have previous experience, I am just not certified). Our supervisors already make us feel unappreciated, because in the hospital setting hospital keepers are seen as the lowest of the low ( trash people, maids, ect). I work in the ICU unit and I clean rooms and nurses stations. I enjoy my area, because I want to be an ICU nurse, but I'm not treated at all like a human at my job. Nurses have constantly walked over, have not acknowledged me ( a simple good morning or hello), I've had doors shut in my face as I was going in the rooms to clean, they have thrown things on the ground and come find me to pick it up. There were times a nurse would take their frustration out of me, because I'm doing my job and not trying to be in their way, but I'm just annoying them. The nurses harass the housekeepers more than our supervisors and it's just not pleasant. I have just felt really bad in the position that I'm currently in and I look at the nurses, that I want to be and they just treat the people who helped them out like they don't exist. It made me not want to be a nurse, because I feel they think they are better than the position I have. I have spoken to some and they are shocked that I am a student and have been pursuing nursing for the past 3 years, but the treatment is never changed. I don't want to be in a position and overlook everyone who does their job in the hospital,because I have found out that housekeeping and other positions really do hold the hospital.
So I tried other careers and tried to apply to different colleges to step away from nursing, but I didn't get in.
I guess what I am saying is that, I almost stop being a nurse because I don't want overlook people in general or just treated other people like crap.
