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Job Story: I hate nursing too.....RN, BSN (Registered Bull Sh-t Nurse)

I only do it for the money. I have been in 10 different nursing jobs and would rather be an artist but always needed to make money for someone else. now i'm almost 50 and still hate it. thanks for the venting. Its been a hell of a day. Everyone wants a flu shot and i dont have any!r

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Only the American sick bizness could turn what should be helping others, into such a nighmare. Before I worked nursing I worked in some machine shops that turned out about 50% defective products (scrap). But this is nothing compared to what we in hospitals are forced to do to the individuals on their assembly lines.

We're on board the medical Titanic and listing downward and to the side fast.

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How many years of experience do you have that you
earn $38./ hr?
Are you agency? or non-benefitted?

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I'm going to graduate from nursing school this may, and i'm really bummed, because i don't think this is the career for me. Throughout school, the majority of nurses i've met have been some of the most miserable people i've ever seen in my life, and that includes the patients. I started this because I do like to help and take care of people, and there is good money and lots of opportunity in nursing....after spending time in hospitals on my clinical rotations, I don't think there's much chance to help too many people at all. I think I will become burnt out fairly quick once I get my license, which is the reason i'm already thinking of what kind of career change i can make after a few years of nursing. Maybe it's just me and i'm not cut out for it, and i have met some wonderful nurses, but the majority seem pretty miserable, and i'd like to avoid that. It's sad, really, because nursing is suppose to be a noble career, and from what i've seen it's really just full of stress.

Also, to any nursing instructors out there.......I'm 30 years old, already have a B.A., have travelled to various parts of the world, lived in various parts of this country........based on my own program and from what i've read, the average age of graduating nurses is 31, so most of your students are a lot like me.......why the hell do you insist on treating grown adults like children?? I fully admit that any nursing instructor (any nurse, period), has tons more knowledge and skill than I, but many of you are downright ignorant the way you treat students. This isn't highschool, and that attitude is a part of the reason I don't think I want to be a nurse anymore. If nothing else it's common courtesy to treat people with respect, which many instructors don't do.
Well, i've said my peace.

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So if we all hate nursing... what else can we do with our education?

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I want to thank you for your honesty. For years, I thought I wanted to be a nurse, so that I could truly feel like I was helping people. I always thought it would be a really fulfilling career, not thinking about the stress, the arrogant doctors and the sometimes lousy hours.

Someone PLEASE tell me that I'm not missing anything by not being a nurse! I work in mortgages, and that's not very fulfilling either.

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Then you would be going from a not so fullfilling career, to a rather killing career, long term.

Do yourself a favor, and take a job as a CNA in a run of the mill nursing home part time, if you can arrange it. Tell them you are thinking about going into nursing. This is actually an easy way (relatively) to get a taste of nursing without investing too much beforehand. Do not pick the best nursing home, but an average one.

That should give you something to think about, as far as to how unfullfilling a job can truly come to be. A shame really, since helping the elderly should not be like a CNA job is made into.

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To gojack 10,

Thank you for the excellent suggestion. I live in Michigan, and there is actually a school that you can become a CNA in only 8 weeks. I used to be a dental assistant for a company that went to different nursing homes to provide dentistry to the residents, but I'm sure that is different than being a CNA. I am already 48 years old, and I am afraid that I will get to retirement age and feel like I didn't accomplish a thing in my life!

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If you are 48, I would strongly recommend that you not get into investing into a nursing career. Nursing is a non-friendly environment in general, but especially to those getting up there in years.

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I am in the nursing program, it feels so good to know there are people who actually feels like i do. I am not having a problem in the clinicals, my problem is the freakin instructors, in the freakin shool, i mean "ARE THEY WITH US OR AGAINST US" not to mention the passing grade is 79 which is a "C" at my school. I made a mistake majoring in nursing, also going to this particular school...i am in the border line of felling/passing, i feel so discouraged that i don't know what to do. Why are the instructors asholes, i mean they've been through what we are going through, why make it difficult more than it is. I also typed i hate nursing and this website came out....wish me luck ppl, i just can't fell, as you know i have to wait a whole year to get back in the program.
Naomi

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Naomi--Sometimes not getting what we think we want is an incredible stroke of good luck.

