I feel like everywhere I go people are expressing their hate for nursing rather than their love. I want to go into nursing, and I want to love it. WHY does everyone (almost) hate it so much? Is it really that bad? Can someone express their love for it? I would really enjoy hearing why you love your nursing job.
Personally I could never work in a nursing home, but my goal is to work in the OB/NICU or the ER.
It is hard as a new grad to get into the "areas" we see ourselves wanting to work, but it's not impossible! I was able to get a job as a new grad in the ER dept. out in California and being from Wyoming I had no connections out here.
You're still a student so that's great! You have time to build up complimentary experiences. I knew I was interested in healthcare and started working as a CNA before nursing school and then during college I got my EMT license and started working as a tech in the ER. In the summers try to work in a healthcare setting and or try to land an internship. Sometimes the internships even pay! Like the Mayo Clinic, I was there for 12 weeks in the summer. But start looking right now for them most applications are due this and next month! I would say start building your professional network and keep in touch with people. And the nurses and people that help you send a hand written personalized thank you card. They will become amazing references later in your job search :)
During nursing school I did notice that a lot of the Nurses in areas we did our clinicals appeared not happy. But i think that was more because it was med/surg where they had 5+ patients and then they find out in the morning they also have a student. They are were really over worked.
The environment they're working in plays big into their happiness but I have also had experiences where the nurses had reasonable work loads and they were so much happier! And happy to have a student lurk behind them watching every move they make :) Also when I was working in the ER as a tech it totally depends on the day! Sometimes your job will suck and it was be very hard.
I love working as a nurse because I feel like I'm the best version of myself. It's an amazing feeling when you get into the zone and see what you've accomplished and how you can help and effect others health and life. I feel proud when I tell people I'm a nurse.
It is hard as a new grad to get into the "areas" we see ourselves wanting to work, but it's not impossible! I was able to get a job as a new grad in the ER dept. out in California and being from Wyoming I had no connections out here.
You're still a student so that's great! You have time to build up complimentary experiences. I knew I was interested in healthcare and started working as a CNA before nursing school and then during college I got my EMT license and started working as a tech in the ER. In the summers try to work in a healthcare setting and or try to land an internship. Sometimes the internships even pay! Like the Mayo Clinic, I was there for 12 weeks in the summer. But start looking right now for them most applications are due this and next month! I would say start building your professional network and keep in touch with people. And the nurses and people that help you send a hand written personalized thank you card. They will become amazing references later in your job search :)
During nursing school I did notice that a lot of the Nurses in areas we did our clinicals appeared not happy. But i think that was more because it was med/surg where they had 5+ patients and then they find out in the morning they also have a student. They are were really over worked.
The environment they're working in plays big into their happiness but I have also had experiences where the nurses had reasonable work loads and they were so much happier! And happy to have a student lurk behind them watching every move they make :) Also when I was working in the ER as a tech it totally depends on the day! Sometimes your job will suck and it was be very hard.
I love working as a nurse because I feel like I'm the best version of myself. It's an amazing feeling when you get into the zone and see what you've accomplished and how you can help and effect others health and life. I feel proud when I tell people I'm a nurse.
Thank you!! I got my CNA license 3 weeks ago and had an interview for a position in the family maternity center a couple days ago, I am hoping I get it. I really want to love my job, or at least like it/enjoy it. I don't want to dread going into work everyday and feel like I wasted money on a degree that I dislike. Thank you for your response, it was what I was looking for. I understand that there are going to be bad days, but I just needed a little verse of how it is not all bad. :)
Good Luck with getting the job :) that experience will be so good for you!!!
When you get to work as a CNA before nursing school it gives you the best insider look at what nurses do and give you an idea if that's something you see yourself loving. It's good to critically evaluate the best days you have there as well as the worst. Make notes and see how your interests change overtime and why they do. You'll be so prepared once you get to nursing school and you'll get so much more out of it. It's so great that you're thinking so far ahead and questioning these things. I think happiness/contentment is one of the most important things in life :) you got this!
I give OB nurses major props I could not do that job as well as they do, that and peds are like the only areas that totally freak me out lol those nurses are amazing at what they do!
Good Luck with getting the job :) that experience will be so good for you!!!
