Job Story: I hate nursing to the millionth power....PICU nurse

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I hate nursing school so much and I feel like it's not for me, so I'am going into computer science. thanks for your story.

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I found this site in the same manner as u did by typing, I Hate Nursing. I have spent the last 10yrs of my life, as a nurse, in what I can only describe as soul wrenching torture. I look back at myself, before I became a nurse, and can barely recognize that once confident, assertive, positive, life loving person. I too consider myself a damn good nurse, this is why I agonize over the lack of time I am alotted to safely care for my pts. The businessmen have taken over health care, everything is based on profit. I can no longer do what is asked of me, that being the impossible. I feel for all the nieve, eager, good souls who want to become nurses to make a difference...sigh...the odds are entirely stacked against them. I remember when many older and wiser nurses tried to warn me about the plight of nurses. I believed nurses were supported as advocaters back then, I thought I could change things. I am only 30yrs old btw...I have to leave nursing to fill the shell of my once whole self.

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I hate computer science (I graduate this week)...I was enthused when I started, but imagine yourself sitting in front of a computer 9 hours a day. That's 9 hours a day....minimum. It sucks ass.

I'm also stuck with bills and debt and have no choice but to do the job. I do like computers, but it's a hobby, and the likelihood that you'll do anything interesting is slim if you don't have a master's degree. Otherwise, you'll sit around building business applications which contain the excitement of a common ground squirrel.

[revive]

Well, one thing for sure is that I feel really bad for all of you nurses who wasted almost a quarter of your lives complaining. I wouldn't know how it feels working in those conditions. I guess some people are made for certain jobs. I for one use to be a network engineer and I found it just as bad as you would to nursing. I left and now I am pursuing a different career.. nursing. It can be intimidating hearing stories from veterans in the job. But by the grace of God, I will become a nurse, I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13

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To my sister/fellow nurses- I know how you feel!
I feel the same way. Much love and support to all the discouraged and disillusioned nurses of the world. I especially like the line about "pukey nursing enthusiasm". I know exactly what you are talking about.

[i hate comp sci]

i hate computer science

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pray on revive,i hope it helps when you are driven absoloutely insane with impossible work assignments,family members who are either nuts or think they are @ the waldorf-astoria hotel,mgmt.that doesn't give a good g%&da*#,dr's who write pages of orders,secretaries who don't care if they goof up,assistants who hide all shift or who are openly hostile,coworkers who hope you will make a mistake so you'll go down,ancillary svcs.that are prisoners on work release,you are so tired you can't think straight,heartbreaking situations you can do nothing about ,people with gunshot wounds who have the perp coming in to finish them off and whoever is in the way,low pay,no voice in the nursing process and delivery.i could go on and on.but i only want you yo see there are real and very vexing problems with nursing as it is today.mcrich in alabama

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I'm not even a nurse yet I have another year of school to do..I wanted to "get my feet wet" so I became a nursing aide. It is horrible. I can into the reality 2 days ago I wipe peoples asses for a living. I am at the beck and call of nurses and its awful. Sometimes I get the good nurses who are nice to me other times I get the nasty ones who think they are God because their badge has the letters RN on it.
I agree with PICU nurse about being unable to cope with emotions..I have none and I've only been doing this job for a year.

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Waa Waa. Nursing is better off without a whining baby like you, we have enough of them. I for one just go to work and do my job. I've been a nurse for 3 years, work per doem and make over 100 grand a year. Go make yourself miserable in some other profession.

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Nursing is not for some people. However, there are several opportunities in nursing. I have been a nurse for 8 years. I was scared as hell when I first graduated and I complained a lot primarily out of fear. I have done many different things in my short career to date i.e. endoscopy, OR, med-surg, oncology (certified), research, medical device company consultant, CRA. I have been on both sides of the coin. Sitting at a desk all day is a slow, miserable, unfufilling death. Those who bitch about nursing are simply burnt out and instead of breeding their negativity they should test the waters in everything our profession has to offer. Go into nursing and stay in nursing if you want to use your life to make a difference. If your a truly caring person, and not passive aggressive, then your rewards will be few but nevertheless you will have them. There is nothing kinder then too comfort a patient who is facing death.

To the one who was complaining: good riddance and please go get a job in a bank or at McDonalds. I'm quite certain that you will be full of self loathing and misery there as well.

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[i There is nothing kinder then too comfort a patient who is facing death.

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and there is nothing more frustrating and sad than to only have 10 minutes to toe tag and bag that dead patient because another patient is on there way up to the unit and you are the only nurse who is NOW available to provide nursing care! What's wrong with this picture people?? We are talking about people here not quotas in a factory. We should be given time to regroup after a death! God forbid giving a nurse a reasonable amount of time to deal with the loss of life! It takes an emotional toll on nurses, just as it would any other human being, that just watched a person draw their last breath. How am I supposed to provide emotional suppport to the family (and patient) when I have no comfort to give away? I need it for myself, thanks.

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[ I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

You may just be praying to get out of this sorry profession before you know it. I don't think you should be assuming the nurses on this board are whiners until you put a few hundred shifts under your belt. News flash--- Student nurses still don't know how bad it is yet. I was in another profession for over 20 years before becoming a nurse, and I assumed the old adage "any career is what you make of it - all careers have their good days and bad days, etc.," but I found out that there really is no other profession quite like nursing. The hectic, crazy, nerve wracking days where you go home and can't sleep at night wondering if you forgot some critical thing that could kill a patient or least get you in some serious trouble kind of days are the norm. If you get a nice low-stress day, it is a great blessing. Depends on where you work, but most hospital wards and LTC facilities are extremely stressful places to work. Yes, some people know how to handle the stress better than others, but in my observation the majority of nurses I have worked with are suffering from some sort of depression or anxiety disorder. I'm a Christian too, and believe in the power of prayer as you have mentioned, but you have to realize nurses are a wounded bunch of people. The profession will have to go through some some serious changes if things are ever going to get better. PEACE

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Originally posted by Unregistered
I'm not even a nurse yet I have another year of school to do..I wanted to "get my feet wet" so I became a nursing aide. It is horrible. I can into the reality 2 days ago I wipe peoples asses for a living. I am at the beck and call of nurses and its awful.



I used to work in a nursing home and one of the CNAs told me that the intials C.N.A. stand for "Clean Nasty Asses" LOL. Sorry, just had to share that with you.

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for all the people on this board that blame nursing for them having miserable lives.......get over it. your lives would be miserable with or without nursing. people go into nursing for the wrong reasons. did you think nursing was a glamorous 9-5 job? did you think nurses didn't clean poop or vomit? you complainers act like someone is putting a gun to your head to be a nurse. QUIT. please quit now. i don't want your miserable, complaining, lazy butts taking care of my family. i hope when YOU get sick and have to be hospitalized you get a nurse as miserable as you are. and yes, i am a RN. i am not always jumping for joy at my job, but i am realistic about the nursing profession and what comes with it. i don't work med/surg because i don't like floor nursing. so there is no excuse to complain. find another profession where you don't have to work with people. the nursing profession would not miss you.

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My friend who is also a nurse, forwarded me to this site. The story could have been written about myself, but with some difference.
While I have not found my niche in nursing, after more than 20 yrs. in this profession, I would agree with one of the other responers, that if you are this miserable on a daily basis, it would be unwise, if at all possible, to remain in your current position.
I have worked in private physician office setting, hospital settings in nearly every unit, and the latest venture is in the role of a hospital based case manager. All of these experiences have left me wondering, "Is that all there is?"
Nursing is a very stressful, and often under valued profession. But if you find yourself feeling burnt out, make a change. Explore your options, and if after you exhaust. You owe it to yourself and to your patients. Life is too short, as you must know.
The reason I stay in nursing is for the health coverage. My husband lost his job in engineering 4 years ago, and 2 years ago he was diagnosed with cancer. I feel that my ability to navigate the health care system to get him access to care that would have been denied by our health plan as it was "out of network", saved his life. I feel that if his life would have been the only life I have saved in all of these years, that this alone would be the reason I became a nurse. If you are a Christian, ask the Lord what you should do. Don't let guilt keep you in a place where you don't want to be. Good luck.
NURSING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE, BUT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T BE HARD ON YOURSELF.

[gojack10]

How sad it is to see these hostile nurses attacking other nurses for just telling the truth. You people have truly 'sold your soul to the company store'. Though I doubt that any of you might have ever heard that old song, or even know what the words were referring to?

Your snide and ugly bitterness towards the supposed 'whiners' shows a true inability to have any compassion, that you all claim to be so happily delivering to your patients. The hunkydory cheeriness wrings hollow and untrue, when it comes full of so much obvious hate towards fellow workers that themnselves feel wounded.

In nursing, I have never come across worse attitudes towards the sick patient than I have seen from fellow nurses. It is this, that we rebel against.

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I am a nursing student in canada...i hate it...i hate going to school everyday to be put down by these dried up teachers and made to feel like im a bad person...im not...i went into nursing to help people and i will not stay in nursing just for the money...i have no idea why nurses eat their young...and unfortunately because of the nature of the job we can let them eat us or people who need our help will suffer the consequences...just a question...are most of the nurses on this board working on hospital floors?....or are there any who work in public health, teaching, research that feel the same way about their jobs?

[gojack10]

Not all nurses 'eat their young'. Many do because they are rewarded by management for doing just that. They are told that this is part of doing a good job from the management perspective.

You see, corporate nursing home and hospital managerment is profitting off the suffering of others, and they don't want to be challenged on any part of how they do it. So they have to act as the sociopathic bullies they often really are. That means establishing a ladder downwards of bullies in training, and some of these people will even be as low down as your own co-workers and instructors are in status. And even lower down in status and power and pay are the nursing assistants.

It's like plumbing in a sense. A plumber once asked me if I knew the cardinal rule of plumbing? I told him I didn't. Well it is this....

