FACTS i or Some Might Hate About Being a Nurse

FACTS i or some might hate about being a nurse :P (reposted) EIGHT Nurses wear all white. You know how inconvenient plus hard to maintain that is? Okay, I came to duty on a heavy rain and mud starts making its way up my white uniform and there it is, a stain to last my entire shift. SEVEN We don t get a professional fee (PF). We also have a license, and that makes us professionals too. But we don t have a professional fee and we live on meager salary regardless of how many patients we ve handled or cases we ve assisted. SIX We do not have a holiday. Everyone in the industry can relate to this, I wouldn t dare watch out for holidays because I just feel hopeless. The entire country rests lazily on their couches while I stand tired my dear. FIVE We can t leave unfinished work. I mean office workers do that, do they? They can leave unfinished works and get to it the next morning. But nurses have to stay for as long as needed because we just can t leave things undone. Life is at stake and life can t wait. FOUR We are the complaints center, if there is such a thing. When patients have a complaint on just about anything, they complain to the nurse. Not to the housekeeping staff, guard, doctor, or anyone else. Directly to the nurse; blame that for being too available. THREE Refer this and that. Even if I know what drug to give, and I have it right here in my very hands; I can t give it, I always need to refer and ask for a prescription. I say nurses carry immense responsibility but very little authority, now how more frustrating can that get? TWO We are not treated as professionals. Leaking faucet? Faulty TV? We are always asked to do things we are not supposed to do. I mean, we ve studied four dreaded years and earn ourselves a license for what? Fixing your TV signal? Hell no. Nurses are professionals like engineers, accountants, lawyers, and your beloved doctors whom you do not dare raise one eyebrow while you mindlessly shout at your nurse like your entire hospital bill goes straight to her salary. ONE Nursing is more than a sacrifice, it s suicide. From nursing school to nurse s station, enough sleep, enough food, nor enough rest is next to impossible. Here s one idea that I ve thought of just now: nurses religiously monitor patients urine output but at the end of the shift we realize we haven t once gone to the bathroom: and that makes ours zero. So,if there s one profession that wholly uses up one s existence: be it mentally, physically, and emotionally, you got it: it s Nursing.