When you get to work as a CNA before nursing school it gives you the best insider look at what nurses do and give you an idea if that's something you see yourself loving. It's good to critically evaluate the best days you have there as well as the worst. Make notes and see how your interests change overtime and why they do. You'll be so prepared once you get to nursing school and you'll get so much more out of it. It's so great that you're thinking so far ahead and questioning these things. I think happiness/contentment is one of the most important things in life :) you got this!
I give OB nurses major props I could not do that job as well as they do, that and peds are like the only areas that totally freak me out lol those nurses are amazing at what they do!
Haha thanks!! Do you love your ED job?? I have considered that as well :)
Also, how was nursing school for you if you don't mind me asking?
"Prenursing student" does that mean you haven't been accepted into a nursing programme, yet?
Ive worked post partum, never again, mum and babe are each a patient, so some shifts you start with six and finish with ten. Paperwork is huge. Cultural expectations require UN level knowledge, Somali, Haitian, and Hutterite in one assignment. All of who have very different expectations.
Aged patients are the primary users of healthcare. And LTC sends a lot in through emerg. No escaping them. When gynie is full, it's not unheard of to send patients into empty beds in post partum, and yes, it's older women
I love my job, (I fell in love with emergency medicine) I'm still very green at it so it can get very overwhelming quickly as you can imagine. I learn so much stuff every single day and on my days off I spend reviewing labs, medications, assessments, procedures and hospital policies. Even though it is probably more stressful than any other feeling right now I have my moments that feel amazing like when you get flashback in your first IV on a coding a patient :) some of the staff are very supportive/patient with me and others favor the tough love way of motivating me.
I know that as a new nurse it'll probably take a year at my job before I feel like I can relax a little at work. I can tell that the nurse I am today is much improved from the nurse 3 weeks ago and so much better than the nurse I was when I graduated! Improvement feels great and reminds me that I can do this. But even on my worst days (I've had some horrible ones, where I cry at home) I'm still happy I am a nurse. And the second best thing with nursing is you can change departments and types of nursing until you find your "home"
Nursing school was a mixture of feelings, I feel like one of the hardest parts was just getting into it! There are a ton of hoops to jump through so before you apply give yourself like 6 months to gather all the necessary things. For my example nursing program we needed updated vaccinations & proof of all of them, transcripts of prereqs, letters of recommendation (some have to be from professors, so start getting to know them), HESI exam score, background checks, fingerprints, drug test and an active CNA license. Trying to obtain all those things in like 2 months would be impossible. So make sure you dot your i's and cross your t's.
I thought most of the classes we're good, some of the classes felt like a waste of time and others were challenging and some were fun :) you'll learn a ton of information in nursing school, like so much!! But keep in mind that 80% of the learning to be a nurse will happen during clinicals and during your first job. So don't get discouraged about nursing if you don't like nursing school. It's suppose to be challenging. I'm glad I'm done with it :) I felt like working in the ER during school help things sink in better for me because I could see what I was learning happening around me. So it's great that you're already trying to gain employment in a healthcare setting.
One frustrating thing in nursing school was when you're learning the skill sets and you learn them from the book. My instructors would test us by the book but during demonstrations would say you would never do this in the real world, which I found frustrating... Then why would they teach us it that way? Well I now know for one it's how you will be tested on the NCLEX and it's good to have that base when you preform it for the first time on a real person.
I love my job, (I fell in love with emergency medicine) I'm still very green at it so it can get very overwhelming quickly as you can imagine. I learn so much stuff every single day and on my days off I spend reviewing labs, medications, assessments, procedures and hospital policies. Even though it is probably more stressful than any other feeling right now I have my moments that feel amazing like when you get flashback in your first IV on a coding a patient :) some of the staff are very supportive/patient with me and others favor the tough love way of motivating me.
I know that as a new nurse it'll probably take a year at my job before I feel like I can relax a little at work. I can tell that the nurse I am today is much improved from the nurse 3 weeks ago and so much better than the nurse I was when I graduated! Improvement feels great and reminds me that I can do this. But even on my worst days (I've had some horrible ones, where I cry at home) I'm still happy I am a nurse. And the second best thing with nursing is you can change departments and types of nursing until you find your "home"
Nursing school was a mixture of feelings, I feel like one of the hardest parts was just getting into it! There are a ton of hoops to jump through so before you apply give yourself like 6 months to gather all the necessary things. For my example nursing program we needed updated vaccinations & proof of all of them, transcripts of prereqs, letters of recommendation (some have to be from professors, so start getting to know them), HESI exam score, background checks, fingerprints, drug test and an active CNA license. Trying to obtain all those things in like 2 months would be impossible. So make sure you dot your i's and cross your t's.