...Shit Flows Downhill...

And what is true in the plumbers world, is most definitely also true in the nursing world. Except sometimes it flows so low down and hard, that the shit actually backs up and reverses direction of flow. That means that licensed staff can get hit by shit flow coming from both up and down at the same time! Of course, you plumbers out there will say that that can happen to you, too. LOL.

The Drug Pusher

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Amen, gojack. Nurses "complain" and "whine" here because this is a safe forum to express the anger, pain, and utter dismay the experience with this job. It is not these nurses that I fear because they speak nothing but the truth. It is those nurses that criticize the wounded ones and have steeped themselves in denial and as gojack so eloquently put it, "sold themselves to the company store." These are the nurses that I fear the most because they bury their head in the sand and are the ones I feel are most likely to implode, explode, etc. and are ultimately the most dangerous.

[cdlamont]

I went into nursing over 30 years ago because it was a passsion for me. I had no idea what kind of salary I would earn. But I loved it. I have had so many different experiences along the way. I have worked hard. Lost my bladder and uterus to the lifting and pulling. My back and feet hurt daily and I am stressed to the max.
I am a care taker. Ihave spent more than half of my holidays at work not with my family. My children have accused me of putting my job before them. They are now grown and neither one even entertains the idea of nursing because of the requirements. It steals your personal life. I am stressed every day from family, from inadequately trained staff, new grads who think they know it all and don't want to hear anything anyone says,and of course the management. I am ready to bail or possibly have a nervous breakdown. I am so frustrated that I decided to look at the web to see if there was a place I could vent...and I found it. The problem is what shall I do next? I was watching Vegas last night and the man who was doing a manager job just taking care of one millionare was frustrated because he was working long hours, his person was demanding, rich though, he had to walk long distances, etc. In the end he refused the job...it was too much for him..I think I could do that. much easier than what I do now.

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Thanks so much for everything you said. I am a recent nursing school graduate about to take my boards and I honestly can't wait to go back to school for something else. I worked as a student nurse for two years and that is enough for me. Like you I am a nice person and a pretty good nurse already. I have patients ask me to be their nurse for the nexy day. I simply hate the job. I think its obsurd that you can make a patients or family's wishes come true for 11.5 hours and that last half hour tell them somethingf they don't want to hear and all of a sudden they are calling the hospital administrator on you.
Tara

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Hello all. I just made the decision to leave nursing school within the last couple of weeks as I too do not like it. I am a paramedic now and love my job, except for the money. All I can say to all of you guys and gals is to keep moving forward and go back to school or do something differant, why be miserable. I may not get payed lots of money as a paramedic, but being able to wake up happy to go to work is worth it!

Beth

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Wow, was I surprised at how much I found when I typed in "I hate nursing" into my browser. I have not even been a nurse for 2 years yet and I am sitting here in tears because I know I have to go back in tomorrow. I work on a cardiopulmonary stepdown unit and the stress literally makes me sick. Everyone I know would think I was CRAZY for writing this because I make "such good money", but I really, really, HATE it. Has anyone left nursing for another field that you're happy in? I would like to hear about it.

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I'm glad I found this forum.I've been a nurse for 20 years,I'm an LPN,and until recently I can say I've really felt this was my niche and what I was "called" to do. well as many others have commented I also have hit the wall. I love the patients,but it's sad about all the BS we have to accept since HMO's have changed the way things are run. We are often understaffed,last PM I worked with a new RN,She seemed to have the idea since I was the LPN I was supposed to take whatever came my way and when I was getting buried all she was supposed to do was sit and chart and remind me we were getting our 3rd admit ( already had 8 pts. When the Cna came to tell me pumps were going off (the fifth time) and I replaced vials of dilaudid on three Pca's,changed Iv bags that ran Dry, did 3 Bg's and covered them,and started hanging all nine Ivpb's between 8-9:30Pm. I finally said look! you're going to have help me out, I can't do it all. We need to work as a team,she seemed surprised,next thing I know She had another LPN help me out,Oh wait! she did the meds for the last admit. I usually don't have problems with team leaders,but then again most are more experienced.
Greg LPN, Tacoma WA.

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I am still LMAO at that one.....lol....lol....lol
I can never think of clever things like that to say but you said it so well.....bravo bravo bravo....
I pretty much agree with everything in this forum except for the people who are criticising the ones of us who are complaining...
How clever this is such a thing as a forum to voice our frustrations.....I feel better already.
I am sitting here at home...after working ten hours...waiting to go back in in two hours..and I typed in...."nurses who hate being nurses".....I really wasnt expecting to find much but do you know that the search engine was full??????
I'd say theres some big problems in the nursing industry for the nurses....Society needs to act soon or there wont be too many nurses left to take care of anyones family.
I am not sure what the answer is...but for starters....mandating safe full staff working environments would be good.
Working short is my biggest complaint. Understaffing and not enough people to do the work...It creates so many problems when there just isnt enough staff to care for the residents needs properly. I wouldnt want to be taken care of on a unit of 40 patients knowing that there was only one nurse and two to three cnas taking in the whole load? What a bunch of crap....come on...this has got to change.
What does it take to get big things to happen....how do we move mountains to get the governments to understand that hospitals and nursing homes especially are being run by understaffed overworked tired and exhausted certified and licensed staff?
If it were not for the exhaustion....I wouldnt be so tired....lol

I work in long term care btw. I cant wait to go back in and do another 8 hours after just working 10 hrs not to mention the two hour drive time to and fro(both shifts)

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What about the nurses that'll stand right under a light at the patient's door for ten minutes and walk thirty doors down the hallway to tell a nursing assistant that the patients bell is ringing? Those types I have no respect for. At some point in teir training they mistakenly read that their state registration entitled them to the title G.O.D. behind their names. Too, ever notice how they get spooked when Dr's or higher-ups come around. So phoney, phoney, phoney! And don't let an emergency happen...they are like Keystone Cops...bumbling idiots. This is when their true skills, or lack of skills, is put to the test!!!

[Unregistered]

wow..i love nursing ...from the education to the patients...but one nurse i know hates it...and says she does it just for the money...i MUST share some of her views...so if you spot her type...well...ugh is all i can say...to quote her

'it's a living...pays not all that bad...and all ya have to do is smile sometimes and you can get away with being late...not doing shit ..etc..even..not giving meds...just signing for them and dumping them in the garbage...try just signing a small piece of tape..and slapping it on an old dressing...best way to 'change' a dressing when you're running late! hey..ya have to know how to enjoy ur work!!!

'LOVE to see which nurses are the most ugly and then ask them who does their facials!!! it's a hoot!!!'

yeah...never saw her after that..think i said something to a supervisor..but the last i heard..she was doing charge somewhere...tres sad...but true

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Originally posted by Unregistered
'it's a living...pays not all that bad...and all ya have to do is smile sometimes and you can get away with being late...not doing shit ..etc..even..not giving meds...just signing for them and dumping them in the garbage...try just signing a small piece of tape..and slapping it on an old dressing...best way to 'change' a dressing when you're running late! hey..ya have to know how to enjoy ur work!!!



LOL...and I don't blame you!...they expect us to do all the meds within the hour and overload us with patient care...otherwise your considered to be too slow. I'm sure everyone has their special shortcuts so their not drilled by staff members.

I never knew that one but I have heard something that goes like this..."nursing care depends on who is looking". There's a lot of sh*t that goes on that the general public wouldn't know. Thats why you "cross your T's and dot your I's".

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Originally posted by Unregistered
yeah...never saw her after that..think i said something to a supervisor..but the last i heard..she was doing charge somewhere...tres sad...but true

Do you mean you reported her? Now I can see how you love nursing. Oh every nurse loves to work with a nurse like you...NOT!!!

[tranquil_realm]

one thing in here i'm sure everyone recognizes is your type. always bent over & puckered up. i hope the nurse you turned in shows up there one day on the shift following yours. then maybe she will post a message telling us all about the stupid brown nose that used to work there . by the way- if she had so much to do that she couldnt get done how do you wind up with all that extra time to go sift through for everybody elses faults? hmmmm you wouldnt by some chance be shining the light on others to cover up for your own shortcomings would you? yeah your type is a dime a dozen . at least she was honest & admitted she couldnt do everything expected of her. not like some people .yellow bellied snake in the grass types.

[Unregistered]

Interesting post about the np field. I did a google search for "nurse practitioner sucks," "I hate nurse practitioner," "I hate being a nurse practitioner," and a few others. I could not find one single link. That says alot doesn't it? A google search for "nursing sucks, and "I hate nursing" resulted in hundreds of links. Now THAT SAYS ALOT!

[tranquil_realm]

Originally posted by revive
Well, one thing for sure is that I feel really bad for all of you nurses who wasted almost a quarter of your lives complaining. I wouldn't know how it feels working in those conditions. I guess some people are made for certain jobs. I for one use to be a network engineer and I found it just as bad as you would to nursing. I left and now I am pursuing a different career.. nursing. It can be intimidating hearing stories from veterans in the job. But by the grace of God, I will become a nurse, I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13 and if you are smart you'll keep on praying. you are gonna need it. i used to do factory work. until my job no longer existed due to layoff and then factory closing. along came the opportunity to get retrained . for free. job security. no layoffs. i was supporting myself and my children. nursing. LPN. fast training. good enough pay. free career advancement training. well you know the saying "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is." that definitely applies to nursing. so keep on praying for strength, guidance, protection for your mind, boldness. forget the sensitivity part or you'll never survive nursing. pray for the wisdom to be able to find a way out of nursing. and jump for joy when you do find a way out.

