How many of you hate your job?

To all who have their BSN - do you hate or love your job as a nurse? I keep hearing from people on this site that they hate their job and wish they would have done something else with their life. Is nursing really this terrible? It seems to me nursing is a GREAT profession to get into. You basically get around 50k a year to help care for people. Call me crazy, but I don't think the job is really that HARD if you just have the right mind set. I would much rather be cleaning up people's **** (code brown) than sitting on my *** all day staring at a computer screen or doing marketing meetings. The other complaint I also keep hearing from people in nursing is that they hate their job because people gossip about them too much... haha- get over yourself. Who cares what others are saying about you, just do your job and don't let it get to ya. Let me know what you guys think! Last edit by HM2VikingRN on Aug 6, '10 : Reason: merged threads for continuity
Are you always negative?

ok.. im a new nurse.. and i have seen experienced nurses do lots and lots and lots of work. It is not an easy job... you have so much to deal with at once. the nurses i have come across work their asses off (excuse my language) everyday...not counting those lazy nurses (trust me i have noticed those too). i don't know if your a nurse or not.. but you shouldn't assume nursing as not being "that HARD" of a job unless you have placed yourself in a Rn's shoes.

Quote from johnny depp23To all who have their BSN - do you hate or love your job as a nurse? I keep hearing from people on this site that they hate their job and wish they would have done something else with their life. Is nursing really this terrible? It seems to me nursing is a GREAT profession to get into. You basically get around 50k a year to help care for people. Call me crazy, but I don't think the job is really that HARD if you just have the right mind set. I would much rather be cleaning up people's **** (code brown) than sitting on my ass all day staring at a computer screen or doing marketing meetings. The other complaint I also keep hearing from people in nursing is that they hate their job because people gossip about them too much... haha- get over yourself. Who cares what other idiots are saying about you, just do your job and don't let it get to ya. Let me know what you guys think!

to the OP: are you actually working as a nurse right now? I love my job when Im getting to help save lives and see an impact in my patient's condition. I dont always love being blamed for everything, having people be out to get you, out of touch managers making your life more difficult, etc. From your post, it sounds like you havent yet been in our shoes so maybe you shouldnt comment.

Not sitting at a desk? lol what kind of nursing do YOU do? I am in paperwork up to my eyeballs and then some. Just because you are a nurse doesnt mean there's no desk involved. I do patient care, but my dellusions of being Florence Nightingale, are long gone.Btw, I dont hate my job. There's a difference between hating your job and being realistic. And I spend all day listening to other people talk about their issues, and feeling sympathy out the wazoo. If I want to act and feel selfishly about my frustrations at the end of the day, thats my perrogative. I'll put my happy cap back on tomorrow~

Nursing is a difficult profession, period. After reading your post, you communicate a blase attitude toward the profession. Your previous posts convey that you are a nursing student; my suggestions to you: 1. Lose the word "idiot;" 2. Adjust your attitude. You have a long way to go.....When you complete your nursing program, and working as a nurse, post how "easy" your job is...

I love my PROFESSION; that doesn't mean I love my job. After 40 years I still prefer pt care. It is all the other BS that comes with it that I tire of.....

Quote from johnny depp23To all who have their BSN - do you hate or love your job as a nurse? I keep hearing from people on this site that they hate their job and wish they would have done something else with their life. Is nursing really this terrible? It seems to me nursing is a GREAT profession to get into. You basically get around 50k a year to help care for people. Call me crazy, but I don't think the job is really that HARD if you just have the right mind set. I would much rather be cleaning up people's **** (code brown) than sitting on my ass all day staring at a computer screen or doing marketing meetings. The other complaint I also keep hearing from people in nursing is that they hate their job because people gossip about them too much... haha- get over yourself. Who cares what other idiots are saying about you, just do your job and don't let it get to ya. Let me know what you guys think!

I will have to say I'm disappointed in what nursing has turend out to be for me, due to basically all of the reasons of the poster above. What has killed it for me has not just been the paperwork, or the rude families -- those things are almost a challenge for me -- the real soul killer is the way nurses are treated by each other and by management. The writing up process has just got to stop ...it's a tool that is used to rough up nurses and mentally torture them, in my opinion. I didn't stay long enough to get written up or to get into any ******* contests,m but I ceretainly witnessed it on my unit through other collegeagues who were treated like DIRT. I just walked ....to a better job in another area and off to get my graduate degree.And i'm not sure I"ll EVER return to bedside hospital nursing. I'm not cut out for it. I can work as down hard and dirty with the rest of them -- but I'll be damned if my efforts are going to be trodden upon by some nasty nurse manager or vindictive co-worker/monster who must obviously have the most horrible life or they just wouldn't find it in their heart to treat their co-workers the way they do.Something needs to change in nursing -- but I've lost hope and heart that it ever will. So I'm out and away from bedside. You can have it. I cant' say I "hated" nursing ...I was just shocked by it.

Op, I think that the problem you are missing is that, there are many in nursing who have, let's say "issues". These "issues" really might be of the kind that demand some sort of treatment, IMHO. When companies allow such people to remain employed -- and just so you know, it's very hard to fire someone for having "issues" -- these people make it their life's work to destroy all around them. Us regular folks and people with "issues" do not mix well. You will key into who these people are soon enough. And, when management is included in the "issues" group you are gonna have problems that will confound you. You will be stunned at how deeply ingrained the problems can be, and how powerless you will be in correcting things (really) because you might think that these people just need some meds and some group therapy. Simple, right? Ahhh, but even though those meds might be right around the corner waiting for you in the floor pyxis, you cannot medicate your co-workers!!! That my friend is what powerless is!!!And no, it's not like this in every other job out there. What we do is very dangerous. Adding people with "issues" to the mix makes it hell.And, to be sure, I say these things only partly in jest

Quote from JustinTRNI've gotten to where I hate to work with certain nurses and you have to continuously watch your back because nurses could change your IV pumps trying to get your into trouble or anything.

I have been a nurse for over 25 years, and have had good days and bad. Overall, the good has far outweighed the bad. I can't think of any other profession with as many options as nurses have. Most people only see nurses as doing only bedside care. That is only a small part of what nurses can do.Anyone want to list the many jobs nurses are hired into? I'll start off with the easiest (quickly coming to mind), and others can add in the more unusual jobs. Home health, hospice, school nursing, camp nursing, legal expert (med-mal). Okay, that took 5 seconds. What else do nurses do?