Would you advise anyone to get into nursing?

RNDude1 · Feb 28, 2011

I graduated nine months ago after a long career in both radio and print journalism. I chose nursing for the career reliability it offered and because I wanted to help people.

Would I choose nursing again? Probably not. For the first time in my life, I'm working "a job." Not a career I feel good about, or take pleasure in partaking in. I desparately miss my J-job.

I wonder: how many new grads are disillusioned after meeting the "real" world?

annister · Feb 28, 2011

As much as I hate to admit it, I often find myself discouraging those who ask from going into nursing. I also find that not much I could say will have much impact on someone who is dead set on anything.

With nursing, as well as with any job, I like to ask the person pursuing it what they believe the job entails, and what their motivation for doing it is. I provide facts as well as my personal encounters in nursing, in addition to things I was unaware of before actually becoming a nurse that I would have appreciated knowing beforehand. I always encourage anyone interested in becoming a nurse to shadow a nurse and/or thoroughly explore the realities of the job before making an absolute decision for or against it.

Brian, ASN, RN · Mar 1, 2011

everyone reading this thread, please note:

the original poster (op) of this thread has been banned. this person has registered multiple times under several different accounts and has spammed several threads with the same message over time which is clearly against our terms of service.

people who have an axe to grind, or who love to just start threads to be controversial and troll to evoke, agitate and disrupt and continue to break our rules do not add any value to allnurses.com and our discussions. sorry, we did not catch this earlier.

please note, this has nothing to do with this users dislike of the nursing profession, but everything to do with trolling behavior and multiple accounts and not abiding to our terms which is disruptive to everyone.

so please take this into consideration when reading into the ops posts.

thanks for your attention. carry on.

mkahnlpn · Mar 1, 2011

I graduated nine months ago after a long career in both radio and print journalism. I chose nursing for the career reliability it offered and because I wanted to help people.
Would I choose nursing again? Probably not. For the first time in my life, I'm working "a job." Not a career I feel good about, or take pleasure in partaking in. I desparately miss my J-job.
I wonder: how many new grads are disillusioned after meeting the "real" world?

I am! I am!

Nursing at a LTC care facility is SOOO much different! I want to help people, and to tuck them in at night, and tell them "its going to be okay." I want to give them their medicine and let them drink their drink of choice to wash it down, and not rush them. BUT I CANT! I am too understaffed and rushed to do that!

I am new, and hopefully my career does get better, but at this point in time, I would NOT suggest nursing to anyone! Just my two cents....

netglow, ASN, RN · Mar 1, 2011

I don't see a thing wrong with this thread - not to say something might reveal in it's future, just that I think, I want to have access to it ALL. I decide what I want to continue reading, or not. Big girl here.

@Brian, not to worry. So many of us have BS radars, really we do.

Actually this topic is very common due to the current nursing situation. Some posters have commented on other threads that they remember better times when nursing was a totally different profession and that it was reflected on this very board, by the absence of so many posts desperate for advice on how to navigate God-awful circumstances.

I want to know the bad. I want to know the good. I want to talk about the bad. I want to talk about the good. As I've said before, one cannot change one into the other and still call oneself honest. BUT, if one walks in with eyes wide open, maybe they can navigate around/or out of the bad, before it consumes them? All of this (not this thread in particular), but you all know what I refer to, is grown up talk. This, is nursing. Hide it and this board is a farce.

I begin to get concerned when I am kept from seeing one or the other...

Brian, ASN, RN · Mar 2, 2011

Sorry, I messed up and didn't actually ban the OP at first (late night mistake). I cleaned up some of the post from the confusion. There is no doubt that the OP is a troll with multiple accounts, so the ban was not a mistake. We are keeping this thread open.

The topic is not taboo in any way. We just don't tolerate trolls abusing the rules. This is not in any way a censure, but merely an attempt to keep the trolls at bay and to keep the user experience rich.

Sorry for the mixup.

sunnycalifRN · Mar 2, 2011

Sure, I'd do nursing again and I did advise my son to go into nursing and he's a full-time flight nurse and still works part-time in ICU.

Yes, jobs are tight right now but as other posters have said, the tight job market is not just for nursing. Doctors, engineers, teachers, accountants, MBA's, contractors, lawyers . . . everyone is experiencing difficulty finding employment. And, unfortunately, it may be many years before things "pick up".

SnowShoeRN · Mar 2, 2011

The Original poster (OP) of this thread has been banned. This person has registered multiple times under several different accounts and has spammed several threads with the same message over time which is clearly against our Terms of Service.
People who have an axe to grind, or who love to just start threads to be controversial and troll to evoke, agitate and disrupt and continue to break our rules do not add any value to allnurses.com and our discussions. Sorry, we did not catch this earlier.

I was wondering about that. Being that she seems to have a very poor attitude in all her posts and her name was registered only 2 days before she started this thread. Thanks for that.