[tranquil_realm]

Originally posted by Unregistered
What about the nurses that'll stand right under a light at the patient's door for ten minutes and walk thirty doors down the hallway to tell a nursing assistant that the patients bell is ringing? Those types I have no respect for. At some point in teir training they mistakenly read that their state registration entitled them to the title G.O.D. behind their names. Too, ever notice how they get spooked when Dr's or higher-ups come around. So phoney, phoney, phoney! And don't let an emergency happen...they are like Keystone Cops...bumbling idiots. This is when their true skills, or lack of skills, is put to the test!!! maybe because it is the cnas' job to answer the lights. why do you think the nurse should have to do the cna job? are you a cna? then you put he pt. on the bedpan yourself. dont expect the nurse to do your job for you unless you are willing to do the nurses' job. why are you standing down the hall and not responding? nurses tense up when drs. show up because they know they are going to have even more work to do than they already have and drs. often treat nurses with very little to no respect. and why do you think nurses act like bumbling idiots in an emergency?is it because they dont run down the hallway screaming and act frantic? that can cause more accidents and injuries to happen. nurses are trained not to do that. they also need a couple seconds to assess a situation. in other words think before they act. you sound like a pretty stupid individual to me if you cant figure those things out. so instead of standing in the hallway watching the nurse and wondering why she isnt doing your job while you're standing there watching her why dont you just concentrate on doing your job yourself.

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Originally posted by tranquil_realm
maybe because it is the cnas' job to answer the lights. why do you think the nurse should have to do the cna job? are you a cna? then you put he pt. on the bedpan yourself. dont expect the nurse to do your job for you unless you are willing to do the nurses' job. why are you standing down the hall and not responding? nurses tense up when drs. show up because they know they are going to have even more work to do than they already have and drs. often treat nurses with very little to no respect. and why do you think nurses act like bumbling idiots in an emergency?is it because they dont run down the hallway screaming and act frantic? that can cause more accidents and injuries to happen. nurses are trained not to do that. they also need a couple seconds to assess a situation. in other words think before they act. you sound like a pretty stupid individual to me if you cant figure those things out. so instead of standing in the hallway watching the nurse and wondering why she isnt doing your job while you're standing there watching her why dont you just concentrate on doing your job yourself.

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I am not a CNA but my job requires me to frequent hospitals and nursing homes frequently. Mostly what I see is a few licensed nurses sitting behind the desk gossiping and snaking. I have often witnessed a nurse ignore a call light and expect anyone else to answer it because they were busy sitting behind the desk gossping and snacking. I have attended several staff inservices at various facilities and routinely hearing "call lights are everyone's responsibility, " not delegated to one specific job title. If one calls oneself a nurse that entails all aspect of the job of nursing. And no CNA will not do the nurse's job, however Iit has appeared to be that the licensed staff somehow thinks that they are there to clean behind them. go figure...

[gojack10]

<<I am not a CNA but my job requires me to frequent hospitals and nursing homes frequently. Mostly what I see is a few licensed nurses sitting behind the desk gossiping and snaking. I have often witnessed a nurse ignore a call light and expect anyone else to answer it because they were busy sitting behind the desk gossping and snacking. >>

Some nurses will do this and I am far from beig a nurse who would try to paint all of us as being saints. However, maybe you don't quite understand some of what you see?

I have snacked a time or two at the nurses station but have missed many a break and lunch meal, too. The balance is that I have been ripped off hours and hours of time that is alotted by law as break time. What I have most often seen is that CNas get ripped occasionally of this time, but nothing on the scale that nurses do.

And so you came in and saw a nurse gazing into space as a call light goes off? So what? The CNA should get that call light. What you see as gazing into space most likely is an exhausted nurse trying to compose her thoughts enough to write down a ton of stuff in the notes. If CNAs had even a fraction of the idotic paperwork that nurses do, then there would not be this confusion. Even a chit-chatting nurse can be talking to another nurse about patient care. You merely assume from afar that it is just idle chit chat. Some of it is just that, but much of it can be a mixture. And in that mixture, is often nurses conversing and trying to figure out things about their patients by sounding it off other nurses.

And you coming in all judgemental is very typical of lazy, good for nothing adminstrators that do the same judgemental thing.
They often think that a stunned nurse staring into the air is a lazy nurse that needs yet more work poured on! I cannot begin to stress to you how much of this staring off is done over paperwork while trying to get it in some semblance of being written down in a coherent manner. You missed that angle, and a big angle it is too, and that illustrates precisely why non- floor nurses should not be in charge of setting conditions for floor nurses to work under.

The Drug Pusher

[tranquil_realm]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I am not a CNA but my job requires me to frequent hospitals and nursing homes frequently. Mostly what I see is a few licensed nurses sitting behind the desk gossiping and snaking. I have often witnessed a nurse ignore a call light and expect anyone else to answer it because they were busy sitting behind the desk gossping and snacking. I have attended several staff inservices at various facilities and routinely hearing "call lights are everyone's responsibility, " not delegated to one specific job title. If one calls oneself a nurse that entails all aspect of the job of nursing. And no CNA will not do the nurse's job, however Iit has appeared to be that the licensed staff somehow thinks that they are there to clean behind them. go figure... you sound like you are really ignorant. okay, the nurse is sitting down snacking. it's probably the only thing she'll get to eat all day. and she probably is talking about patient care. so she is taking a break. big damn deal. i bet you take all your breaks and then some every day don't you. if you want the call light answered go knock on the bathroom door. you will probably get the cna thats hiding in there talking on her cell phone. or go look in a sleeping or demented patients room and wake up the cna thats in there sleeping in a chair. or look around outside and find a couple cna's taking illegal smokebreaks. or you always have the option of answering the light yourself. i think you are not doing your damn job well at all since you more than likely dont have a clue as to what is really going on and are just throwing blame around. so why dont you just concentrate on doing your job right.

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The only thing which matches the anguish of the nurses on here who are ready to throw in the towel - is the hateful venom of the ones who disagree with them. This is nursing all over. On one side genuine human suffering, and on the other: one-upmanship, bitching and mind games. I've saved the lives of more kids than I can count. I've argued down professors to the benefit of my patient and to the risk of my career. I once told a seven year old girl that her sister was never going to wake up (that one will stay with me til the end). I've done my bit. I've served society. I've cured the sick and comforted the dying. Now I'm off to do something else...

[Unregistered]

I was fired from my last job after 90 days because I was "too slow". You see, I am 55 years old and my back is a wreck. I got censured by the state nursing board because a doctor didn't sign a verbal order. I had to take an Ethics class, A nursing board class, and pay a $ 2,500.00 fine. I started nursing school at 39 because I was tired of sales and knew that there would always be a job for a nurse. I started as a nursing assistant, then an LPN, then an RN and I'm three classes away from the BSN. I've been a DON and promised never to do to my nurses what previous DONs did to me. My best friend, also a nurse, directed me to this site as he announced that he was giving up a 20 year career to go sell insurance. For all the reasons above, nursing is a bad job. For all the reasons above, nursing is a good job. For all the shining moments there are many butts to wipe, objectionable patients, families, doctors, nurses, etc. You just have to pick your battles. Let the good days overshadow the bad ones.

[gojack10]

Yes, one of the most sickening things in nursing is how the companies, the state boards, and even fellow nurses gang up and dump on older and/or nurses with chronic medical problems! Boggles the mind how little compasion the "Love a Nurse" phoney set actually has. I have seen similar stuff with a nurse who had a heart attack even! And worked with one older nurse who was fired after one of her teenage psych patients pulled of her wig!

The Drug Pusher

[Unregistered]

I wish I could write you back and talk about all of this. Everything you have said is whatI have felt for 11 years. I hate nursing, too... and after my day at work today I typed in "nursing sucks" and found out I am, indeed, not alone. summer_breeze7306@yahoo.com

[Unregistered]

My God, you are the most ignorant person who has ever posted anything. Anywhere! Your delusions regarding professional nursing are exactly the reason we all hate it. We cannot win! And just who made you the nursing police anyway? I agree with th3e responder who says keep your stupid mouth shut until you have walked in a nurse's shoes for five minutes! You don't know one thing about the responssibilities heaped onto nurses and about the lazy shitheads who call themselves "assistants" or "CNA's". I have been a nurse for many years and have yet to be assisted. Mostly I get the head-popping attitude along with the expectation that I will do their work for them. Which, of course, I will do, because I will not let my patients do without proper care. The cycle is neverending and culminates with paid ancillary staff having no accountability whatsoever, and total idiots, like yourself, showing them ridiculous and utterly undeserved pity.

[tranquil_realm]

Originally posted by Unregistered
My God, you are the most ignorant person who has ever posted anything. Anywhere! Your delusions regarding professional nursing are exactly the reason we all hate it. We cannot win! And just who made you the nursing police anyway? I agree with th3e responder who says keep your stupid mouth shut until you have walked in a nurse's shoes for five minutes! You don't know one thing about the responssibilities heaped onto nurses and about the lazy shitheads who call themselves "assistants" or "CNA's". I have been a nurse for many years and have yet to be assisted. Mostly I get the head-popping attitude along with the expectation that I will do their work for them. Which, of course, I will do, because I will not let my patients do without proper care. The cycle is neverending and culminates with paid ancillary staff having no accountability whatsoever, and total idiots, like yourself, showing them ridiculous and utterly undeserved pity. i'm not the one that was complaining about the "lazy nurses". i am a nurse. if you go back and read the posts previous to that you'll know what's going on.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I found this site in the same manner as u did by typing, I Hate Nursing. I have spent the last 10yrs of my life, as a nurse, in what I can only describe as soul wrenching torture. I look back at myself, before I became a nurse, and can barely recognize that once confident, assertive, positive, life loving person. I too consider myself a damn good nurse, this is why I agonize over the lack of time I am alotted to safely care for my pts. The businessmen have taken over health care, everything is based on profit. I can no longer do what is asked of me, that being the impossible. I feel for all the nieve, eager, good souls who want to become nurses to make a difference...sigh...the odds are entirely stacked against them. I remember when many older and wiser nurses tried to warn me about the plight of nurses. I believed nurses were supported as advocaters back then, I thought I could change things. I am only 30yrs old btw...I have to leave nursing to fill the shell of my once whole self.

