10 years or longer in nursing?

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I try to read allnurses many times a week and this week has me very depressed and wondering if I have chosen the wrong field. I'm hoping to be accepted into nursing school for this next Fall but now I am wondering if I should rethink this if I am accepted. I'm curious to know how many of you are still happy about your career choice and if your unhappy, why is that.

Specializes in pedi, pedi psych,dd, school ,home health.

Gradutated the first time with an lpn in 1981...2000 with ADn; 2007 with BSN.... still love being a nurse; it is who i am not just what i do. Dealing with extraneous bull excrement happens with every job; you just have to learn how to deal with it.

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Dealing with extraneous bull excrement happens with every job; you just have to learn how to deal with it.

Boy is THAT ever true. :madface:

steph

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Specializes in Rehab, Infection, LTC.

13 years here and still loving it.

it's the administration that i cant stand. nurses are patient focused. the company is money focused so never the two shall agree.

but those days when you walk thru the door and here "where've you been? i've missed you" from patients and the "you saved my loved ones life, thank you" from others, the smiles you get when you teach a patient how to be in control of their own physical destiny, the fun it is to do procedures and the pus....thats what i live for!

especially the pus....

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Been a nurse 23 years. Loved it when I started it, after so many years, I hated it. Went back to school, got my BSN switched "careers" to school nursing and love it again. That's the beauty of nursing, if you're happy, stay where you are, if you're not, you have nearly unlimited options.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

28 years for me, and I have no intention of leaving nursing.

I've worked med/surg, oncology, camp nursing, volunteering in Bangladesh and India, stepdown, LTC, and more than a decade in ER. Nurse's Aide before that. Now I am also teaching, did clinicals, now classroom as I finish my masters.

Remember, lots of us come here to vent with sympathetic and understanding folks, don't need to brag or celebrate as much as find support on tough days. But there are positive threads too!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
and keep in mind that for many of us an is the only place we can vent, secure in the knowledge that at least some of our fellow members will know where we're coming from and not frespond to the statement that every single one of our patients today should have received high velocity intracranial lead therapy with "but they're sick! i though nurses were meant to be nice." it's not all bad for all of us all the time!

good luck with your plans :)

high velocity intracranial lead therapy..........that is freaking hilarious!!!

:yeah::nmbrn::roll:rotfl:

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Specializes in Labor & Delivery, Med-surg.

It's been 30 years for me and I can't imagine doing anything that I love as much as this! When you get bored take on a new specialty, take courses, change locations. There is so many different places to do nursing. I did burn out once but I find that studying and keeping on the cutting edge and switching specialties renews you back to your initial love for nursing. Nursing is endlessly versatile and I am delighted to have chosen this career path! There's nothing quite like it!

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

31 years, lots of experience in lots of different areas and love it even more now than when I started. Has given me a good stable income and some great stories to tell.

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Specializes in psych. rehab nursing, float pool.

30 years and counting. My choice of nursing does not make me unhappy at all. The only thing I have any control over is my own attitude. That saves me on the rough days. Nursing has been good to me, in return I give it the best that I have. Sure there are days I want to gripe, and there are days I hum happily. I could not imagine a better field to be in. Burn out, only once changed my direction moved cross country started in a different speciality. How great is that lol

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I am a second career RN. I've been doing this for 13 years now and wish I'd started sooner. Good luck!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

going on 32 years and still happy.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

Love hearing all the positive responses! Thanks to all of you!

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