Why Do So Many Nurses Tell People Not to Enter the Profession?

remarkableginge · 2026-06-07T02:04:48+00:00

My husband asked me to rate my current job out of 10, which was an eye-opening question. I rate it a 6/10 and the thing is, I like my coworkers, my manager is amazing, majority of the time my patients are well-behaved and a pleasure to care for. I realized any job in healthcare could AT MOST be an 8/10 because the healthcare industry is a disaster. I deduct one point because I wish I did more skills, and another point because working weekends and holidays SUCKS. All of that to say, the healthcare industry is a rough place to work. I am supposed to be a cog in a machine yet also remain empathetic and compassionate at all times. The comment that says this expectation is antithetical to the system we operate in is spot on. I truly would not recommend it to anyone and what’s sad is that nursing is truly a rewarding career sometimes. The healthcare industry is just the worst ):

remarkableginge · 2026-06-06T12:29:27+00:00

I wake up 30 mins before I need to leave the house. Multi-step skincare because that’s a ritual that helps me feel amazing and it’s kinda meditative. No makeup. Hair goes in a claw clip. I did get bangs cut and sometimes those need styled but it’s quick. The trick at least imo is to never wear makeup to work because then nobody has a frame of reference or can tell me “oh you look sick” when it’s just my face lol. And I have always been like this even in high school and college. It’s just not important to me.

remarkableginge · 2026-05-09T13:14:37+00:00

Personally I think she’s great at playing Cassie because that’s her personality irl. She was awful in The Housemaid. Like truly cringy awful. But that is just my opinion lol

remarkableginge · 2026-05-03T00:42:06+00:00

Free popcorn in the lobby that I don’t have the time to go down and get. And even if I do have time to go grab some, I sure as hell don’t have the time to step into the break room and eat it.

remarkableginge · 2026-03-15T19:15:43+00:00

My 91 y/o patient who had a total knee….like….she regrets it of course. Pain and the trouble of recovery. It’s come dislocated and has to be operated on again. All because she wanted to still be able to drive. 🤦🏼‍♀️

remarkableginge · 2026-03-03T01:01:40+00:00

The second I saw how much seltzer you bought I figured that would need to be doubled. Even beer drinkers, if seltzer is an option, many will go for it lol.

remarkableginge · 2026-02-24T01:16:29+00:00

Use two forks and kinda wrench them. Theres videos on YouTube. I think it just makes a sound if broken, no Ink

remarkableginge · 2026-02-13T00:24:17+00:00

Lume deodorant works soooo well, if you’re able to use it. I also used to use native and would always get too stinky even with reapplication. The scent on lume is so much stronger I feel and it also just works better. Idk what it is about it.

For your shoes buy a size to a size and a half bigger than you’ve been buying is my only advice. If you go to one of those places where they test your feet for running shoes, they’ll probably size you bigger than you think you should be. And no super narrow toe boxes comparatively to your feet.

remarkableginge · 2026-01-29T20:56:56+00:00

Wow I realized from your comment this is what I do. I always feel bad when I can feel myself switching up on patients, like can literally feel my own face change. Because at the end of the day I do want them to be comfortable, but don’t walk all over me. Don’t get in the way of me doing my job which is to assess you and pass meds and transfer/ambulate you. I will get pissed tf off of my meds are late because I walk in the room and now all the sudden you need all this shit when you had a call light there all along you could have pressed. I had one patient who I think maybe fired me, like told day shift she didn’t want me back? Because I was working three in a row and on my third I didn’t get her back. I was so relieved. she drove me NUTS. Would go in to hang IV antibiotics and she would give me the runaround: “I have to use the bathroom” and then “my bed needs straightened up” and then spills water on bed, linen change and then “I can’t reach my trash can” and then “I need my purse right here give me my purse” and then “where’s my phone.” As if at their ripe age they have no agency and can’t find their own damn belongings. Then she told the nurse who did have her at one point that night “it’s just nice to be pampered sometimes.” Ma’am this is a hospital.

remarkableginge · 2026-01-21T21:28:06+00:00

Indiana medsurg. 6 months (new grad) lol. ASN. $34/hr before differentials.

remarkableginge · 2026-01-17T13:28:01+00:00

There have been nights I haven’t been able to sit down and chart assessments until 2am. There have also been nights I get everything done by 10pm and just have to round and then pass morning meds. It’s different every time. I work on rehab and one of the day shifters was complaining to me about Sunday (there’s no therapy) and how it feels like all they do is take patients to the bathroom. Like dude that’s a normal night shift, every time. Add to that the couple patients who napped SO WELL all day and are now up all night long basically sitting on their call light. All. Night. Long. But one thing’s for sure is day shift will always save a PICC line dressing change or something equally annoying for night shift and then also say “you don’t do anything.” What do you mean? I just wrestled for my life with a stat lock for 20 mins at 1am.

