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I have been a nurse for ten years. I started as an LPN and thought I would be treated better if I became an RN. Big mistake. Treated just as badly, but now I'm responsible for everything and everybody.<br />
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I agree w/ all the nurses who've posted on this board. Nursing is the most awful, terrible, disappointing, disillusioning mistake a person can do in the name of wanting to "help" others and make a living at it.<br />
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You are blamed for everything and thanked for nothing. You may work like a dog for years, never take breaks, give it your heart, your soul, your blood, sweat and tears, and ruin your back. In the end, you'll be shit on. You'll end up a bitter old person w/ a bad back.<br />
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What nursing is SUPPOSED to be and SHOULD be is a wondeful thing. But, what it IS bites the big one. <br />
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May we all be blessed in our struggle to find a way out of the hell that nursing has become.

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RN- Clinical Resource Coordinator. 10 years. I love to be a part of advocating for health care changes that will make for best patient and resident centered care and outcomes. Playing the games with numbers and graphs needed to "prove" what Nurses can quickly tell anyone needs to be in place to best care for patients/Residents. Fighting over limited resources- Money, to accomplish goals. I consider quitting on those days where I feel powerless, related to previously stated issues, and power hungry controlling leaders and peers that want credit for my ideas and hard work. I love what I do when it can have enough positive outcomes to balance the negitive. I love Mentoring in Leadership and all levels of Nursing. I Love my direct "Boss", she is my Mentor and inspiration. In five years I want to advance in an Administrative role to, directly effect changes that result in bedside advocacy and Nursing Proffession advocacy. The same thing just stated, with more focus on mentoring and change facilitation. I value my creativety and out of the box qualitys. Rural Michigan. "Thumb" area.

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My job is as r.n.assigned to aresidental treatment unit and csu in a state prison. There is never adequate staffing with one nurse required to pass medication for on the average of 75inmates,and to provide crisis coverage forthe crisis stabilization and allthe charting,orders and coverage for the cell blocks and compound. 2 of my 5 shifts there is just memyself and i. I have gone to administration numerous times to express how unsafe i feel the staffing is but all i ever get is we are trying,this statement made when there are 4 nurses sometimes 5workingdayshift which i relieve. Add to this the stress of the security staff resenting oursalaryand attempting nursing decisions. I have worked in this job for a total of almost 7 years and if it were notfor $30 hour i would be gonebut i fear if i stay my r.n.isin danger. I am angryand burnout and i do notsee it getting any better. I am sittinghere today debating weather i should go in this afternoon or call in sick because i am truly sickand tired of itall most of all administrators thatoversee me but do not even understandwhatmyjobis about

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I have seen everything your post discusses. It's frighteningly accurate, and I hope that it does not drive me from the field in a few years, too. Aren't there other positions to which you could transfer? Maybe you just need a change of setting...

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I am an OR nurse. I have been a nurse for 15 year and I am in major BURNOUT! I see it not only affecting my mental heath but also physical. I honestly feel ill knowing that I am going back to the rush rush rush and never doing a good enough job to suit the physicians job tomorrow. (I have been off for a funeral for a few days). I am sick and tired of hearing that better pay would attract more nurses. Hogwash!! Just let us complete a normal workday and not be "EXPECTED" to stay late because a doctor wants to schedule cases "convenient" for his lifestyle. I am really considering giving up all the benefits that I have in my current job and seeking several prn positions to acheive my pay requirements for bills. I used to think of nursing as a way to help people. And the precious time that I actually get to hold a person's hand and make a difference to their day is still a reminder of why I became a nurse. But with shortages and cutbacks and mandatory overtime and on call requirements....I have found that I resent my job and the time it takes away from my family and often this comes through in my job performance. I went in to nursing to take care of patients, not to baby an pamper immature physicians with GOD complexes who think they have the right to shout and treat nurses with less respect than they do their dog. Yes.....this is major BURNOUT and each and every sentiment written by the original author of this posting applies to this nurse ready to seek a different career. I would desperately like to do home health where I could see the person in their natural living environment and hopefully make a difference.

