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Poll: Breaking Down Barriers
Poll: What has been the most difficult part about breaking into the nursing industry?
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Posted over 4 years ago What was the most difficult part for you? |
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| Posted over 4 years ago The most difficult part for me is the politics involved. The area I am in is very cliquey and it is very hard to get a job other than hospital or long term care. I almost feel like I would have to move to get another job. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Politics is also an issue at the hospital where I work. It's really frustrating to see the people who are NOT very good people or nurses getting away with just about anything, but because they have a pal higher up they manage to keep their job and their license. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be the person with a strong work ethic, or for that matter just ethics. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago The job thing was a big issue for me because I had been a LPN for 10 years when I received my RN and when I would go on interviews, I was either getting no credit for my LPN years or partial. This meant that I would have to start low on the pay scale. It was frustrating! |
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| Posted over 4 years ago The most difficult part was dealing with racism of my instructors. Once I proved them all wrong and got out of school, everythign becam much easier. |
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| Posted about 4 years ago Getting into the program was challenging and I did it. Working and balancing school and family was tough, and I am doing it. Putting up witn the petty bull from instructors (discrimination, humiliation , harrassment). ......it is the reason we have a shortage. If this is how students are treated, then what is the incentive to want to pursue this. Then nurses "eat their own" too. Why does this "sick" dynamic exist? It seems pervasive throughout the profession and almost replicates hazing. All of these behaviors in the workplace have laws against them....yet they continue. Until the pecking order changes...this will continue. Otherwise, the healthcare system in America is going to be in for some much tougher times. It is up all of the parties involved to work to change this professional culture so that it is as healthy as we aspire to encourage in clients. |
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| Posted about 4 years ago For me, getting into the program was difficult. But what I faced after graduation was the toughest. I am a young nurse. I'm only 23 and when I actually became a nurse I was 19. I found out that alot of "old school" nurses HATED young nurses and I had even been told that I was too young to know anything about nursing, or too young to be taken seriously. Its was really ridiculous and still is! I am still faced with prejudices about my age and my career choice to this day. And it really is hard trying to get that respect from collegues. That makes me have to work that much harder just so that I can prove a point to everyone. It really is unfair...like seriously what was I supposed to do; ask "would you like fries with that?" when I graduated high school. I knew what I wanted and I went for it! I just hope that it stops one day. New nurses are the future, and from my experiences no matter how far I go in my career I will never treat others that way. |
