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Originally Posted by cindy0721  thanks! i worried sometimes that I might be making a big mistake... I didnt grow up thinking I want to be a nurse, but as I aged ... I learned to appreciate it more and knowing that the little bit that I do help actually makes someone feel better or helps them.. means the world.. its a great sense of accomplishment to me... |
i hope you still feel that way when you actually start doing bedside nursing and go to work and end up carrying a patient load of eight-ten critically ill patients needing pain meds and some jerk that dioesn't even seem sick getting mad because you don't bring his coffee on time. Nursing is a job, you have to watch your mouth in. it doesn't matter if you are giving morphine to a dying patient, you better also find time to get the coffeee and do two or three admissions at the same time. my sense of accomplishment and making people feel better only lasted a few years. then it was just every once in awhile I had those feelings. Most of the time you are so rushed that you hardly have any time at all to spend with your patients other than just what you have to do. But, then there is that time, you will be at the mall or somewhere and someone will come right up to you and tell you how much they appreciate what you did for them or their family. The only good news in nursing today is that the field is wide open for young nurses. You do not have to do bedside nursing. if I were young and just starting, I would go into the legal field. there is a great need for nurses to research medical cases and present "expert' testimony in court cases.