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God bless you all who acknowledge that nursing is hard. My job is always nagging on my overtime. I don't want to do overtime. I got a life and am going to school but in nursing, anything can happen in the blink of an eye. What then? I refuse to clock out and work for free when I got tons of charting to do. You have families to deal with over and over again. The sucky part is you can't yell back because that constitutes abuse. What about the abuse they place on us? There needs to be a nursing abuse guideline. I leaving nursing in the next couple of years and not regret it one bit. Right now, I do it all for the money.

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I am relieved to know that there are nurses out there who have the same feelings I do. I have been an RN for five long years. What a disapointment. I am tired oif finding all the excuses in the world to call-in sick. I do not even have sick ime left because I have used it all up. I now work only 60% because I can't stand going into the hospital to care for the patients I truly love.<br />
I feel so ashamed because I am aware of the type of employee I am, but the job environment is so stressful. I spend half the day trying to teach meducal students and residents about stuff that they should already know. Management will drain you dry if you let them..(which I think I did). I am so fed up. I start school in the fall and can't wait to get away from bedside nursing.<br />
Please know that I care for my patients.

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I have been an RN for more than 20 years. The stress, misery and abuse I suffered at the hands of administration, physcians and fellow nurses are a crime against humanity.<br />
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Nursing is the only profession that I can think of where the more education, experience and responsibility that you take on actually results in your being paid less than the simple staff nurse makes for putting in his/her normal shift.<br />
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I used to be so depressed and emotionally exhausted that I would actually fantize that some car would run a red light and smash into my car so that I could go to the hospital as a patient and NOT have to work and expose myself to the stress of the unit that night. Is this not the most pathetic thing that you have ever heard?<br />
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Ah, yes. As a nurse, you are told by administration that you are a "professional" and as such, they expect you to complete professional levels of education, hold pofessional licences, complete professional continuing education each year, adhere to professional standards, assume professional responsibilities and represent your facility/employer as a professional. <br />
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Fine and dandy; how about recieving some of the pay and perks of being a "professional"?? No, that is a different story. When you try to stand up for yourself and for your future as a professional, you have no power and no voice. Administration immediately slaps you down and informs you that you are an hourly employee and if you do not like what is handed to you, your job is threatened and you are told that you can "hit the road". <br />
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Does this sound like being a true professional? Hell no!! A nurse is only a "professional" as long as it fits the agenda of the doctors and the administrators.<br />
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I used to become so depressed about being a nurse. Like many other nurses, I hated it beyond the meaning of the word. I remember thumbing through the yellow pages trying desperately to identify some job, ANY job wherein I could use my nursing education, skills and knowledge in some profession OTHER than actual nursing.<br />
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I searched for more than 10 years to find that niche and finally, I am not even really sure how, I actually DID find something that I thought would get me out of the hospital and into a normal, healthy life.<br />
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At first, I tried to calculate how little I could get by on. Like all other nurses, I had been trained and brainwashed into believing that I had to be an employee to find work. I intially had to get past that mentality and, I admit, it was a tough process for me.<br />
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I figured that if I could only make $500 per week, I could eke out a life for myself. I began my new business and used my nursing skills and knowledge every day and with every client.<br />
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I started out with virtually NO recognition and nobody knew me or my service. I found out immediately that there really WAS a demand for what I had to offer. The really wierd thing was that NO other nurse was offering my service!! The telephone calls began to flood in. <br />
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My first year, I was shocked that I actually matched what I had made as a nurse working in a hospital with more than 20 years of experience. My secound year, I made $75,000. I am now headed into the beginning of my forth year and believe it or not, I am actually making what the US Dept of Labor lists as the average income of a Internal Medicine and OB/GYN doctor!!<br />
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For the first time in my miserable career as a nurse, I actually FEEL like a professional and EARN professional pay. You have no idea how strange a feeling it is when I meet up with many of the docs that I once worked with and secrtly know that I make as much, if not more, money per year than they do.<br />
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I am in the process of writing a book on my experiences. My book will give other nurses a step by step guide on how to start their own business and begin a wonderful new life for themselves and their families. A life rich with opportunity that will allow them to still work as a nurse but without all the emotional and physical pathology than comes with the traditional "pigeon hole" positions designed for nurses by doctors and hospital administrators to line their own pockets and finance their own rich lifestyles.<br />
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My book will not be finished for a few months but anybody interested in hearing about it when it is completed may email me.<br />
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I wish each of my fellow nurses the opportunity to have a quality of life and not have to start over with years of education and retraining to find it. Please do not dispair, the answers truly are out there, if you just know where to look.<br />

