i'm glad you were able to get out of it. it's no better anywhere i've been. not all nurses are nutcases or cruel bitches. but most are as you've found out. and no. noone cares when a nurse breaks down. they use the same tactic of escorting them out of the building. usually they have security do it. and put on a big show to make it look like they are protecting everybody from a deranged person or something. i hope that nurse found her way to something better. i am bound and determined to find a job out of the health care field too. for now i'm going to get back into some homecare to tide me over til i can find something else. your life has got to at least be more pleasant now. hopefully you found a much better career. having been in the service to defend your country should help you. i dont know if it does. it just should.

I see by your "story" you are one of the many that don't understand what being a Nurse really means. Like yourself, many have entered the Nursing Profession lately for all the wrong reasons. I truly believe it is a calling, not just a job someone may think they will try or because it's in demand & they think it's a quick easy buck. I have been a Nurse for 32 years & my husband one for 15. I always knew I wanted to take care of people, it was a second nature to me. I've been around long enough to do all the crap jobs, but caring for people, no matter where they are...ICU, Long Term Care, Newborn Nursery.... is innate & you either have it or you don't.
I suggest if someone is considering entering the Nursing Profession, they need to look within themself & ask if they can accept the responsibility of this wonderful Profession.

I don't have to read your entire comment to feel for you. I'm not a nurse but I feel like shit all the time too. I don't mean to sound cold, but get over it friend. I've worked for the Army for the last nine years and I'm tired too. Back-track to Air Force and it's seventeen years. The work is fairly easy. It's the cronyism, apathy and abuse that's tiring. The WORLD does this to us. So I'll repeat... GET OVER IT. No one in the military CARES!!!

I hear you my friend!!

Nursing blows!!

-male RN

Good for you tha tyou decided ot get out of this hellacious bash-each-other profession. I tried to com eup with programs that would improve morale and regain nurse credibility and recognition, but an old nurse up the chain bashedmy ideas saying I was out to save the world. Now, guess who's stole my ideas and is trying to implement them to get Lt Col in the Air Force??? This is an eat-shit world where no one cares about one another. I hope they think about this on their death beds.

Yeah man I feel for you. I am a navy nurse and have actually had a good experience. Our "senior nurse exectutive" loathed male nurses, so she stuck all of us together on the same ward. It was freaking great. It drove her crazy that we were all happy up there. There was no back stabbing, no meetings that lasted longer than 15 mins, and no rivalries. Report on all patients was done in 10 to 15 mins tops. If you needed a day off, someone would always switch, and most importantly you didnt have to worry about the previous shift leaving all sorts of shit for you to clean up, if we needed to stay and help for a bit we did and didnt bitch about it. If something was broken we fixed it. We didnt form a fucking committee to determine what kind of office supplies or adult diapers we should get! The problem, at least from my military experience, is that it is still dominated by men-hating women that haven't taken care of a patient in 10-15 years. I am sure this is much worse in the civilian community but at this naval hospital us "murses" stick together. 90% of us are prior enlisted so we know what its like to work hard for no money. Hell, at least now we get 0-3 pay! Its the dinosaur women that begin to resemble men you have to look out for. My wife is a nurse too and I cant believe all the petty bullshit she has to put up with. Lucky for her she is really good at what she does, she just flat out tells coworkers, administration or doctors what she thinks. Its pretty funny actually. As for the navy job itself, its not bad and its not great. Probably just like any job. sure you can feel overwhelmed at times but if you have good coworkers (ie not a bunch of lazy, bitchy women) 12 hours go by pretty quick and you end up with some golfing buddies. I know at some point it will be shitty again but I want that retirement that you already have plus they are paying for my PNP. I dont plan on nursing after my military career, maybe just do the PNP thing for a while or go back and become a teacher so i can have summers off with the kids.

the absolute truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Unregistered [/i]
[B]I see by your "story" you are one of the many that don't understand what being a Nurse really means. Like yourself, many have entered the Nursing Profession lately for all the wrong reasons. I truly believe it is a calling, not just a job someone may think they will try or because it's in demand & they think it's a quick easy buck. I have been a Nurse for 32 years & my husband one for 15. I always knew I wanted to take care of people, it was a second nature to me. I've been around long enough to do all the crap jobs, but caring for people, no matter where they are...ICU, Long Term Care, Newborn Nursery.... is innate & you either have it or you don't.
I suggest if someone is considering entering the Nursing Profession, they need to look within themself & ask if they can accept the responsibility of this wonderful Profession. [/B][/QUOTE]

A calling to what? The gates of HELL.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Unregistered [/i]
[B]I don't have to read your entire comment to feel for you. I'm not a nurse but I feel like shit all the time too. I don't mean to sound cold, but get over it friend. I've worked for the Army for the last nine years and I'm tired too. Back-track to Air Force and it's seventeen years. The work is fairly easy. It's the cronyism, apathy and abuse that's tiring. The WORLD does this to us. So I'll repeat... GET OVER IT. No one in the military CARES!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

Don't open your mouth, cause you talk shit fuck wit. The Air Force is a breeze compared to nursing, so is the Army.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Unregistered [/i]
[B]A calling to what? The gates of HELL. [/B][/QUOTE]

No. A mental and physical breakdown, plus an early death.