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Pediatric Nurses, do you enjoy your job?

Nurses..do you really ENJOY your job?

  • I've been thinking about nursing for a while..and I like the thought of helping others.. Alot of nurses say that they really love their job, and do not regret it.. and others ...show more

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    If you really want to hear the truth I can tell you my daughter's experience. She was very excited about a career as an RN-BSN and got a job offer before she even took her exam. Once she got the results of the exam she began working at her dream job in the ER. It was stressful, but she blamed it on her inexperience and the nature of the job. After a year she moved into ICU, where the pace was slower, but she realized that wasn't the real problem. The fact that there is such a shortage of nurses, and it will only get worse with the baby boomers getting older, is the problem. She was scheduled to work 12 hours, but when another nurse would fail to come into work due to a sick child, a dead battery, or any other reason that meant whoever was on the present shift had to stay. There were many days she didn't get a lunch break, had to work 16 hours straight - and when you have to be alert because someones life hangs on your ability to care for them it becomes very stressful. She had to deal with concerned parents who wanted instant results, nervous patients, and overworked, impatient doctors. After much soul searching she quit patient care and went to work for an insurance company as a case manager. She talks to the doctors, and sees the patient records, but she misses the actual patient contact. However, this is much less stressful. She works 8 hours a day, no holidays or weekends or nights and she makes more money. But this isn't why she became a nurse. This is something a lot of nurses are faced with.

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It IS stressful and you do have to deal with difficult patients and family members. But is also rewarding and you get to make a difference in someone's life every day. It can be really wonderful seeing a patient get better and go home. It can be a privilege to care for someone in their final weeks and days. I always wanted to be a nurse and I didn't reach that goal until I was almost 40 years old. I can't imagine being anything else.

Lori

I am a school nurse now. It can be stressful at times, but the job is actually easy. I don't mean there is nothing to do all day long--it's much easier to work with healthy population (college students) who (most of the time) listen to what they are told. We have had real emergencies and those were dealt with like any nurse / doctors would have done so. This year has been a bit busier because they enrolled many new students but from time to time, I do have "down time" and as long as everything is pretty much done, I am at liberty to do what I want (i.e. internet / watching movie / read a book and mostly eat). I know I am quite lucky. The link below (by another answerer) shows a young man who got his license two years ago and I deduced that it was his first job that he was laid off. This can't be easy for him, but in LA (in the valley) where he lives, if he really looks, he should be able to get a situation at a, say, nursing home, or possibly at a clinic who is willing to train him.

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