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Thank you so much for writing this letter. Being a nurse 7 years now, I feel the same way. And what's worse, I worked in a hospital 4 years BEFORE I graduated from Nursing School. Talk about tired of shift work!!!! I agree with everything posted here. I first worked as a staff nurse and then moved to home health for about a year. After that I went back to the floor to find things had gotten worse. I then left that position for my most current position of Utilization/Case Management. Talk about being a secretary for the physicians!!!! I've been told that my position should be "accommodating" for the physicians and to "do what I can for them". Also that they are our "customers". When am I ever the customer??? I mean I once had to leave my office, walk across the hospital campus, and DIAL a phone number so that the physician could talk to another physician!!!!! My superiors see this as expected. Not only has my very misunderstood and UNDER appreciated position been subject to scrutiny from administration and physicians, but also OTHER NURSES contribute their own unfair treatment of my position. (Of course I can see where they are just as stressed as I am with no one to take it out on). I also find myself seeking jobs in other fields that may benefit from my nursing experience. I've been told by many, "You're a nurse, you can get a job anywhere!" But is that what I truly want, to trade in one headache for another? Thanks, but no thanks. I think I'll just keep looking.

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I have been an RN since 1990 and an LPN for 2 years prior to that [ most of those years as a single mom to 4 sons]<br />
The thoughts, feelings and testimonials here all totally resonate with me!!! I can capsulate my experience as an RN in two ways. The positives are that I love nursing so much that I have spent the last 13 years writing a nursing reference manual [ now at 1400 pages ]. I love the concept of offering support to hurting human beings, facilitating their healing and being both advocate and teacher for them. Those moments of hands on care, the tears shared, the whispered words of 'thank you', the suffering alleviated with a timely intervention, the hand held as a life slips away; these are the things that have kept me in nursing. But they are not enough to offset or negate what I am about to share.<br />
I see the cynicism and burnout of my fellow workers. I am disheartened by the amount of gossip and backbiting that occurs in my unit. Most of which comes from individuals that are otherwise pretty good folks on the 'outside'. The patient loads are getting heavier and heavier. Not just by the numbers but by the complexities of multiple disease processes and interventions. The paperwork is redundant to the extreme and even my personal unpaid attempt to devise a more concise and complete charting form was summarily dismissed [ after over 8000 minutes of computer time]. The politics are akin to the TV reality show SURVIVOR where alliances are made through duplicity and insincerity creating a sense in me that you can really trust no one. I see favoritism in extending educational opportunities. I have been turned down 2 years in a row for local, inexpensive conferences . I was told the education budget was depleted. Yet 2 childless nurses were allowed to go to a Las Vegas Pediatric conference and we are not even a pediatric unit!!. Most of our physicians are really wonderful and treat the nurses with respect, value their input and treat them as co workers. There are a few that are contemptuous, condescending and abrupt [ which I have written up ] I haven’t seen any particular change in these physicians. The administration makes token comments about valuing teamwork, respect, honesty etc and valuing their nursing staff but I have not seen the reality of that. I originally applied for a critical care position , having had extensive training courses at another hospital and having the goal of working as a critical care nurse since nursing school. I was told they only wanted experienced CCU nurses. Recently they hired a new grad out of school. Go figure.<br />
This all came to a head for me recently this last week when short staffed I was nearly at the melting point in mental fatigue, exhaustion and burnout. I had a small group of patients but all with multiple [ and LEGITIMATE ] needs, requests etc and no CNA to help with tasks. I work 12 hour shifts and I don't think my butt even touched a chair for 5 hours to chart all that I am required by law to document. Because we either don't have or don't utilize an acuity rating system, sometimes there is a huge disparity in patient assignments in my small 12 bed unit. I can't even count the number of time I have felt like I was drowning only to pass the nurses station and see the charge nurse on the phone gabbing with her sister, another doing a crossword puzzle etc. There have been times my load was lighter and another nurse was in my shoes. I make it a point to observe my team members and if I see this and I am not particularly busy, jump up and offer help. Some do this for me but others would just as soon sit and talk.<br />
Anyway I made the mistake of explaining the reason for my infrequent visits to a patient family in that we were short staffed that day. They thanked me for all the compassionate care I gave their terminal mother but apparently called administration and voiced a concern [ probably on my behalf ] My manager called me into the break room and severely reprimanded me in front of the charge nurse for that day. This charge nurse is a wonderful lady in many ways, a good competent nurse, young, bright, funny but is the single biggest gossip on our unit. I have received many positive patient satisfaction cards over the 2 years this unit has been open in our brand new facility. But how in the world can you give great care when you are stretched so thin. Instead of validating my feelings and the reality of our staffing my manager suggested I get counseling for the burnout. My concerns in that meeting were minimized and dismissed and was turned back onto me as being inadequate for the job. The unspoken message was 'get some counseling so you can handle the stress ' rather than 'let's legitimize this nurses' concerns and find out ways we can create a nurturing, growth producing culture. She was very threatening and heavy handed in this 'session'. I kept my cool and did not get emotional but it was a real eye opener.<br />
We are being regulated to the maximum when it comes to patient privacy [ we can't even put patient names on the front of the chart !!! ] but what about my privacy and confidentiality in this ‘meeting’ ? What about the total lack of having a voice when it comes to valid suggestions about things [ some minor and easy to fix ]. I gave a nicely typewritten list to our new manager, waited 2 weeks and softly asked her if she had had time to look it over. She said "yes. I was overwhelmed" and turned around and walked away.<br />
In essence I feel like a glorified hand servant without any validity in decision making about my work environment. Now, because I voiced concerns over patient safety and staffing and have broken down in tears [ in the break room ] at least once I have been labeled a complainer and troublemaker. I dread going to work. I am sick of the apathy and indifference by some. I notice the absenteeism and wonder how so many can be so sick so often. I hear the gossip behind others backs and see the ingenuine courtesy to their faces. I see the power plays and undermining just to get close to the manager. I see nurses eating their young by the handfuls. Demonstrating frustration to each other because their are no legitimized safe outlets for them. I AM DONE!!!!!!! I think I would rather wash cars for a paycheck than do this another day [ yeah and at 48 years old I just bought my first home 3 weeks ago ]. I was accepted into a baccalaureate program last year and even received a full scholarship based on my excellent college grades. My hopes were to eventually get a Master’s degree and teach, mentor and encourage others to pursue nursing as an honorable vocation. Now I sincerely question that dream.<br />
I don't expect stress free work but YIKES!!! We have to do more with less, smile and stuff it because of the fear we will be labeled, demoted or even terminated. Yes, I too will soon be just another nursing statistic.

