You are spot on and you're the future.  I am not in the medical field although my dad was a doctor and we grew up knowing that most things go away on their own.Yes if you had a broken arm you need to go to the doctor.

I went plant-based 12 years ago after watching forks over knives cause I had a health scare.  You don't have to be a rocket surgeon.One of the symptoms of heart issues is something doesn't feel right.  I don't care about dying but I want it to be quick not drawn out.  After going plant-based within 3 days, I realized how simple the solution was and it wasn't only the heart issue.But every issue including dandruff went away.  I i'm not one hundred percent plant based now because because my body can absorb it better and I am no longer scared straight, but my menu is about 85% plant-based and if I have to work I go rigid plant based 3 days beforehand.  Best wishes to you, You're teaching true healing.

Retired RN. The worst abuse came from other nurses. Indeed.

Old RN here. I always laugh at anybody that thinks nursing is glamorous in any way, shape or form. A Starbucks drink and posing in scrubs does not equal glamour.

Yes, 21 years as an  RN here. I just opened my eyes like 3 years ago to prevention,food as medicine, fasting, and then eating REAL nutrient dense food  that would help most patients improve their health. Our current system just pushes pills 💊 not cure or healing
I'm glad you realized this so soon in your career. 🎉

Nursing will suck your beauty & youth….RUN!!

Everything you said, it’s pure truth, I quit my job as a nursing assistant, 🙅🏾‍♂️it’s hardcore slavery, the patient’s verbally, abusive physically, and the pay sucks, never again, it’s mentally exhausting.

I never tolerate inappropriate behavior. I pressed charges against multiple patients that did something in their right mind. If you are aggressive toward me, you going to be restrained. That doesn’t even stress me out anymore. Sometimes you gotta jump several hospitals before you find the one for you. I work bedside and I never have anxiety over it, it never bothers me that I have to go to work the next day. We need to stand up to hospital management and create a safer environment for patients as well as nurses.

I’m an RN of 28 years, and I absolutely refuse to do facility nursing ever again. I became an RN Case Manager for hospice and am much happier!!!

I am a registered nurse, no longer practicing. I agree it can abusive. Will never return. I’m still healing from the hostile environment. I’m glad you are shedding a light on this problem.

THANK YOU!!!  I have been saying for 17 years that there is NO shortage of nurses, just a shortage of nurses who want to be worked to death, gaslit and abused by administration, and paid a lousy rate. Oh yay, you work 3 days and get 4 days off.  2 of those days off are LITERALLY spent in bed because of exhaustion.   (MORE BELOW)

One time in the hospital a bunch of us were in the med room getting drugs for our patients and I said how I was in the weeds.  ("In the weeds" is a phrase waiters use when they are soooooo busy and can't catch up).  That led to a conversation and all 5 or so of us women had been waitresses before nursing.  One nurse grabbed her tray full of pills and said that the only difference now is that we pass drugs instead of food of drinks.  

Fast forward to now when everything is computer charting and it is ten times worse!  You can't find anything when you want to look up something in a patient's chart.  You have to document the SAME EXACT information in 12 different places (no nurses came up with the computer program for charting - someone who has NO IDEA about nursing created the program).  I solved and prevented many issues by just reading through a patients entire paper chart.  IMPOSSIBLE to do today.  They make you check at least one box in every section even if none of those boxes apply because the screen will not let you continue if there is no checked box.  Then you have to open a new section and type a written note that what you checked is not true, it is really XYZ but you had to check something in order to continue.  Computer charting ONLY benefits the administration and billing.

I predict that new nurses will last 5 years AT MOST in a hospital before burn out drives them into a different field in nursing or
a different career altogether.  It's the most abusive career in which I have EVER worked!!!  (And I began working in a restaurant when I was 13 when boys and men were much less restrained than they are today!).  The only nurses who last are the ones who do not care at all and so they do very little for their patients and then lie in their documentation that did everything.  If you are caught up on all your documentation at 10am (having worked 3 hours into your 12 hour shift) then I know EXACTLY what kind of lying, lazy, sociopathic nurse you are.


After working 60 hours a week in home health hospice but only getting paid for 40  (because I chose to actually care for my patients and do the ridiculous amounts of redundant charting at home), I quit and decided that I will NEVER do computer charting again.  Computer charting is INSANE.

I started nursing school with the goal of making a difference, FULLY aware that it wasn't a glamorous profession. However, midway through my studies, I realized that the reality of life as a nurse wasn't for me, so I decided to leave the program. I have NO regrets about my decision ✌🏽

I’m an LPN. I have a bachelors in another (non-nursing) area so thought I would happily bridge into a BSN program. Nope. After 6 months at the bedside on a med-surg-tele unit I knew nursing was a racket. Overworked, underpaid, stressed out, used and abused. I work in health information now, and it’s better stress-wise….but make no mistake, every healthcare organization out there is going to work you to the bone while paying you as little as they can get away with. Honestly, if I could go back in time I would tell my younger self to avoid healthcare. The industry does attract a lot of caring, compassionate people who want to make the world a better place…and healthcare organizations are all too happy to exploit that altruistic drive to benefit their bottom line.

I've wanted to be a nurse since I was 9, but unfortunately I chose to walk away from the profession when it became apparent that being a nurse meant selling your mind, body and soul to corporations who do not care if you die from exhaustion.

I am now going into law, and much, much happier.

Registered nurse here.  I did the circuit - ER, different ICUs, oncology,, neurology, float, etc, and I transitioned out of having it be my primary source of income, souring on health care in general. Make nursing your side hustle!  Too much of my nursing career was in an endless quest of a position that felt both satisfying and adult. This included grad school, where they cranked out NPs and flooded the market.  Most of the nurses in the ER were either in grad school or already graduated and could not find jobs. . Nursing is a high-paid blue collar job that will eventually break you of mind, body, and spirit. I tired of the unsociable hours, the abuse (a large portion of it from other nurses) the unending and ridiculous charting, the ever-changing rules for no reason, the costant threat of write-ups or losing one's license from managers in the daily "motivational" huddles.  The job.is both utterly intense and infantilizing.   I am now a librarian, which required another grad degree. I make less money,, but so enjoy my working life and I feel like a completely different person.  .My advise is instead of spinning your wheels for years  in a dysfunctional career dynamic, take a step back and cultivate another career path.

I’ve tried working at “great” hospitals like Mayo, I’ve tried different specialities, I’ve tried outpatient nursing, I’ve tried school nursing, and now I’m in case management. EVERY NURSING JOB I’VE HAD HAS BEEN UNDERSTAFFED! No one cares at all. I’m glad to be in CM now, it’s the least stressful because I’m not going to kill anyone from being understaffed.

It takes a special person to be a nurse.

I have a brother that is an alcoholic, and he treats people like garbage. He is in a nursing home, and I feel so sorry for the nurses that care for him. I gave up on him 10 years ago. He is a terrible human being with zero gratitude. He probably is a true narcissist by definition. I don't think people understand how truly vile someone can be towards staff; I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't related to someone like my brother.

I have a lot of respect for nurses.  Ive been treated like total crap in the ER, (sent away in psychosis three times),  and the nurses are the first ones to slip the number to report the doctor.

I’ve been a RN for 39 yrs,  graduated in 1985,  most of the dissatisfaction is hospital bedside nursing, thankfully nurses have options!!  I LOVE my career- use your education think outside the hospital

You’re absolutely right. However, you overlooked one important factor: working with toxic colleagues, which is a significant contributor to nurses' burnout.