[GreenNurse24258]

I am a new nurse. One reason we don’t have more young people going into nursing is that nurses ‘eat their young’. Older nurses are very unsupportive and arrogant toward new nurses. I know, I’ve been through it already. You pick and pick instead of helping that new nurse get to where she/he needs to be to grow. The older nurses gripe and complain, but yet, I don’t see any of them leaving the profession. I feel that if one has been in the nursing profession for 25+ years, then it can’t be that bad to you. Then, too, the pay is too low for new graduates and they have to do too much for those few dollars. I mean, think about it. You are responsible for someone else’s life. I think one should be paid for that responsibility. I mean, you can actually kill someone despite all you do. Then, you have to deal with arrogant SOBs called doctors. The doctors come in and write tons of orders in illegible handwriting. Then you are expected to juggle 7-8 patients and kiss the doctor’s behind because they think they are God. They don’t respect the nurses. I tell you, the profession should be rewarding. It is true, nothing is more rewarding than helping your fellow man. But when you do all you can to help people and then the patients are ungrateful and their families bitch about every little thing, why would one want to be a nurse? There is no respect for nurses and what we give and I think that when young people hear and see that, they choose to go on to another career where you can make more money. Sometimes I feel that it’s not worth it to be a nurse anymore. Something needs to be done to attract more young people to because the shortage is only going to get worse as the population ages and lives longer. Who will care for these patients if we don’t support and retain the nurses we have and foster the efforts to attract more people to it? We must respect our nurses, and the older nurses need to either support their new colleagues or get out of the way.

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Name : GreenNurse24258, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 26, City : Jacksonville, State : AL, Country : United States, Occupation : Registered Nurse, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

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