Nursing- Pros and cons? (1 Viewer)

[John McCain]

I was considering enrolling in Nursing.

It's been noted that, while there are shortages of nurses nationwide, this is not due to a lack of trained people. There is an abundance of trained nurses, the problem is that many of them choose to work in other jobs after a while, because they all hate nursing.

Why is this?

Pros- The pay is acceptable imo.
Conditions e.g. lots of rostered days off
Guaranteed job at end of studies
Can find a job easily, anywhere in the country

Cons- ?

Also, if you're studying nursing, what is the clinical portfolio about? 3/4 of the assessments at UNCLE are on the clinical portfolio alone, what goes into it?

 

[katie tully]

Pros: pay is ok
- can travel around the world and get paid a shit load to do it
- sort of guaranteed job
- plenty of stuff to specialise in
- scope to advance your career beyond basic shift work nursing, i.e. management, clinical specialty, etc
Cons:
- under resourced hospitals
- staffing shortages
- putting up with CUNTS
- putting up with other nurses
- management atm in pretty much most public hospitals is up to shit and most hospitals are run by incompetent fools

 

[yuri_gagarin]

nah there isnt really an abundance of nurses

also the average age is very old so they are all retiring

 

[katie tully]

yeah true point, tbh there isn't a pool of nurses sitting idly by because trained nurses dont want to nurse

there's either
- lack of nurses
- lack of positions for nurses given the great massive black hole nsw health is currently in

once i too thought that health was guaranteed in terms of employment, the last 6 months have lead me to believe otherwise

also tbh the pay isn't that great, shift work you can probably easily earn up to 65k in your first year out of uni, but shift work is gay, most nurses ive met are massive cunts because they're 90 years old and just wont retire and the most clinically useless and incompetent become your boss.

 

[John McCain]

The cons don't seem to be that bad, compared to say, being a plumbers labourer, which I currently am.

Will add as second preference.

 

[katie tully]

It's not bad, you can find yourself a specialty that you enjoy and that doesn't involve working with assholes.

 

[David Spade]

wow that was terrible

 

[monica-t]

As an enrolled nurse and 3rd year nursing student can I say my advice to think really hard about enrolling in nursing. Shift work, being treated like crap by patients, drs and other nurses. The pay definitely doesn't equal how hard the work is. I don't go to Newcastle uni, but from what I've heard the nursing faculty there has a pretty bad name... I'd go with a sydney uni if you really want to do nursing

 

[David Spade]

Go with whichever uni is most convenient because in nursing no one gives a fuck where you got your degree from, all they want is someone to fill the position

 

[ay0_x]

David's right.

And as for working with assholes..

You will be working with assholes. A lot of them. I've seen my mum and other doctors treat nurses like shit just because they can. Nurses do more work than doctors, for less pay. Shift work sucks. Pay isn't too great (union wouldn't be striking so often if it was). There's also a lot of cattiness and drama between nurses (you might not be subjected to that 'cause you're a dude though).

 

[Teclis]

- management atm in pretty much most public hospitals is up to shit and most hospitals are run by incompetent fools

i.e. Doctors with no Businesness mind or Businessmen with no empathy...

Doctors who treat nurses like shit should go to Hell...

ay0_x... nurses do lots of work, but they don't do more work than Doctors... particularly seeing as in Australia, most Hospital doctors that aren't surgeons tend to be GPs consulting their own patients in Hospital. And most Hospitals tend to not pay any Doctor who's not on their staff... including things like most Obstetricians and the like.

 

[ay0_x]

i.e. Doctors with no Businesness mind or Businessmen with no empathy...

Doctors who treat nurses like shit should go to Hell...

ay0_x... nurses do lots of work, but they don't do more work than Doctors... particularly seeing as in Australia, most Hospital doctors that aren't surgeons tend to be GPs consulting their own patients in Hospital. And most Hospitals tend to not pay any Doctor who's not on their staff... including things like most Obstetricians and the like.

Oh I wasn't referring to GPs, respect for them. But specialists.. no, they don't do much work. My mother IS an obstetrician. I go to work with her sometimes because I love the nurses who work with her. She sits in a room for a few hours and the nurses come in and say "Said patient wants this and that" and "can we do this and that now" and "Should I this and that". She does operate but IMO the nurses do more overall work.