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I have been in the field of nursing for years and I love it. It takes a certian person to be a nurse and if you don't have the ability to deal with stress then get out of nursing.

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I love working with people and have enjoyed much about nursing school. I do however agree that the nursing instructors for the most part are not very good at their jobs. I too have a BS and I am in the process of writing my Master's thesis and attending nursing school. I have never felt as if someone was so against me. Not to mention my instructors and everyone in the class is another ethnicity than me and I have heard more racial slurs against my "kind". Unfortunatly, this is what I must do to become a nurse and because I have wanted this for so long I will do whatever I have to do to get there. I have to study now. Good luck all you nursing students!

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If you can't stand the heat...

For those burned out, whiny nurses out there I just want to remind you that you have many choices. First of all, you do not have to continue to work as a nurse if you in fact hate the job.
Second, unlike other professions in the medical field, as a nurse you have a multitude of other options to further your career such as management or pursuing a graduate degree as nurse practitioner. It is very easy to stand back and lay the blame on the profession, however it is healthier to be proactive and make a change BEFORE you ever get to the point of hating your profession. To me, being a nurse is the essential element in the total healthcare equation. Furthermore, the core of a true nursing practice is compassion for others and willingness to care. Florence Nightingale was right: the work of a nurse is truly a Holy experience. Have mercy on the nursing profession and do yourself and your patients a big favor if you hate nursing....get out!

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I'm going to graduate from nursing school this may, and i'm really bummed, because i don't think this is the career for me. Throughout school, the majority of nurses i've met have been some of the most miserable people i've ever seen in my life, and that includes the patients. I started this because I do like to help and take care of people, and there is good money and lots of opportunity in nursing....after spending time in hospitals on my clinical rotations, I don't think there's much chance to help too many people at all. I think I will become burnt out fairly quick once I get my license, which is the reason i'm already thinking of what kind of career change i can make after a few years of nursing. Maybe it's just me and i'm not cut out for it, and i have met some wonderful nurses, but the majority seem pretty miserable, and i'd like to avoid that. It's sad, really, because nursing is suppose to be a noble career, and from what i've seen it's really just full of stress.

Also, to any nursing instructors out there.......I'm 30 years old, already have a B.A., have travelled to various parts of the world, lived in various parts of this country........based on my own program and from what i've read, the average age of graduating nurses is 31, so most of your students are a lot like me.......why the hell do you insist on treating grown adults like children?? I fully admit that any nursing instructor (any nurse, period), has tons more knowledge and skill than I, but many of you are downright ignorant the way you treat students. This isn't highschool, and that attitude is a part of the reason I don't think I want to be a nurse anymore. If nothing else it's common courtesy to treat people with respect, which many instructors don't do.
Well, i've said my peace.

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If you are 48, I would strongly recommend that you not get into investing into a nursing career. Nursing is a non-friendly environment in general, but especially to those getting up there in years.

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I am in the nursing program, it feels so good to know there are people who actually feels like i do. I am not having a problem in the clinicals, my problem is the freakin instructors, in the freakin shool, i mean "ARE THEY WITH US OR AGAINST US" not to mention the passing grade is 79 which is a "C" at my school. I made a mistake majoring in nursing, also going to this particular school...i am in the border line of felling/passing, i feel so discouraged that i don't know what to do. Why are the instructors asholes, i mean they've been through what we are going through, why make it difficult more than it is. I also typed i hate nursing and this website came out....wish me luck ppl, i just can't fell, as you know i have to wait a whole year to get back in the program.
Naomi