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I have been a nurse for over 10 years. Each year brings new disappointments in nursing. I love this profession, but long hours, lack of respect and autonomy has just about put me over the edge. I continually chase physicians for orders, take patient complaints about lack of staffing and not meeting their needs, and most of all the long paperwork. Yes, I agree that some care plans are necessary to meet the JCAHO standards, but other forms of useless information is redundant. I am continuing on with education...Health Care Management to make a difference. I fully understand your position and only hope that if you have a love of this profession, I and others will make a difference so that upon your return it is noticeable. God Bless You

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I so appreciate all the comments I have read. I am a first semester nursing student and I already have the same feelings and have experieced some of the same instances I've read about here. <br />
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Does anyone have any advice for a person who is in her fifties and embarking on a new career in nursing? I have a feeling deep in my bones that this isn't the path I should take, but all the money, time and hard work I've invested, I feel trapped already. <br />
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I worry also about disappointing my family if I quit. I am not afraid of hard work, scholastically or physically, but the stress I have experienced already has made me wonder if this choice is a mistake.<br />
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I had hoped to escape the frustrations of life as a secretary. I know nursing would be better money, but is it worth it? I welcome your comments.

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I have been an L.P.N. for 8 years. I am sick to death of the whole nursing profession. I could take my clinicals for my R.N., but I have decided to get out of healthcare altogether. I feel badly because I have wasted so much money to become a registered nurse.