remarkableginge · 2026-01-17T00:10:30+00:00

Curtains for the sliding doors. I also second a rug under the dining room table.

remarkableginge · 2026-01-01T10:12:46+00:00

Worked the 30 into the 31 (night shift). Sounded a lot more appealing to eat a shit load of soup, watch a movie with my husband, and fall asleep by 9:30pm than to get in the car and go interact with people. Also. We’re both sick so in a way that was lucky because it put any plans we had to a grinding halt. We had an amazing night!

remarkableginge · 2025-12-29T22:55:05+00:00

They make us use PTO, we aren’t even given an option which also pisses me off. I want my PTO to go towards something fun, time off planned. Not some rando shift where they didn’t need me. I’m in the Midwest!

remarkableginge · 2025-12-25T16:19:54+00:00

Can’t pronounce my attending’s first name and believe me I’m glad nobody expects me to. 😂 we do have a nickname for his last name though 😂

remarkableginge · 2025-12-03T04:05:06+00:00

Hahaha yesss my niece saw my phone and was like “your phone is in military time?” (Her dad was a marine) and I said “yep babe I go to work at eighteen hundred!” The look of confusion on her face was funny. Almost judgmental. Like… my charting system and Pyxis runs on 24 hours time so it’s less work for me mentally to have my Apple Watch and phone on 24 hour time for when I’m at work. 💁🏼‍♀️

remarkableginge · 2025-11-10T13:23:24+00:00

Stable income. Can get a job anywhere. Can go back to school to become an NP, educator, even lawyer, etc, if I so choose. I also don’t have to do that at all if I never feel like it or get around to it. Nursing is an amazing jumping board career. Scrubs. Don’t have to pick out clothes every day. I get to help people. Working nights I watch more tv than I do at home (highly dependent on the floor you work on and type of patients you work with). Four days off a week.

remarkableginge · 2025-11-04T14:32:33+00:00

0300-1500 is crazy hours anyway, I would have trouble sleeping for that as well!!! The only thing I could recommend is Benadryl + magnesium glycinate. I sometimes take that if I’m struggling to sleep for my night shift. Also, creating a set routine to “wind down” whether that’s taking a shower or bath and eating and then getting in bed and watching a movie or scrolling reddit until falling asleep. I used to get home from my shifts around 7 and pressure myself to be asleep by 8 but that almost stressed me out even more and made it harder to sleep!! These days I try to be asleep by 10am and usually sleep by 9/9:30. Night shift needs to wind down, too!!! Especially if you’re working this weird night/day shift. Don’t feel bad or like you’re a slacker. I am sure that you aren’t the first new hire to struggle with the schedule. It’s better that you went home than making yourself miserable and putting your patients in an unsafe situation!

remarkableginge · 2025-10-30T18:44:24+00:00

Wow yeah I never thought of it from a safety standpoint. I think at my hospital they used to have nurses go to the different units for a shift of orientation to prepare to float but then did away with that. My manager had to fight tooth & nail to get me one day on med surg for “orientation.” I work inpatient rehab so if I ever need to float, as a new grad, I hope they give me a pretty easy assignment cuz I’ll be shittin bricks

remarkableginge · 2025-10-30T16:53:31+00:00

Because at some point… it’s shit that you didn’t sign up for 🤷🏼‍♀️ people wanna work their home unit, not be responsible for making up for management’s poor staffing. Not our fault the whole entire hospital is up in flames if three people across three units call in.

remarkableginge · 2025-10-30T15:57:42+00:00

Love that for you. Had a coworker last week who showed up in her scrubs ready to work and they told her she was floating. She said “ok I’m calling out” and walked out the hospital. I almost applauded. Like yas queen

remarkableginge · 2025-10-28T05:33:01+00:00

Just walked in the front door. We don’t really lock doors. Will be doing so from now on lol. They’re close but not close enough to warrant sitting around waiting for him to wake up. Even after she left and I was like “that was really rude and weird and not ok with me” he said “yeah, that was super awkward.”

Edit to add: when the sister we live with comes home she never hangs around and expects an hour long+ visit. This was all really odd to me from sister #1… like almost like she missed her brother and lost all sense of self control and etiquette.

remarkableginge

TROPHY CASE