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Your Nursing instructors are assholes so you can get used to your future managers. If you are young, do something else. I am 48 yrs old, have been a Nurse for 12 yrs...I am tired. I have worked in various jobs, and thought I could not find the right job. I am the "main provider" in my family...after all Nurses make good money and have good benefits! Between the managers (who are Nurses too...just trying to "ride it out" and get to retirement), the patients, the families of patients (who are nasty to Nurses because health care costs so much, and they need a whipping dog), the "Yes I am God" administration (who work their poor Nurses to death to save a buck any way they can...it's all about money honey!), and the poor patients (the ones who aren't nasty or "frequent flyers"...like the poor folks in nursing homes) who suffer because they pay 30,000$ (or more) a year...lose their homes and identities...to stay in understaffed (by the "it's all about money honey" administrations/corporations) Nursing warehouse's (commonly refered to as Nursing Homes/Assisted Living)...I am just plain sick of it all, I've seen too much. I will say that I have been lucky with my piers, my fellow Nurses trying to survive, for the most part we stick together. We are all tired, and I bet if I took a survey it would be the majority that says "If I had it to do again, I wouldn't be a Nurse". It's a shame, really, that business has taking an admirable profession and squeezed the life out it...by understaffing, understaffing, understaffing....cutting corners, and more cutting corners...and then they "ride you" because you are not "dotting all your I's and crossing all your T's"...after all we have to pass the Federal and State surveys. I wish, sometimes, I could give minimal care...but I am a person that has to "do my best"...and it's killing me. I have GI problems, fibromyalgia, asthma, aches and pains everywhere, I over eat, can't sleep, and have headaches all the time! I feel very old at 48 yrs. and I have only been a Nurse 12 years! I know Nurses that get Lupus, MS, Cancer..and other odd assortments of autoimmune diseases. In the beginning I would fear I would forget to document something..."THEY" might take my license! Well I don't cut corners on patient care, but if I fail at "documentation" I say take the damn thing (my license) it just might get me out of this nightmare. I say if you are smart take those college credits, transfer them, and do something else. Just don't pick Social Worker, I know quite a few of them that are in the same "burn out" boats as Nurses.

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Thanx for the reply.....unfortunately i am not that young i am 27 and i have been in college 5yrs already.

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Thanx for the reply.....unfortunately i am not that young i am 27 and i have been in college 5yrs already.

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For those burned out, whiny nurses out there I just want to remind you that you have many choices. First of all, you do not have to continue to work as a nurse if you in fact hate the job.
Second, unlike other professions in the medical field, as a nurse you have a multitude of other options to further your career such as management or pursuing a graduate degree as nurse practitioner. It is very easy to stand back and lay the blame on the profession, however it is healthier to be proactive and make a change BEFORE you ever get to the point of hating your profession. To me, being a nurse is the essential element in the total healthcare equation. Furthermore, the core of a true nursing practice is compassion for others and willingness to care. Florence Nightingale was right: the work of a nurse is truly a Holy experience. Have mercy on the nursing profession and do yourself and your patients a big favor if you hate nursing....get out!

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You tell 'em, Tranquil!

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thanks gojack. i do find some twisted form of great pleasure in telling off those people that think they are sooo much above everyone else.

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<<thanks gojack. i do find some twisted form of great pleasure in telling off those people that think they are sooo much above everyone else.>>

.......of which there are way too many with RN written somewhere on their name tags, amongst all the others of like ilk. You are welcome, Tranquil.

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After 20 years of being an RN,BSN, I'm done. The covertness of the sick people with whom I dealt, and I'm not talking about the patients, was enough. I'm very happy selling health insurance for a 50 year old international company. There is more respect, better working conditions, more autonomy, and better income. You do have to be a self starter, but I've always been one. It's never too late to leave a miserable situation, I'm 58. If you dislike nursing as much as I did, then get out. Life is too short to spend one more miserable day!

Cheers,

Paul

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