[tranquil_realm]

yup. thats what being a good nurse will do to you. i should say-- trying to be a good nurse because we are not allowed to do a good job anymore. i havent seen any physicians practice good medicine and actually make people well since the 1960's. isnt it a bit odd that in all these years with all the advances made in medicine that nobody ever seems to be really cured of anything. it's all about the top dogs making all the money.years ago people were cured of their disease or they died. now nobody gets cured, nobody dies quick, everybody hangs on for a long slow death. and the nurses are run ragged trying to help the patients. it never seems to ease their suffering or change the outcome for any of them. we ,in fact, then seem to only lose our own good health and all the normalcy that was once in our lives.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by revive
Well, one thing for sure is that I feel really bad for all of you nurses who wasted almost a quarter of your lives complaining. I wouldn't know how it feels working in those conditions. I guess some people are made for certain jobs. I for one use to be a network engineer and I found it just as bad as you would to nursing. I left and now I am pursuing a different career.. nursing. It can be intimidating hearing stories from veterans in the job. But by the grace of God, I will become a nurse, I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13

[Unregistered]

all the praying in the world is not going to make the ungrateful vultures in the nursing field be any nicer or loyal to you. It is a dog eat dog nursing world and most are back stabbing, manipulating liars. I wish you luck............social work would be a more rewarding field.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
pray on revive,i hope it helps when you are driven absoloutely insane with impossible work assignments,family members who are either nuts or think they are @ the waldorf-astoria hotel,mgmt.that doesn't give a good g%&da*#,dr's who write pages of orders,secretaries who don't care if they goof up,assistants who hide all shift or who are openly hostile,coworkers who hope you will make a mistake so you'll go down,ancillary svcs.that are prisoners on work release,you are so tired you can't think straight,heartbreaking situations you can do nothing about ,people with gunshot wounds who have the perp coming in to finish them off and whoever is in the way,low pay,no voice in the nursing process and delivery.i could go on and on.but i only want you yo see there are real and very vexing problems with nursing as it is today.mcrich in alabama

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Waa Waa. Nursing is better off without a whining baby like you, we have enough of them. I for one just go to work and do my job. I've been a nurse for 3 years, work per doem and make over 100 grand a year. Go make yourself miserable in some other profession.
Its per diem............sounds like you are one of the vultures in it for the money and not for the compassionate side of it. In other words you can't spell and highly unlikely you make over $100,000 a year with only 3 years of experience......or are you one of those that is doin' the doc?

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by gojack10
How sad it is to see these hostile nurses attacking other nurses for just telling the truth. You people have truly 'sold your soul to the company store'. Though I doubt that any of you might have ever heard that old song, or even know what the words were referring to?

Your snide and ugly bitterness towards the supposed 'whiners' shows a true inability to have any compassion, that you all claim to be so happily delivering to your patients. The hunkydory cheeriness wrings hollow and untrue, when it comes full of so much obvious hate towards fellow workers that themnselves feel wounded.

In nursing, I have never come across worse attitudes towards the sick patient than I have seen from fellow nurses. It is this, that we rebel against.

So how did you enter this site? by typing "i hate nursing"? Well those big heads that wear the badge RN, are nasty to their staff, to the patients and families...........if not to their faces they are behind their backs.....now that is true compassion right? Nursing is a horrible profession.............plagued with overworked collegues that take their frustrations out on god forbid the "new guy" or the one that does not fit into their circle that meets at the nearest pub to bitch and complain about work and the patients. Get over yourself...........this site allows nurses to vent and to get reassurance that they are not alone and they are not the only ones that made the biggest and $$$ career fumble of their lives.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Nursing is not for some people. However, there are several opportunities in nursing. I have been a nurse for 8 years. I was scared as hell when I first graduated and I complained a lot primarily out of fear. I have done many different things in my short career to date i.e. endoscopy, OR, med-surg, oncology (certified), research, medical device company consultant, CRA. I have been on both sides of the coin. Sitting at a desk all day is a slow, miserable, unfufilling death. Those who bitch about nursing are simply burnt out and instead of breeding their negativity they should test the waters in everything our profession has to offer. Go into nursing and stay in nursing if you want to use your life to make a difference. If your a truly caring person, and not passive aggressive, then your rewards will be few but nevertheless you will have them. There is nothing kinder then too comfort a patient who is facing death.

To the one who was complaining: good riddance and please go get a job in a bank or at McDonalds. I'm quite certain that you will be full of self loathing and misery there as well.






I don't think that nurses should stop complaining. If many are complaining, it's because their workload is simply too much for a human being to handle...( I for one am in that situation). Nursing in many areas have become highly stressful, as well as dangerous to both patients and staff due to the poor nurse to patient staff ratios. I had a patient expire on me, but you know what? I felt so bad that I could not make good quality time for that patient and the family, why? because I had 4 other patients to take care of who were demanding my time. 5 patients may not seem like a large number, but it is when you don't have any CNA's or LVN's to help you. And while yes, a nurse could simply keep moving on to another area of nursing till she finds a job less stressful, that doesn't solve the problem in our profession. Maybe the more nurses complain, then maybe changes will be done. And I believe serious changes need to be done NOW. So to all nurses complaining, I emphatize with you and I encourage everyone to use all your energies, knowledge, and power to make a change!!! Voice it out in places at the top where we could be heard, not only here on the internet, but to government officials!!!! I believe we can't make a change, if we just grumble amongst ourselves or just look for a better area of nursing till we're satisfied or we simply just keep our mouths shut and internalize everything till we become sick ourselves, instead I believe we can make a positive change, if we unite, rally, and voice our concerns. We need BETTER, more realistic nurse to patient staffing ratios.

[new_RN]

I am a new RN, I was a CNA for 10 years before I decided to be a nurse and what was I thinking? I a not afraid to say that I was an excellent CNA, when a call light came on, I didn't wait for the nurse to get it, that was my job, if rounds were to be done every 2 hrs, I did them, and I worked in a nursing home taking care of at least 30 residents at a time and my work was always done, I never questioned a nurse, I did what she says and no questions asked, I was the assistant, that's it…and then I became an RN, what an eye opener, no wonder there is a shortage...so far these so-called assistants I have had to work with are the laziest people ever, and all they have is 9 pts max to take care of, most of my pt's are ambulatory and just need stand by assist to bathroom or something to drink, and do I&O's at the end of the shift, maybe VS when pt's are new, well I might as well be working by myself....I have yet to be impressed, these CNA's are a disgrace to the nursing profession. I am not a person that will ignore the lights, my pt could end up on the floor or may be having a heart attack or puking blood...but these (as someone called them) shitheads don't give a shit about their patients...new graduates already have the stress of a new job and doing things per “policy & procedure” and these assholes just make it harder....no wonder new grads don't last in hospitals, I cannot wait for my year to be over (I had to sign a contract)…I will find somewhere else to practice nursing…do these hospitals honestly believe that this generation of new nurses is willing to work like this? I am the youngest one on my floor, the rest of the nurses are retirement age or close to it…who the hell is gonna work when they are gone? I hope for the patients' sake that the majority of new grads don't feel the way I do

[Unregistered]

Dont fool yourselves, Ive been in Nursing for 10 yrs and its chaning. If you are white they want to get you out

[Rooseguitar64]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Waa Waa. Nursing is better off without a whining baby like you, we have enough of them. I for one just go to work and do my job. I've been a nurse for 3 years, work per doem and make over 100 grand a year. Go make yourself miserable in some other profession.

[Rooseguitar64]

Originally posted by Rooseguitar64
Ummm....does it feel good to you when people have issues with self-centered egomaniacal hospital/skilled facility staff? Nursing is a wonderful profession..and I have come to the point in my career where i realize the ONLY reason why I remain a nurse is for the care of others. The pay is laughable against the liabilities..and trying to appease your contemporaries is a fruitless pursuit...and this is for any nurse managers who post in the forum....there is more to running a unit than the bottom line...its knowing how to build a T > E> A > M. they work with you not under you or for you... and you need to set the tone...by your example..wherever it takes you. That degree means nothing without work to back it up...

[Unregistered]

The best thing I ever did in my life was quit nursing. I am so happy now and I have a better job traveling the world teaching. I would never go back to nusing, God it was such a depressing job, I felt like I was dead before my time. Now I am happy and feel alive.

[Unregistered]

I bet you're one of those Techs who hide out in a patient's room to see how long it takes a RN to answer Your light. I know you're the one that runs in the other direction when an emergency happens and the first one in the supervisor's office to report the idiots while leaving yourself out of the count!

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I bet you're one of those Techs who hide out in a patient's room to see how long it takes a RN to answer Your light. I know you're the one that runs in the other direction when an emergency happens and the first one in the supervisor's office to report the idiots while leaving yourself out of the count!

People who say these things are often reflecting on their own behaviour.