I thought that becoming a nurse was what I wanted to do in life. I love to take care of people. However, when I became a nurse I had no clue what was ahead for me.

The first few years I was an L.P.N. someone would have had to hit me over the head to take a sick day. Now, the thought of going out there and working the floor as a nurse makes me cringe!

I have done just about everything from long-term care to hospitals. They are all the same. It is always give more, more, more. I reached a point about a year ago where I began having anxiety attacks. I had one at work one very stressful day. That was the last day I worked the floor as a nurse. Working conditions are terrible. There are too many patients with critical needs and not enough help to do the things that need to be done. I felt like such a failure. I think it is wrong to prioritize a patient's needs, but that was exactly what I was doing. I felt that everyday I worked the floor as a nurse I was putting my license on the line. I had enough responsibility as an L.P.N., why would I want to become a R.N.?

My neice is now in nursing school. I try to be supportive, but I did try to discourage her from going into healthcare.

I miss taking care of patient's very much, but I will never miss all of the stress of trying to care for too many patients. I will never go back.[list:bc8593e9cd][/list:u:bc8593e9cd]

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I can honestly say that I'm glad to have stumbled upon this site. I have recently come to grips with the fact that after little over a year of being out of my BSN program, I too have become another nursing statistic. I hate the fact that I have only been a critical care nurse for a year and already questioning my career. I worked in a hospital for four years, throughout college and I loved being a PCA. Ofcourse there were nights that I thought about quitting, but right now I'm looking for reasons to not go to work and frankly I would like to change jobs but I'm scared that in a year I'll become apathetic to that job like I am now. I love the aspect of nursing, but I'm not sure I love nursing anymore. What a shame to spend all that time just to realize that it was all in vain.

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I agree!

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I agree!

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Nursing sucks!!!

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I have wasted 14 years of my life as a nurse.
In the beginning I really enjoyed what I was doing and felt that if I could bring some measure of comfort to a frightened,ill patient that it was all worthwhile. I won't bore you with all the crap I've put up with over the years. If you're a nurse and you are reading this, then you already know. Now I am the one who feels frightened and ill-I can NEVER work in this profession again. I am not trained for anything else and frankly am so depressed I don't know when or if I'll ever work again. I wish that I had studied to become anything but a nurse.

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I've only been a rn for 6 months and already sick of it. I work nights so even on my days off I sleep allllllll day! ever since I was in high school I wanted to be a nurse. I even worked at a hospital all through college. now I dread going into work every night wondering if I'm walking into a death trap. I love helping people and the only thing that keeps me in nursing is the very rare event that a family member or patient thanks me. that and the 25,000 dollars I've spent to get my stupid BSN which you don't even get paid anymore than an ADN. my hospital won't even let you put BSN on your badge, they say they are trying to "unify" the nursing staff. yeah right. I thought as a nurse I could make a difference. Instead I feel like a servant to patients, families, physicians, and the administration. I feel like I am putting my license on the line everytime I punch in with short staffing issues. I feel like a failure. I wish someone had told me this was "real world nursing". And the worst part is I feel trapped and guilty for even feeling this way.

