Any nurses out there, who still love their job?

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All I ever hear about on Mumsnet is nurses who are burnt out, hate their jobs, etc. just wondering if there are any nurses who still love their jobs?
I've been qualified as a paediatric nurse 20 years this year. And I can't imagine doing anything else. Many of my colleagues are the same. I'm
Not denying the NHS has issues and patients are more demanding. It would be nice to hear some positive stories!

Obviously I'm the only one!

I’m a community nurse, I would say I still love my job but the pressures of understaffing and massive increase in demand on our service have definitely given me days of frustration and upset but yeah I do still love being a nurse. The friendships I’ve made, the funny experiences , the hard experiences, the unforgettable patients, the laughs I’ve had will stay with me forever and I imagine the same goes for you.

I'm 34 years in this year, 52 years old and out in three years.
Work in general practice. It's mostly thankless now tbh. I don't love it. And none of the nurses I work with do either. There's a huge staffing timebomb ticking.

I love my job but hate what it has become. The pressure today was horrific and a manger made me cry. I love looking after patients, but it feels so dangerous and I am afraid I will lose my pin on a daily basis. Everything is broken, no equipment, no budget so not really able to provide proper and timely care.
I have been moved to run a super surge area and when I went in today I had 14 patients and it was just me and a lovely HCA (who worked tirelessly).
The patients are often lovely but I feel like I am letting them down with substandard care
Corridor care has become the acceptable norm 😔.

I mostly do. 30 years qualified and 24 in primary care. It’s a great job in many ways but I can feel myself getting fatigued, physically and emotionally.

I’m increasingly intolerant of the pick and mix/demanding/entitled/misinformed/unwilling attitude of increasing numbers of patients and incredibly frustrated by the constant targets and hoops we have to jump through. Required to deliver a champagne service on a lemonade budget.

I do love aspects of it. It’s a privilege to care for people.

I love aspects of it. I’m 10 years in and now community based, night shifts. It’s lots of palliative care. I love the direct patient contact, being able to care and attend to people, I hate all the barriers, the systems, the funding, the staffing.
Sometimes I think I want to leave nursing but I don’t think anything else would give me what nursing does, despite all the shit.

I used to love my job but staff have left and not been replaced, pressures from management grow and patients have unrealistic expectations regarding service availability in a very rural area.

In addition the pay for the level of skill and responsibility is shocking.

I'm beginning to wish I'd chosen another door in the careers office!

Love my job! In primary care but nurse practitioner role, still developing and doing hours that suit having small children!

I love it. Community based and as someone else has said- nursing is a privilege and I honestly feel like I’m lucky to be able to have such a role in peoples’ lives… yes it can be bloody hard, and soul destroying at times… and the staffing issues and social care issues etc are real and difficult… but the actually job. Great.
I’ve worked over Christmas and New Year… but even that was enjoyable and I didn’t really feel hard done by…

Also a paediatric nurse and love my job most of the time. Some days I hate it when we have a lot of very challenging patients/ families or a lot of patients die or the shifts are dangerously short staffed and i anm exhausted . But, mostly I like it. I work with a brilliant team, most of the patients and their families are lovely.

I love it! It is a total privilege to help other people during the absolute worst times of their lives. Although it’s a tough job and I do feel very demoralised at the way the NHS is being destroyed. There are lots of benefits to nursing, but these are starting to be outweighed by the poor pay and conditions.

I don’t think I would like nursing if I still worked in a hospital though!

I love my job, I've been qualified 4years. I did leave NHS to go work in the private sector though. It's so much better for my work life balance and the pay is great so I can't complain.

I'm a nurse specialist and I really enjoy my job, some days are harder than others but overall I enjoy what I do.

I can't imagine doing anything other than nursing, the other nurses I work with are a phenomenal bunch of (mostly) women and I love being part of that club.

Waves at @ForestofBears, A couple of weeks ago we had the most toxic bunch of parents I've ever known. I don't know what was wrong with them. It was completely bizarre.

I like the actual job itself but not working with entitled and lazy staff or ineffective managers who are too scared to be assertive and deal with problems.

Bring back old-style matrons!

Yes- palliative care nurse. I work somewhere which values proper care. I am in the most privileged position to support families at this time.

Love it. Running my own community clinic now and banking as a community nurse. Monday to Friday 9-5 core hours. Frustrating with the lack of options for progression within my field however - will have to look at other avenues if I want a band 7. Currently happy where I am though. Could never go back to the acute setting!

I am 25 years +.

Absolutely loved every minute of my job but was forced out.
Did different roles which I enjoyed.
Proud to be a nurse, proud to have served the NHS for as long as I did.

But COVID and politics beat me to a pulp.
With less than 10 days off sick in nearly 30 years service, I’m an old school pretty hardy old bird but was so damaged physically and psychologically that I left the NHS.

I am still in nursing but in the private sector.
It’s like night & day…. In a super good way.
Im recovered and well now. Think I would be dead had I stayed.

Partner of DS is a nurse in A&E is an outer London hospital. She's been a nurse for 6 years and worked through COVID which was hard on her mental health but is still loving it. She was promoted a while ago and has a chance of a Band 7 post in the Spring but it would take her out of A&E which she isn't sure about. She loves the people she works with which keeps her going after a nightmare shift.

Sorry not me. I used to love it if that's any help.

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