[Unregistered]

I am happy for you. I am not a nurse I am a surgical Technologist for the past long, hard, terribly nightmarish years. I lost my job after reporting being shoved my alcoholic OR supervisor. It was just the last straw; I was so abused on this hell ride. Management told me if I didn't like it I could leave. I called corporate compliance and told them everything. This included the foul mouth surgical tech that used obscenity to keep the docs entertained while I was told to shut up when I was concerned about a patient's welfare when I saw broken equipment I reported it. I also informed them of the endless cigarette breaks the nurse manger took with other personal in the loop while I lingered in surgery for over 7 hours without a break. Well I did not leave quietly and I am seeking compensation through legal avenues. I have not worked in over 6 months my unemployment ran out and I am currently enrolled in a teaching program and intend to teach biology which is now called living environment. I love kids I also graduated top of my class in my associate degree program for surgical technology & my B.S degree in Health & Society which is like a public health degree. I look forward to being in front of a class so that if anything awful happens I will have approximately 30 willing witnesses who are not jaded and willing to tell the truth. My mental health has suffered tremendously and I have been prescribed Zoloft. I am just unable to completely severe human emotion from my job, I want to treat people decently & I too want to be treated decently, I know this will never happen in this profession. I also understand the angst many nurses endue when their conscious tells them one thing and their need to remain employed dictates another. The reality of this profession can leave a person bitter, I am no exception. I still have soul but it needs to be saved. I am at the point of destitution with only a thousand dollars left in the bank, but I don't think I can return to the OR. This week I am going to look for a job delivering pizza. I am actually starting to cry right now as I think of what has happened to me and the many indignities I have faced in this profession, it makes a person cold and hard and that's not who I want to be. I am so disillusioned and lately I find myself wishing that I was no longer alive. But I am a fighter & I am going to hang in there, although at 48 I wish my life were different. I had wanted to work with professionals who were doing something meaningful but I am a late bloomer and when reality hit I found out it was not really good place.

[Unregistered]

Hey guys, not all CNAS are "lazy shitheads" some of us are caring, loving individuals that take care of our people. I am a CNA and very proud of the job I do.

[Unregistered]

I too hate nursing. I thought it would be something I could do without getting bored and something to be proud of...Muhahaha

I work with some of the most freakin backstabbing, two faced, bipolar,psycho women. I work nights and I have to follow them in the morning. These are 30 yr vetrans and can't even change an IV line even if the tag is 5 days old. Won't change a crappy diaper unless it's dripping out on th floor. Won't d/c an IV , even when they tell you in report it's red and swollen and won't flush-how freaking stoopid is that? Forget about a linen change. But by God, if you miss one little item your SOL. I have learned to ignore most of their antics and if they do piss me off I get right back in their faces--GOD don't let me become one of them!!!

If I didn't have a mortgage and a retired hubbie I'd quit in a heartbeat. God please lower the retirement age!

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Dont fool yourselves, Ive been in Nursing for 10 yrs and its chaning. If you are white they want to get you out

Humm, I have noticed this also. And I think it is totally rude for nurses to speak another language at the nurses station.

Ex: We have Filipinos that always say '"oh, we aren't talking about you" yeah, what ever, I always tell them : I know you are and say one or two words in Filipino back to them but refuse to have any other conversation, love to em guessing!

[rigby]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Nursing is not for some people. However, there are several opportunities in nursing. I have been a nurse for 8 years. I was scared as hell when I first graduated and I complained a lot primarily out of fear. I have done many different things in my short career to date i.e. endoscopy, OR, med-surg, oncology (certified), research, medical device company consultant, CRA. I have been on both sides of the coin. Sitting at a desk all day is a slow, miserable, unfufilling death. Those who bitch about nursing are simply burnt out and instead of breeding their negativity they should test the waters in everything our profession has to offer. Go into nursing and stay in nursing if you want to use your life to make a difference. If your a truly caring person, and not passive aggressive, then your rewards will be few but nevertheless you will have them. There is nothing kinder then too comfort a patient who is facing death.

To the one who was complaining: good riddance and please go get a job in a bank or at McDonalds. I'm quite certain that you will be full of self loathing and misery there as well.

[rigby]

I'm 55 years old and have been a nurse for 6 months. Having been in high stress business positions I was sure I could handle nursing and went back to school (I have a non related bachelor's) and earned my RN. What a mistake! I have never felt so absolutely unappreciated and abused! Everything negative in these posts is true . . . except that the horror is understated.

Having said the above, I refuse to leave the profession. Instead I will be getting out of floor nursing. After doing a bit of research I find there are other less stressful specialities in the field and even business opportunities for RNs.

"Quit Complaining" is one of those nurses who demeans the suffering of others and she is exactly the type I meet on the floor every time I go to work. Instead of empathy and positive feedback, she insults those who have legitimate complaints and who feel trapped by their need to earn a living.

KEEP COMPLAINING!!!! Congress. LAWYERs and PATIENTS are listening. There is a move to decrease ratios by law. Lawyers are filing suits against hospitals with high pt ratios for negligence in overworking nurses and patients are beginning to ask about ratios before they chose a hospital.

My last thought is that if nurses would organize there would be NO LIMIT to their power. But I have tried to get others at work interested in petitions, work slowdowns, etc. but they fear the loss of the income. Damn, they just don't get it! In my hospital if 30 nurses pulled a few "sick days" at the same time the hospital would have to close the doors!! Management might then start to listen. But it won't happen . . . too much fear....

My heart goes out to all of you who suffer the indignities of this profession, noble as it used to be, it is now simply a means for corporations to make the big bucks off the backs of our labor.

Share your feelings . . . tell everyone you can how bad it is . . . never be silent . . . Help fuel the shortage and REBEL!!!

God Bless you all.

[Unregistered]

i really dont agree with what you have said. I am not a nurse, nor am i in medical school, but i honestly think nursing is a great thing, just because someone passes away, doesnt mean anything, yes it is very sad, and its hard to deal with it, but if you cant deal with people dying then why did u go to nursing school in the first place. With becoming a nurse comes emotions, In medical school do they teach you how to be emotionally stable? because they should. I want to be a pediatrician, maybe a nurse, and yes i will deal with the children who pass on, it will be sad, and i will be sad, but you do have more patients to deal with. I'm not cold hearted one bit, i am very emotional actually, and i've thought about being a nurse and dealing with a patient dying and yes its sad, but its life. If God wants them, then he takes them. If it wasnt for nurses, i wouldnt be alive right now, i've had my times where i almost died plenty of times, but i'm here because the nurses helped me. they saved my brother, he is well now. If medical study isnt for you, then dont take it.

[Unregistered]

Unfortunately you have made a mistake and assumed that I was speaking about dealing with death. I was not. I was speaking about the poor working conditions that nurses everywhere have to deal with. Read the letter next time you want to comment.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
i really dont agree with what you have said. I am not a nurse, nor am i in medical school, but i honestly think nursing is a great thing, just because someone passes away, doesnt mean anything, yes it is very sad, and its hard to deal with it, but if you cant deal with people dying then why did u go to nursing school in the first place. With becoming a nurse comes emotions, In medical school do they teach you how to be emotionally stable? because they should. I want to be a pediatrician, maybe a nurse, and yes i will deal with the children who pass on, it will be sad, and i will be sad, but you do have more patients to deal with. I'm not cold hearted one bit, i am very emotional actually, and i've thought about being a nurse and dealing with a patient dying and yes its sad, but its life. If God wants them, then he takes them. If it wasnt for nurses, i wouldnt be alive right now, i've had my times where i almost died plenty of times, but i'm here because the nurses helped me. they saved my brother, he is well now. If medical study isnt for you, then dont take it.

You can think all you want to about what it's like but until you actually do it you don't know a damn thing. Actually dealing with patients..even dying ones is not a bad thing. It's the SYSTEM that you have to work in that makes you feel that your hands are tied and you compromise yourself each day you go to work but you won't know anything about that until you are are in it YOURSELF. Your head is all up in the clouds just like everybody else who tries to imagine what nursing (or any job in the medical field is like) while sitting on their arses, daydreaming and never getting their hands dirty. Grow up, to go nursing school and check back with us when you've done the job a couple of years and then you might have have something to say that's worth us listening to.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by revive
Well, one thing for sure is that I feel really bad for all of you nurses who wasted almost a quarter of your lives complaining. I wouldn't know how it feels working in those conditions. I guess some people are made for certain jobs. I for one use to be a network engineer and I found it just as bad as you would to nursing. I left and now I am pursuing a different career.. nursing. It can be intimidating hearing stories from veterans in the job. But by the grace of God, I will become a nurse, I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13

I would pray for a body double because as a nurse you do the work of two people, no matter how bad being a network engineer is, people don't die if you make a mistake!!

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
i really dont agree with what you have said. I am not a nurse, nor am i in medical school, but i honestly think nursing is a great thing, just because someone passes away, doesnt mean anything, yes it is very sad, and its hard to deal with it, but if you cant deal with people dying then why did u go to nursing school in the first place. With becoming a nurse comes emotions, In medical school do they teach you how to be emotionally stable? because they should. I want to be a pediatrician, maybe a nurse, and yes i will deal with the children who pass on, it will be sad, and i will be sad, but you do have more patients to deal with. I'm not cold hearted one bit, i am very emotional actually, and i've thought about being a nurse and dealing with a patient dying and yes its sad, but its life. If God wants them, then he takes them. If it wasnt for nurses, i wouldnt be alive right now, i've had my times where i almost died plenty of times, but i'm here because the nurses helped me. they saved my brother, he is well now. If medical study isnt for you, then dont take it.

Pleassssssssseeeeeeeee!! Nice to know you have THOUGHT about how you would handle death!! If you are really an emotional person...let us know how you are doing in a few years once nursing (if you chose to be a nurse) sucks the life out of you and leaves you void of emotion...ever hear of burn out!

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by revive
Well, one thing for sure is that I feel really bad for all of you nurses who wasted almost a quarter of your lives complaining. I wouldn't know how it feels working in those conditions. I guess some people are made for certain jobs. I for one use to be a network engineer and I found it just as bad as you would to nursing. I left and now I am pursuing a different career.. nursing. It can be intimidating hearing stories from veterans in the job. But by the grace of God, I will become a nurse, I will pray for strength, I will pray for guidance, I will pray that the job will not get to my head, I will pray to be sensative, I will pray to be bold, I will pray to be wise and I will pray for joy.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13

While you're doing all that praying, pray for some good antidepressants, anxiety medication, and a strong bladder. You're going to have to do a lot of praying. You had better get started.