I thought most of the classes we're good, some of the classes felt like a waste of time and others were challenging and some were fun :) you'll learn a ton of information in nursing school, like so much!! But keep in mind that 80% of the learning to be a nurse will happen during clinicals and during your first job. So don't get discouraged about nursing if you don't like nursing school. It's suppose to be challenging. I'm glad I'm done with it :) I felt like working in the ER during school help things sink in better for me because I could see what I was learning happening around me. So it's great that you're already trying to gain employment in a healthcare setting.
One frustrating thing in nursing school was when you're learning the skill sets and you learn them from the book. My instructors would test us by the book but during demonstrations would say you would never do this in the real world, which I found frustrating... Then why would they teach us it that way? Well I now know for one it's how you will be tested on the NCLEX and it's good to have that base when you preform it for the first time on a real person.
Wow, you are awesome! Thank you for those positive words! You motivated me and made me feel so much better about my current situation with school and such, as well as the career itself. Sometimes all I need is that one person to express it.
I feel like everywhere I go people are expressing their hate for nursing rather than their love....WHY does everyone (almost) hate it so much?
They don't all hate it so much, it's the Anna Karenina principle:
[h=1]All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.â€[/h]What I mean is that there could be very few possible threads starting "Why i love my job" as what could be said day after day? Although there are some out there. However, there could potentially be many, many more threads of people trying to work through any problems they are having. It's a bit like dating and relationships, I guess. You don't tend to hear people discussing their incredibly happy marriages for hours over a few glasses of wine.
I don't think you were looking for such a literal answer though so i will just say that despite some bad days I do love my job too! :). Good luck with your training.
I am from the UK but it sounds like we share similar pressures.
I feel like everywhere I go people are expressing their hate for nursing rather than their love. I want to go into nursing, and I want to love it. WHY does everyone (almost) hate it so much? Is it really that bad? Can someone express their love for it? I would really enjoy hearing why you love your nursing job.
Personally I could never work in a nursing home, but my goal is to work in the OB/NICU or the ER.
Thanks!
- Super desperate pre-nursing student venting
I love the shifts where I do next to nothing.
I love the pay.
Everything else... do I really have to do it? *sigh*
When you have the wisdom that I have, you will understand, my young shrew.
"Too bad " is not the correct response. You need to advocate NOW, before you get into the field.
I was just saying that it is unfortunate that a lot of nurses are not really given the time because lack of staff and sit with their patients like they used to. I didn't know there was a right answer, I was just expressing my empathy.
I was just saying that it is unfortunate that a lot of nurses are not really given the time because lack of staff and sit with their patients like they used to. I didn't know there was a right answer, I was just expressing my empathy.
If you get into nursing, you will realize that empathy is a hindrance. I am not chastising you. I am trying to warn you.
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It is hard as a new grad to get into the "areas" we see ourselves wanting to work, but it's not impossible! I was able to get a job as a new grad in the ER dept. out in California and being from Wyoming I had no connections out here.
You're still a student so that's great! You have time to build up complimentary experiences. I knew I was interested in healthcare and started working as a CNA before nursing school and then during college I got my EMT license and started working as a tech in the ER. In the summers try to work in a healthcare setting and or try to land an internship. Sometimes the internships even pay! Like the Mayo Clinic, I was there for 12 weeks in the summer. But start looking right now for them most applications are due this and next month! I would say start building your professional network and keep in touch with people. And the nurses and people that help you send a hand written personalized thank you card. They will become amazing references later in your job search :)
During nursing school I did notice that a lot of the Nurses in areas we did our clinicals appeared not happy. But i think that was more because it was med/surg where they had 5+ patients and then they find out in the morning they also have a student. They are were really over worked.
The environment they're working in plays big into their happiness but I have also had experiences where the nurses had reasonable work loads and they were so much happier! And happy to have a student lurk behind them watching every move they make :) Also when I was working in the ER as a tech it totally depends on the day! Sometimes your job will suck and it was be very hard.
I love working as a nurse because I feel like I'm the best version of myself. It's an amazing feeling when you get into the zone and see what you've accomplished and how you can help and effect others health and life. I feel proud when I tell people I'm a nurse.