A Little Perspective Goes A long Way

Nice to hear that there are nurses out there that feel as you do. The best years I spent in nursing, I spent teaching clinical nursing. I would charge all our nurse educator to remember what it is like, and teach your students just how important nursing is. Don't beat them down or belittle them, and always remember "someday, you may be their patient"!

So true.

Nursing is a rewarding field. Looks like you have found a setting that is right for you. The thing you talked about at your first exist everywhere. It is up to people to stop and listen to what they are complaining about and work together and make things bett. I have since learned that the saying that there is always someone worst off than me. So I learn to see the good in everything. Does not mean everything is good but it can be made very simple. No the sun does shine all the time but it does rain all the time either. So God Bless You. And enjoy your career. Mine is 25 years and growing

I am a month and a half from being at my first job as an RN for the required year before I am free to transfer. I have this mantra I repeat to myself when things are especially rough on my unit: I will NEVER be like them! The few times I have had a student follow me, I tried to be everything my supposed mentors were not. Patient. Calm. Willing to explain. Then explain again. I fully get how it can be frustrating to do this when we are busy or having " a day" but I also remember how I looked up to the nurses I followed and how hurt I was when they treated me like a moron because of something I didn't know.