[not registered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Unfortunately you have made a mistake and assumed that I was speaking about dealing with death. I was not. I was speaking about the poor working conditions that nurses everywhere have to deal with. Read the letter next time you want to comment.

i wasnt referring anything to what u were sayin, i had just read the story of the women and i realize what she is going through and yeah i guess it will be depressing and i dont know what it is like to be a nurse until i actually get to shadow and RN at a hospital. i have been in the hospital environment and to me nurses look happy, but at times they look sad, and i dunno about u but the environment the nurses work in over here are very nice, and everyone is nice and comfort u, i'm sorry if u arent having a great job, find a different hospital or a different job.

[ananomyous]

It just sucks

[ananomyous]

I am here with these nursing students,and it is like see someone about to step into sh#t.But it is too late,so I will just laugh at their dumb a##.

[anymonounous123]

I'm currently in paralegal school and I am switiching my major to nursing.

I worked 12 years in real estate and dealing with attorneys in the corporate world. You think nursing sucks? Try working in the corporate world. I worked in one of the biggest firms in my area and you know how you got promotions? By sleeping with the boss. I decided to leave my job after sexual harrassment and found the all the other jobs in the corporate world were no better. You would get cursed out, talked down to, and some young miss want to climb the corporate ladder was telling you what to do with bitter seethingness.

You might not like nursing but I can tell you other jobs aren't a cake walk either. I can find people in every area of work that literally depise their jobs and might not have to deal with death everyday but they feel dead in the rat race. If you don't like it than get out. Do something else but be prepared because other jobs have their problems and nasty slefish people to deal with. This is just the reality of the world we live in. Sad but true.

I'm starting nursing school soon. I don't have any expectations except that I would like to work in pediatrics but other than that I accept the fact that I'll have to deal with shit on every level, this is a reality in any work force. I currently have a heart condition form working in the corporate world so long, so how is that any better?

[nursesuck]

I hate nurses. It takes a really sick f**k to become a nurse. They are mean, stupid(not ignorant mind you but stupid), and rude. They are all nasty little people who wish they could be in charge.

[nurseuck]

Oh and for all the nurses out there complaining. I say quit. Trust me the people you work for, your patients, and the rest of the staff will be happy you are gone. Spread the word.... Nursing = personality disorder.

[satirical]

Originally posted by tranquil_realm
maybe because it is the cnas' job to answer the lights. why do you think the nurse should have to do the cna job? are you a cna? then you put he pt. on the bedpan yourself. dont expect the nurse to do your job for you unless you are willing to do the nurses' job. why are you standing down the hall and not responding? nurses tense up when drs. show up because they know they are going to have even more work to do than they already have and drs. often treat nurses with very little to no respect. and why do you think nurses act like bumbling idiots in an emergency?is it because they dont run down the hallway screaming and act frantic? that can cause more accidents and injuries to happen. nurses are trained not to do that. they also need a couple seconds to assess a situation. in other words think before they act. you sound like a pretty stupid individual to me if you cant figure those things out. so instead of standing in the hallway watching the nurse and wondering why she isnt doing your job while you're standing there watching her why dont you just concentrate on doing your job yourself.

So when did the responsibilty of all disciplines to answer call lights change? Get off your asses.

[satirical]

Originally posted by nursesuck
I hate nurses. It takes a really sick f**k to become a nurse. They are mean, stupid(not ignorant mind you but stupid), and rude. They are all nasty little people who wish they could be in charge.

LOL!

[satirical]

Originally posted by tranquil_realm
you sound like you are really ignorant. okay, the nurse is sitting down snacking. it's probably the only thing she'll get to eat all day. and she probably is talking about patient care. so she is taking a break. big damn deal. i bet you take all your breaks and then some every day don't you. if you want the call light answered go knock on the bathroom door. you will probably get the cna thats hiding in there talking on her cell phone. or go look in a sleeping or demented patients room and wake up the cna thats in there sleeping in a chair. or look around outside and find a couple cna's taking illegal smokebreaks. or you always have the option of answering the light yourself. i think you are not doing your damn job well at all since you more than likely dont have a clue as to what is really going on and are just throwing blame around. so why dont you just concentrate on doing your job right.

Why are you so angry? I'm glad I am no patient of yours. Just get off your lazy ass!

[satirical]

Originally posted by nurseuck
Oh and for all the nurses out there complaining. I say quit. Trust me the people you work for, your patients, and the rest of the staff will be happy you are gone. Spread the word.... Nursing = personality disorder.

I concur!

[satirical]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Dont fool yourselves, Ive been in Nursing for 10 yrs and its chaning. If you are white they want to get you out

What's this reversed racism? Now you know how it feels to be on the receiving end. But you don't complain and see no problems when you and your establisment are trying to get rid of any non-white. :p

[NJ girl]

I'm not sure what some of you anonymous commenters were expecting when you came to this site, but the caregivers who "cry, whine or complain" in your view are also people who are hurting with feelings of anger, frustration and powerlessness. A nurse for 27 years, I feel I have paid my dues, and have the freedom of speech to "tell my truth" anyway I see fit. It may be whining to some, but it's expressing feelings in my book.

[Nancee]

So right, no one wants to do it. In the state I live, 30% of RN's are inactive. Quite a number, you'd think the nursing board might want to address that fact, huh?

[Unregistered69]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Waa Waa. Nursing is better off without a whining baby like you, we have enough of them. I for one just go to work and do my job. I've been a nurse for 3 years, work per doem and make over 100 grand a year. Go make yourself miserable in some other profession. How many Percocet do you need per day to maintain your habit? Because obviously if you like nursing you're high as a kite.

[Unregistered95]

Originally posted by Nancee
So right, no one wants to do it. In the state I live, 30% of RN's are inactive. Quite a number, you'd think the nursing board might want to address that fact, huh? Well, they don't - Please feel free to email the person in charge of the board of nursing in Connecticut to complain about how much nursing sucks - because this person is largely responsible for it - his name is Stephen Carragher and his email is: Carragher, Stephen <Stephen.Carragher@po.state.ct.us>

His is a supercilious asshole who is glued to the corporate greed pole. Write him and let him now what a piece of shit you think he is. I did.

[linzylou]

Okay, I could not help but agree with some of the previous comments. I am in nursing school and it has been one of the worst experiences of my life. This is not my first degree and probably not my last... But I have to say that I have never been in the military but nursing school has to be similar. It is like all of these B's want to break you down, brain wash you, get rid of an individuality you had when you walked in the door and make you as miserable as one of them. I am thankful though that I have found lifelong friends in school that have edured the horror of nursing school right along with me. The first problem is that nursing schools cant retain any professors that are worth anything because they offer them salaries that are half as much as what they would make in the hospital so you get the burned out nurses or the nurses who are banned from the hospital because they hurt a patient or hurt themselves. Hmmmm, what is wrong with the picture. Then they use the little power they have to make nursing students question themselves and everything they were once sure about is now in question.

All I have to say is that nursing school is horrid. I am lucky that I love the profession of nursing. I love helping people, interacting with my patients and their families and I hope to grow in this career!

As for nursing school if you want to know where not to go, just ask me. And the funny thing is that most alumni from my school feel the same way. Doesn't that say something about the school. All the alumni's warned me about it before I started but I felt that it was important to get a Bachelors degree, I had the prereq's. I am counting the days until I can have my life back and pick myself up off the ground... How did I ever volunteer for this....:confused: :confused: :confused:

[dghtr_morrigan]

Thank you so much! You feel the same as I, although I am an LPN working for an "agency" and am sent to nursing homes. I have been a nurse nearly 5 years and I cry every night.
I can't afford to go back to school for anything elese, my husband is a cop and although we don't reel in alot, even with just him working we would'nt be able to get any financial help.
Nursing has depressed me beyond anything I have ever done. I used to be happy, vibrant and enthusiastic.
I am lucky to crack a smile these days. I see such terrible conditions and so much death, and no one seems to care. They just walk on by.
The only thing was is that I didn't know there were others that felt the way that I do. It gives me a little hope, at least. I felt awful that I could be depressed about such a "noble" job as this. I feel so much better now. Thank you for sharing.

[ihatemyjob]

I am a RN and I hate it. I have been working for about 2 years as an RN and I hate every moment of it. I was brain washed by the hype and spent four years at university to learn how to clean shit. Don't get me wrong the pay is okay for cleaning poop, however, its not worth dealing with all the stress from knowing any little mistake could kill a patient, dealing with families, or dumb managers. Nursing is overrated, if you like catching diseases, being treated like dog shit, and feeling like shit during a night shift then you are a moron and nursing is for you. So this is my advice please, please don't go into nursing I wouldn't wish it on anyone. The worst bit about it, is that it is kind of like joining the mafia once you join you can never leave. I am currently; applying for a new job cleaning horse stalls, which I think, will be more rewarding, and at least the only shit I will be dealing with will be at my feet.

[navidad]

I'm considering becoming an anesthetist, and after reading this post, I'm worried about the 1 or 2 year ICU requirement. Do any nurse anesthetists out there feel the same way?

[opps]

I hate nursing toooooooooo, what can I do, I want to get the hell out:confused:

[opps]

Originally posted by navidad
I'm considering becoming an anesthetist, and after reading this post, I'm worried about the 1 or 2 year ICU requirement. Do any nurse anesthetists out there feel the same way?

I am working at an ICU and have applied tio CRNA school. well being a floor nurse is crazyyyyyyyyy and I hate it. in my earlier post I asked what can I do???? I am not even sure whether Grad school in afield related to nursing is a good idea. Sometimes I want to go back to school and get a Bsc in Chem or BA, Anything thats got nothing to do with patient care.

