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Re: thank you (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
Hang in there. Get through this trial y fire, and it may actually get better, if you have the stamina for it. It is a tough job, and only your will can make you show up for more punishment. There are rewards as well, if you actually help someone. You have my earnest prayers for your success. Jude
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Nov 14 '02
11:21 am PST
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Re: thank you (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
Sorry I was not notified of your comment or I would have responded more quickly.
My advice is to call the work place, and ask to be put out to the floor you will be working on, and speak to a nurse that is working there. You can get the HYPE from potential employer, but if you connect with someone who actually works in that environment, you are much more likely to get the truth.
And it has been my experience that "part timers" often get roped into working extra, although no one can make you do it. Hope that helps. Jude
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Nov 14 '02
11:19 am PST
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Re: Wow! Straight, honest, REAL hype on nursing profession! (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
I just discovered this comment, and my deepest apologies for not responding to it sooner.
And thanks for the parallel workplace description, because that works for me in the rest of my life! Jude
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Nov 14 '02
11:15 am PST
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thank you (Reply to this comment)
by imani3700
I enjoyed reading your essay. I just started my first nursing job and I am wondering what I got myself into. The 12 hour shifts are hard physically and there is so much to learn. School does not prepare you for the reality of nursing. I don't care how much time you spend in clinicals, nothing is the same as working on a floor. But after reading your essay, I see that I am not crazy it is a difficult job but it can be done. I just want to make it through my first year and then I will probably leave the hospital nursing setting.
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Nov 13 '02
3:46 pm PST
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good stuff! (Reply to this comment)
by aintfromhere
hey ms. jude, i'm very interested in tapping into your nursing knowledge. your writing is incredibly helpful and interesting! i'm a male in colorado and i have started filling out applications for nursing schools in greeley and denver. in exchange for tuition support i will probably work for two years at the hospital in fort collins. jobs there supposedly include 64 or 80 hours per pay period. that's attractive but i'd like to hear what you have to say about the likelihood of mandatory overtime. should i just expect to get screwed into working more than i expected? or is the hospital's job description reasonably accurate?
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Oct 17 '02
10:11 am PDT
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Wow! Straight, honest, REAL hype on nursing profession! (Reply to this comment)
by frwhiskey
Jude, that's some article you wrote on nursing. I read it with great interest since I put in a year at USF School of Nursing in the late 70's, then quit. I could barely pass the basics like Microbiology and Anatomy. These days, I go to visit people in hospitals, and get the creeps bigtime to think I could have become a nurse by simply falling into it. Top girl students were still encouraged to go for teaching/nursing/corporate secretarial stuff, as you may well remember.
LUckily, I'm now a tourguide, which is like teaching and nursing together but no typing!
I love your patient (yes!) explanation, step by step, of how to deal with a new workplace, get used to colleaugues so that they won't "Eat you", and make friends somehow. LYing about marriage, bringing cookies: I've done all these things often enough in other work environments, with great success. Women have it very tough psychologically on the job, and are often not trusted by each other - whether colleagues, bosses, customers or patients. The older I get, the more I dread any new place with new faces to adjust to. When I was younger, I always hoped it would get easier, that experience would help. It's made me more afraid of conflicts, alas.
I write about my local job as a tourguide, should you wish to read about our silly trials and tribulations in San Francisco:
http://frwhiskey.diaryland.com
YOu are one heckovan epinionator!!!
Mary
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Mar 29 '02
8:28 pm PST
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Re: Very well written! (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
Thank you very much for the lovely complement. I wish I had done as much planning as I should have, but as it is it's a one shot deal. I probably have a couple more to publish on Nursing now, since I started working in a completely different environment. ...I am still blushing .
Jude
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Mar 01 '02
4:04 am PST
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Re: Excellent Read (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
actually pretty sexist here also, but I don't know if it is really the profession's fault, or the over all work environment which assumes, through pop psychology that "only men" can understand the technical stuff, and "only women" can do the physical care and comforting. But to be honest, I have to say that it exists from within, to some degree. ...thanks for stopping by. Jude
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Nov 19 '01
7:32 pm PST
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Excellent Read (Reply to this comment)
by cr01
In the UK, some elements are different for nursing, some are the same. I write as my wife is on a night shift at her stroke rehab unit as a nurse.
I was particularly struck by your comments about male nurses. My wifes experience is sadly sexist, male nurses in the UK are expected to become high flyers in a very short time period, and also work in a very technical environment Elderly nursing in the UK does not attract men, money or technology, as being elderly is not "sexy"!
What a world we live in!.
A Most Intereting review.
Chris
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Nov 16 '01
6:26 pm PST
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Great editorial (Reply to this comment)
by SurgRN911
Having been in this profession for 32 years I found your article to be very thorough. You gave some wonderful advice and very accurate. Bottom line you love it or leave it. Low pay, long hours, little appreciation, stress, and some major physical and mental drawbacks, make it like no other job I'd have. Wonderful isn't it? Thanks for a great read.
Di
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Nov 16 '01
2:24 pm PST
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Re: Excellent review (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
So you really read it?! You ought to get a couple of extra cookies for that!
Seriously, thanks for leaving me the comment, and as for Mary, who's real name was "Helen", I could write a book about her alone. She was hoot.
Jude
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Nov 13 '01
7:58 am PST
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Re: Thank you (Reply to this comment)
by artbyjude
I hope I didn't scare you off! If so, I'll delete ! Thanks for reading! Jude
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Nov 13 '01
7:56 am PST
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Excellent review (Reply to this comment)
by Suzer
I thought this might be dry reading, but very entertaining. Oops, there goes Mary. . .
Suzi
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Nov 12 '01
7:27 am PST
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Thank you (Reply to this comment)
by tekki
for the excellant insight. I have decided not
to become a nurse after all, but what you say
holds true for most jobs.
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Nov 12 '01
5:21 am PST
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