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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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Wouldn't suggest computer science

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.

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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.

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i hate computer science

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 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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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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To all the nurses who are unhappy

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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