[navidad]

Well, I know the crna position does give you an opportunity to have more one-on-one patient care but it is definitely still patient care. If you're interested in chemistry and don't want to be around patients, there are alot of careers you could possibly consider if you're willing to go back to school. You could consider research careers. I have a friend who is working as a city environmental safety scientist with her chem degree and she loves it. You really have to keep searching.

[Ostropolier]

What kind of things can nurses get fired for? Some people tell me that a nurse's job is hanging by a thread at any given time. Others tell me that it's like a corporate job, practically impossible to get fired unless it's criminal misconduct after you're above a certain level.

What sort of things have you seen nurses get fired for over the years?

[beanchin]

To the one who wrote the original story...bless you. U have given me hope.

[KadyK]

The only reason I do this job is for the money and that's not all that good. I could give less than a shit about my demanding, entitled patients and their equally demanding and shitty family members, out of touch management, arrogant doctors and over enthuesiactic med students who all think that I am their personal assistant, maid, waitress, gopher etc. I didn't go into this profession because " I care", what a bunch of shit that is. I hate nurses and their back stabbing, miserable, one up you attitudes. To all of you "Florence Nightengales" out there, you know exactly how it is and you are the ones who cause trouble and make it a living hell for the rest of us nurses. You all have miserable home lives or no lives and can only feel validated or important by making someone else look bad. I hate hate hate this useless profession......................

[Former nurse]

Originally posted by Ostropolier
What kind of things can nurses get fired for? Some people tell me that a nurse's job is hanging by a thread at any given time. Others tell me that it's like a corporate job, practically impossible to get fired unless it's criminal misconduct after you're above a certain level.

What sort of things have you seen nurses get fired for over the years?

A nurse can be fired at any time and for just about any reason at all. It can happen very easily, especially if management really wants to get rid of you. All it takes is just one mistake...just one little mistake, and you can find yourself not only being fired, but also being sued and losing your license. Remember that nurses have a ton of responsibility and NO authority at all. And the nurse is ALWAYS the first person to be blamed whenever anything goes wrong.

[Former nurse]

Originally posted by navidad
I'm considering becoming an anesthetist, and after reading this post, I'm worried about the 1 or 2 year ICU requirement. Do any nurse anesthetists out there feel the same way?


You really have to meet up with a few CRNAs and talk to them about what the career is like before deciding if it right for you. The AMA does not like CRNAs because they view them as lowly nurses who are attempting to encroach on medical turf. The MDs also don't take too kindly to the fact that some CRNAs make more money than they do. It used to be only a prestige thing, but now its definitely more of a money thing.

The Anesthesiologists are very resentful towards CRNAs because they don't like the idea of nurses doing the same work that they had to spend years in residency preparing to do. The AMA has successfully colluded with many hospitals all across the country to restrict previleges to CRNAs who practice independently, and there are still many hospitals that won't hire CRNAs unless they are practicing under an anesthesiologist.

The other consideration is that, traditionally, the anesthesiologist is the person in charge of any surgical procedure---not the surgeon---as many people believe. However, the dynamics change when the person who is delivering the anesthesia is not a physician. In many cases, as a CRNA, you will still have to work with surgeons who are total assholes and they will curse at you and treat you like shit in exactly the same way as they treat the nurses who work on the floor.

[Babyheart]

Originally posted by tranquil_realm
one thing in here i'm sure everyone recognizes is your type. always bent over & puckered up. i hope the nurse you turned in shows up there one day on the shift following yours. then maybe she will post a message telling us all about the stupid brown nose that used to work there . by the way- if she had so much to do that she couldnt get done how do you wind up with all that extra time to go sift through for everybody elses faults? hmmmm you wouldnt by some chance be shining the light on others to cover up for your own shortcomings would you? yeah your type is a dime a dozen . at least she was honest & admitted she couldnt do everything expected of her. not like some people .yellow bellied snake in the grass types.

Oh wouldn't I love to have somebody like you taking care of my children? Oh wait I probably have met you or at least some of your "type". What's your preference - staph? People like you are a disgrace and you look down on the nurses that actually do their job. Calling people names - why because they actually TAKE CARE of their patients instead of whinging and bitching with people like you.

[lut913]

guess what? there is a national doctors day... so don't be so paranoid about nurses week.. it is stupid and demeaning.. so isn't doctors day.. take it with a grain of salt.. it is only meant for the card industry to make money... ha!

[deathnurse]

"Posted by Unregistered on 12-05-2003 01:22 PM:
Changed my mind

I was thinking of doing nursing, but after reading this I think I just changed my mind."

If we can change just one life by sharing our past experiences as nurses, our stories have done their job.

Yeah, we'll always read about the fresh-young nubies who have yet to enjoy the thrill of family members hovering around their bleeding, drunken uncle who just kicked you in the chest before you could tie him to the bed. "Why do you have to do that!?"

We will again and again read the pre-insightful statements from those in nursing school, setting out to change the world, without getting any help to wipe the bleeding crap from the 300 pounder. With ER on the line to give you your next one. At change of shift, of couse, to meet "the numbers."

We will silently respect you as we were once respected, dazed and confused in nursing school. We all have to learn, and we all keep the secret about this "profession."

We will take the on-line slights from nurses who work in those lofty situations that don't have patient or MD contact. They will tell us to "get out of nursing if you hate it so bad." But they're not helping anyone. Really. They're not helping anyone.

I did my "three-in-a-row" in ICU for 15 years, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so the "female" nurses could spend time with their families on the weekends. But my ulterior motive worked. I saw fewer nurse-managers on the weekends and I got a 'weekend bonus" for working a hard-to-schedule shift.

And as someone else on these boards wrote, sometimes you get "a good save" when you save the life of a patient with a job and a family to support. But it's most indigents, drunks, leeches on society spending your tax dollars on their healthcare for a lost cause. That can make it worthwhile for about a week.

But then you'll have the nightshift nurse with lessor skills and low self-esteem asking why you didn't hang another blood at 1859 instead of "making" her do it before you go home, thereby winning the female-nurse, "I'm better than you" game.

But I digress to another subject, and I'm losing focus.

Save another soul. When you get your student nurses to drag around, it may be too late in their school years to make them change their minds, but it never hurts to try. Temper your anger with, "but you'll always have a job, you'll have a house and cars, you can take vacations," etc., but you'll never be stress-free.

Just encourage them to not take crap from other nurses, patients, doctors, and managers.

Hell, I'm rambling. Forgive me my trespasses.

[the_truth]

You are the worst kind of nurse. Feeling like you might "let someone die" because you scarfed down a sandwich? Sensless dramatics.

This is NOT greys anatomy. I don't care what city you're in or what unit your working in the job is NOT 24/7 blood guts gore and stress. I've worked ICU, ER in a level 1 trauma center, ER in a childrens hospital and as a paramedic and I've never understood the kind of mentality presented in your post.

You want everyone to think that you have the most difficult job in the world. "Look at me, I work so hard and get so little recognition! Feel sorry for me!" Yes our job is tough. But don't make it out to be worse than it actually is to try and elicit sympathy from people who know better.

The part of your post that really irked me was in reference to your patients dying. First off this does NOT happen as often as many "look at me" nurses would like others to believe. 99.99% of my patients go home. At least 50% had nothing seriously wrong with them to begin with. And on that rare occasion that I do lose a patient I don't dwell on it for two reasons

1.) I give 110% to every patient I take care of. I like what I do and I am very good at it. When I do lose a patient, I go home knowing I did everything I could have and realize that his/her fate was in God's hands, NOT mine.

2.) I am just following orders. The ultimate direction of a patient's care is decided either by the doctor or protocol (which was probably written by a doctor). Very few places grant nurses a lot of autonomy and certainly none that I've worked at. I don't decide what medications to give, what tests get ordered, interpret x-rays or lab results. I make suggestions and point out things I think the provider may have missed but usually that is my only part in the decision making process.

For all those "look at me nurses" who want everyone to believe that every day we go to work we're knee deep in brain matter, please, turn off the *&!$ing TV.

[interluk]

Staying late charting...your fault
Missing breaks...your fault
Running like beheaded chicken...your fault
Yelled at...your fault
Feeling like shit...your fault

Listen-

When nurses;
learn to say, "no"
realize it's a 24/7 operation
start taking their breaks
start prioritizing their work
stop trying to meet foolish expectations
learn to confront abusers


And EVERY other nurse does the same...you'll suddenly find yourself actually liking what you do on a more regular basis.

Unfortunately, nursing has almost never said no to whatever new mandate or task came down the pike.

You see, if it isn't physician specific, it's simply grandfathered in to nursing.

Nursing is out of control, getting worse, and too many thousands of nurses have allowed it to get this way by just "being the good nurse."

So, I don't blame you for leaving.

But you're either enabling this bad behavior or you're stopping it.

Courage anyone?

[nursing sucks]

I, too, typed in I hate nursing and this is the site that popped up first. I was an aide for 2.5 years and I've been an LPN for 5.5 years. I decided to go back for my RN because my work was offering an RN degree fully paid for. And my reasoning was...get this....well I hate nursing, but might as well get paid more to do the same job. I work in a nursing home BTW.

I hate my job. I hate the thankless families and patients. Once in a while you get a nice family or patient and that's awesome. I get treated like crap by my nursing manager (who screamed at me in the hallway in front of patients and families and fellow staff that I'm lazy, lackadaisical, and I don't take my job seriously....she gave me like 10 things to do and I picked to count the drugs that came in from the pharmacy instead of cut someone's nails first....yeah I'll just leave the drugs out then you'll write me up for leaving drugs out). I hate the hours. I hate the holidays. I hate that people seem to think I'm a waitress/housekeeper/slave/sex object.

