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As a Registered Nurse or Nurse, do you enjoy doing your job? why or why not? |
As a Registered Nurse or Nurse, do you enjoy doing your job? why or why not? I love my job (for now). I work in a great facility that really works hard to retain their employees. My labor & delivery unit is a very cohesive group without a lot of the typical cliquey-ness you find in so many places. What I love most are the patients. I love working with pregnant women, getting to know them and their families during this most sensitive and stressful - but mostly joyous of times in their lives. Even in the tragic cases, there is a certain beauty that can be found when things are handled correctly by the staff. I connect with the occupation of nursing on a very emotional and spiritual level. I try not to get caught up in the politics of health care and await opportunities for ideas to come on how to change certain things to improve patient care, then press for policy change if there is a need, but that's about it. I know bedside nursing will not be for me forever, that I will burn out as so many people do, and so I will recognize early on the signs and get out before I get too miserable, and then I would love to teach nursing. Previously I had considered getting my NNP, but now I am leaning towards getting my master's in education. I do enjoy my job, most days. After 10 years as an RN, I am feeling the effects of being abused by doctors, other nurses and even patients. Our health care system is rapidly going down the tubes with greedy insurance companies, CEO's who earn 1-5 million dollars or more in bonus each year while staff cuts occur, inferior supplies are imported from China and more. Despite these conditions, I still enjoy what I do. When I am no longer able to tolerate the injustices of our system, I'll get out rather than take my frustrations out on the patient or my colleagues. Personal experience I enjoy my job. I don't take crap from doctors, so I don't have the problems the other person talks about. I'm male so I have a different perspective on that subject. There are SO many options one can choose in the nursing field. Think of any company no matter what they do, and they probably have nurse on staff. I like flying so I've done flight nursing. I worked on offshore drilling rigs, so I could become a Safety officer/medic. Currently I work for a large company here in the Southwest that owns several hospitals. They are building us a brand new facility with new equipment. The pay is better than anything I could make in the mid-west, so consider location as part of your decision. Nurses in the mid-west make 30-50% less than they do here in Arizona or California. People talk about the cost of living, but gas prices, food costs are pretty much the same everywhere. Housing is different, but you only buy a house once. I initially hated nursing, because of nursing school. I was a male in a female world and they let you know it. My nursing instructors were either divorced or going through marital problems, so us men got dumped on a lot. It doesn't change in that regard, when you get a job either. Some women are real bytches to work with, and as a man you have NO infrastructure set up for you to complain. It's all tilted toward women complaining about you. The HR films about harassment, always have the perp as a male, the scenarios about racism, always have the perp as a white male, so that's their mindset. If you get a job, and someone makes a false claim about you, you'll end up like the Duke LaCrosse players..guilty until proven innocent, and then they won't apologize afterward. Get use to it. If you can get through unscathed on a daily basis from the politically correct crap as I've described, you'll do fine. I finally found my place in nursing..or should I say it found me. That was half my battle. I thought I wanted a certain career, but it wasn't working out, and then what I do now fell in my lap by accident, and I'm pretty happy with my current situation. Good luck and I'd recommend you to get into nursing, 5 years ago I would not have. I've been a nurse now for 12 years. float P.S I don't care what a CEO makes, so I don' t have that burden. Hell some people (CNA's) are jealous of what I make. As long as I get paid and they don't demand blood I'm cool with people making what they can. I'm a capitalist. |
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