Floor Nursing Is Not For Me
I do not know your location but will tell you that floor nursing in some areas can be awful because poor ratios poor management morale and inadequate support for nurses while in other areas it actually will be good.
Floor nursing is not for me. Maybe your health isn t what it used to be. Maybe you ve tried it and it s just not for you. New grads can go into a bedside job and not know exactly what they are in for.
In any case you do have options. What if you don t want to be a floor nurse. I really hope this helps someone as it is helping me just by gettin.
So here is a list of who shouldn t be a nurse become a nurse or even pursue a career in nursing â i call it the â nursing is not for you list. I regret for not exploring other majors and chosen nursing for what it is. Nursing professionals who possess a strong sense of advocacy not only greatly benefit the patient but can also make their own job easier.
In nursing school clinicals usually don t go beyond two to three patients per student so they are not exactly exposed to the real life rigors and stresses that come with the life of a bedside life and cultural shock is a very real phenomenon. Cardoza facebook like box width 292 height 70 psychiatric mental health nursing. If an np is working on a hospital floor especially as a resource for new rns it would behoove her to be comfortable inserting foley catheters.
Nursing affords a wide variety of work settings. But what you describe as basic nursing skills that all nurses in all specialties should have is misleading. Nurses are consistently encountering patients which are considered difficult or unlovable says susan kieffer rn msn ed and a professor with the kaplan university school of nursing.
I am so tired of seeing these bright young people being sold a bill of goods only to fail and be miserable and to quit the profession when they are demoted to the position they should have started out in the first place. Nursing is not an easy profession it requires both physical and mental stamina to make it through those 14 hour shifts if you love the work you are doing and believe in the impact it makes on every patient s life you might find yourself thriving even in a whirlwind of activity. This is the hardest video i have made but i finally found the courage to do it and share.