I hate how people think my job is so glamorous. I used to love my job but it's a soul sucker. I see the sneaky ways management steals money from Medicare....they make it look like someone needs something when they really don't. When I worked the 2-10 shift there were 2 nurses to care for 43 people. Now I work midnights. I am the only nurse for 43 people. Fun, really. I work midnights to get away from that sadistic nurse manager who lets certain nurses get away with not doing treatments, give meds, false charting, etc because she's busy helping (doing) the nurse manager's job. I get threatened with suspension for calling in, which I barely do. I've come to work with a fever. I take my temp at work and it was 101.5. I was told to take tylenol and if it didn't come down then I could go home. Otherwise I'd be written up. I barely remembered doing the med pass. Safe, huh?

My nursing home is one of the top in the area. I worked for 2 days at a sh*thole where I was treated even worse. My "mentor" kept telling me how much she hated her job, then she left mid shift, and I called the supervisor for help when a guy cut his arm and was bleeding all over the place and she wouldn't come help me. Too busy sleeping I guess?

Don't even get me started about nursing school and nursing instructors. When I got my LPN, my teachers were actually human and if you paid attention and didn't ask stupid questions they were nice and helpful. The teachers at the school I go to are vultures. I want to quit so badly....but now I'm stuck. I'll owe my work thousands of dollars if I quit now. I "failed" my 3rd semester nursing class with a 73. I was going to school 22-33 hours a week while working 40 hours. And if one more teacher at the school asks me why I don't just work part time or take time off I'll blow up the school. Well I just love nursing so much I work all those hours for fun! Obviously I have BILLS to pay. Plus I have to work so many hours to have my school paid for.

I have a year and a half left of school because I have to retake the 3rd semester and I'll have to split the 4th semester because of my work schedule.

Now I'll also have to work for my nursing home forever to pay them back and maybe then I'll get to work at some soul sucking hospital.

And please remember......I used to LOVE nursing. I loved that I needed to know skills to take care of people. I loved that I had experience helping people through end of life issues....could make it better for the family. I know I need to quit....but I'm now stuck.

I'm only 26 BTW.

[MoonRunX]

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[krakosabrokovich]

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[fancymom]

Wow. Do I feel your pain or what?!
I typed in "I hate being a nurse" and this site came up for me too. I have been a RN(I have my associate's degree, so I really can't do anything else) for 13 years and I hate it!! I don't think I hated it at first. My very first job out of nursing school was in the NICU. I worked 12hr nights(which sucked), but I loved the babies. Then, slowly, they wear you down. The doctors, the management, the administration, the patient's families...and then there's the hospital politics. After 9 years in the NICU I was done. Completely burned, so I tried home health. OMG! I have never heard so much whining in all my life! I read a post about home health nursing that was perfect. They don't give a crap if you drove 1-2 hours to get to their house and they are not home! They let their animals jump all over you, use you as their alarm clock, maid, and psychiatrist. That got old VERY fast! Only last a little over a year. I just don't know what to do next...

[fancymom]

You are the worst kind of nurse. Feeling like you might "let someone die" because you scarfed down a sandwich? Sensless dramatics.

This is NOT greys anatomy. I don't care what city you're in or what unit your working in the job is NOT 24/7 blood guts gore and stress. I've worked ICU, ER in a level 1 trauma center, ER in a childrens hospital and as a paramedic and I've never understood the kind of mentality presented in your post.

You want everyone to think that you have the most difficult job in the world. "Look at me, I work so hard and get so little recognition! Feel sorry for me!" Yes our job is tough. But don't make it out to be worse than it actually is to try and elicit sympathy from people who know better.

The part of your post that really irked me was in reference to your patients dying. First off this does NOT happen as often as many "look at me" nurses would like others to believe. 99.99% of my patients go home. At least 50% had nothing seriously wrong with them to begin with. And on that rare occasion that I do lose a patient I don't dwell on it for two reasons


OMG! What an ass!! There are actually nurses out here who do get treated like crap. So a nurse feels bad because a patient dies, and you say - get over it, it doesn't happen that often? You are a heartless bast*** and should get out of nursing.

[fancymom]

for all the people on this board that blame nursing for them having miserable lives.......get over it. your lives would be miserable with or without nursing. people go into nursing for the wrong reasons. did you think nursing was a glamorous 9-5 job? did you think nurses didn't clean poop or vomit? you complainers act like someone is putting a gun to your head to be a nurse. QUIT. please quit now. i don't want your miserable, complaining, lazy butts taking care of my family. i hope when YOU get sick and have to be hospitalized you get a nurse as miserable as you are. and yes, i am a RN. i am not always jumping for joy at my job, but i am realistic about the nursing profession and what comes with it. i don't work med/surg because i don't like floor nursing. so there is no excuse to complain. find another profession where you don't have to work with people. the nursing profession would not miss you.


Isn't it funny...the people who post bitchy comments don't register. They are just rude cowards. Nursing is HARD. Anybody who tells you different is lying.

[ferrari4sale]

Who the fuck would want to be a nurse, seriously. We all need nurses, but come on how can someone said that "i love being a nurse", that just crazy. I can not find one thing that i like about being a nurse, NOT ONE. I have been working in many different places from assembly line, retail store, receiving clerk, sitting infront of the computer 9 hours a day, so i know what i'm saying. If money is the driving force for being a nurse then i must feel very sorry for your life. Because while other got to spend time with their family, friends, lover, you will be lonely.

[needachange]

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I realize that this post is a few years old...hoping you have found your way out of nursing or at least found a nursing job that will allow you some sanity in what you are doing. I am a nurse, and I hate every nursing job that I have ever worked. I don't hate the patients, but I hate the way hospitals and clinics are run. It seems to be all about making money, dollars and cents, and trying to stay below budget. In my ten years being a nurse, I have sadly concluded that nursing is not about caring for people or showing a little compassion, hopefully traits that we all possessed when we chose to go into nursing in the first place. I went into nursing to try to make a decent living and more importantly because I care and I want to help people. I have not found a nursing job that will allow me to care. I am saddened because I have become cold and uncaring towards people. This is not me; this is not what I want to be. But it is what I have to be if I am going to make it in the nursing jobs that I have held. The managers I have had do not care, about patients or their staff...oops, I mean team because somehow everywhere I have worked, you are not staff, you are part of a team...could have fooled me. I have had managers actually make fun of patients, within ear shot of the patient and their family. I got into trouble for taking a day off because my very ill Father was having a pacemaker placed and I felt I needed to be with my Mother...and then hospitals and clinics can't figure out why there is a "nursing shortage"? News flash...there is not a nursing shortage; there is a shortage of good nursing jobs.

I am so thankful to those of you who have posted your experiences; I am so thankful that I found this web site. Since becoming an RN, I have felt like the biggest loser ever...I have jumped from one job to the next, called in sick more than I care to admit, and tried to drag my heels for as long as possible between jobs. My resume is a joke...from one job to the next, to the next, to the next...I keep hoping to find just one nursing job that will allow me to care, and a few minutes for a bathroom break during a 12 plus hour shift would be a huge bonus.

To all of your nurses and aids, hang in there and please do not stop caring! I fully understand anyone who comes to the tough decision to leave nursing. I am sad to say that might be the path for me if I am to keep what's left of my sanity.

[steph797]

I just came across this post by googling PICU nursing, as I have an interview for a PICU RN position this coming week. I called in sick to my current job not too long ago in an effort to claim some well earned PTO that is going to go to waste when I (hopefully) transfer to another hospital (it's nearly impossible to get approved PTO for an actual vacation on my floor). I've been a nurse for a little over a year on an adult GI med-surg floor and I hate it! I can never sleep well the night before work because I stress over thinking about how many patients I will have or how many addicts I will have that just want IV pain medication every 2 hours...will I have rude patients again? Patients that don't appreciate the free medical treatment they are receiving and are going to go home and wind up back within a month or two? Crazy family to deal with? The list goes on. I am a very sensitive, friendly, hard working person that does not want to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day-nursing sounded perfect-and it would be if there weren't so many crazy people in the world, mean doctors, and if hospitals were more concerned with quality patient care as opposed to money. A fellow RN put it best when we were wondering why half of our patients are absolutely nuts; for the most part crazy people don't take care of themselves like normal people do. I am desperate to get off of the med-surg floor I am on where 6 patients is the norm, and am hoping that the PICU will at least be tolerable as I will get to focus care on fewer patients and I liked pediatrics and L&D during clinicals in nursing school. I am thinking it will be more rewarding as the kids and their families will actually need and want help, and in most cases did not bring their illnesses upon themselves. I will be switching to the night shift which will hopefully be less stressful while I'm adjusting to such a big change, although staying awake until 8am seems awful and I'm not too keen on the possibility of my lifespan being cut short by 10 years. If this job doesn't work out I will be going back to school for something else, life is short and I don't want to spend it hating my job. Nurses are definitely overworked, it takes a "special" kind of person to be a floor nurse, you have to be crazy or enjoy being stressed for long periods of time. Being a CNA is no better, instead of doctors you deal with certain nurses that think because they have their RN they are superior to their co-workers. Having 10 patients and being expected to do 10 bed baths, linen changes, checking and cleaning incontinent patients every 2 hours, plus answering all the lights etc. is just impossible!

Something really should be done about the way nurses and cnas are treated. I think it really boils down to the fact that hospitals need to lower the number of patients nurses and cnas have and focus on establishing better relationships with the doctors. There is a doctor at the hospital I work at that actually wrapped his hands around a nurse's neck and *shocking* he still works there! Imagine if a nurse did that to a doctor?
It's impossible to provide SAFE care to patients when you barely see them throughout the shift! Don't see anything changing anytime soon though... :-/

[Skercodyderce]

I was curious how many job insurance companies are out there for Railroad Employees. The coverage Im referring to in the insurance you pay for and collect when you get into trouble at work. I know of UTU, LECMPA, BRCF and CPA but are there any others?

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[SonHienteeGof]

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