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I am a male nurse who found a way to to leave the profession for awhile. If anyone is interested in doing that, you might want to consider starting your own business. My wife and I decided to give it a try. She left a stressful business career for this also. We started a women's fitness and weight loss center. We are a franchise, so it took us quite a bit of financial stretching with loans, but we were able to get the business off the ground and have been open about 8 months as of this date. We are finally starting to make some profit, which is not bad for a new business. It was very hard at first, and we thought we were not going to to make it for a couple months, but things are finally happening. I had to go back to work full-time in nursing for awhile, then down to part-time, then PRN, and now I am full-time at my business. We had to go through franchise training at our corporate offices and found there were a large number of nurses and teachers that had purchased franchises. The unique backgrounds we possess seem to help us fit well. We also do nutritional teaching, airbrush tanning, and body wraps in our business. As a male I keep a fairly low profile and mostly do marketing, business paperwork, and some nutritional instruction. My wife and another lady work in the fitness, body wrap and tanning areas. The ladies all know I'm a nurse and really like having me around, even though I'm a guy running a women only facility. Some of our clients are even nurses too. Keep in mind this is not something that everyone will be able to do. You will need the ability to raise enought capital in the form of liquid assets (money) to start the business and survive for up to a year before you start making a profit. Hint: I'm not a "Curves" owner, but I do compete with them, and very well at that. We are better IMHO. I am not selling anything here. I just see a lot of frustrated nurses who could be very happy in their own businesses, and also use their nurturing backround to help women feel good and be healthy. It's very rewarding. We even have husbands come in and thank us for helping their wives look and feel better. If you are interested, email me at nurz7896@yahoo.com I will be glad to point you in the direction of someone who can help you get started, or will discuss if you can qualify.
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God help me... I am in the same place as all of you. I have been feeling so isolated and depressed because everyone I try to talk to can't understand why or how I could possibly hate such a "calling". I have wondered if pursuing a masters degree as a nurse practitioner would change things...I have my doubts! I feel completely trapped after nearly 20 years of nursing (I am 41). I have tried many areas of nursing ER, ICU, OR, even Occ. Health
only to find the same sh--. I too have wished to be struck by another vehicle to get out of showing up for my shift. Some nurses acknowledge my feelings but state that it is too late for them so they have resigned themselves to it or they quit when their husbands retire. Nursing has been the biggest mistake of my life....and I don't know what to do or how to get out. The final straw was talking to a doctor friend who told me, "The fact is that as a nurse you lack the credentials for anyone in authority to care what you think about anything. We listen to nurses in these meetings to be polite and to allow you to feel as if your input matters...the truth is it doesn't. The decisions will be made by physicians and administrators and we hope to lead you to our way of thinking. If not...well... it won't matter much." I asked him to be honest and he confirmed what I already knew to be true. Nurses are the workhorses and the whipping boys/girls of healthcare. I hate it and I can't tolerate the thought of wasting any more of what's left of my life in it.







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My job is as r.n.assigned to aresidental treatment unit and csu in a state prison. There is never adequate staffing with one nurse required to pass medication for on the average of 75inmates,and to provide crisis coverage forthe crisis stabilization and allthe charting,orders and coverage for the cell blocks and compound. 2 of my 5 shifts there is just memyself and i. I have gone to administration numerous times to express how unsafe i feel the staffing is but all i ever get is we are trying,this statement made when there are 4 nurses sometimes 5workingdayshift which i relieve. Add to this the stress of the security staff resenting oursalaryand attempting nursing decisions. I have worked in this job for a total of almost 7 years and if it were notfor $30 hour i would be gonebut i fear if i stay my r.n.isin danger. I am angryand burnout and i do notsee it getting any better. I am sittinghere today debating weather i should go in this afternoon or call in sick because i am truly sickand tired of itall most of all administrators thatoversee me but do not even understandwhatmyjobis about

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I've only been a rn for 6 months and already sick of it. I work nights so even on my days off I sleep allllllll day! ever since I was in high school I wanted to be a nurse. I even worked at a hospital all through college. now I dread going into work every night wondering if I'm walking into a death trap. I love helping people and the only thing that keeps me in nursing is the very rare event that a family member or patient thanks me. that and the 25,000 dollars I've spent to get my stupid BSN which you don't even get paid anymore than an ADN. my hospital won't even let you put BSN on your badge, they say they are trying to "unify" the nursing staff. yeah right. I thought as a nurse I could make a difference. Instead I feel like a servant to patients, families, physicians, and the administration. I feel like I am putting my license on the line everytime I punch in with short staffing issues. I feel like a failure. I wish someone had told me this was "real world nursing". And the worst part is I feel trapped and guilty for even feeling this way.

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Originally posted by Shelly RN
I can honestly say that I'm glad to have stumbled upon this site. I have recently come to grips with the fact that after little over a year of being out of my BSN program, I too have become another nursing statistic. I hate the fact that I have only been a critical care nurse for a year and already questioning my career. I worked in a hospital for four years, throughout college and I loved being a PCA. Ofcourse there were nights that I thought about quitting, but right now I'm looking for reasons to not go to work and frankly I would like to change jobs but I'm scared that in a year I'll become apathetic to that job like I am now. I love the aspect of nursing, but I'm not sure I love nursing anymore. What a shame to spend all that time just to realize that it was all in vain.

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