I know we're not in the "cool" fields, we're not the elite, we're not the big money makers or the big movers or shakers....
but all in all, I feel great satisfaction over what I do, even if some of it is mundane.....
because there is no replacing the gratitude you feel when you help people, or their families, or usher patients thru the death process, or hug families who are torn up, or hold a very lonely and confused man's hand when he doesn't know where the heck he is.....
working with the very great people in the health field is the ultimate....the great doctors, the fellow nurses, the RT's and the social workers......we all have this unwritten language.......we feel the pulse of life every day.....you just can not beat that.....
The work I do is mainly to help the nurses. The nurses are the ones who get the complaints about the bad food, lousy bed. The nurses get the insults from families. The nurses get things thrown at them, get hit, punched, spit on, cursed at. The nurses have to explain that they can't do something until the doctor orders it and then get called over and over again to the patient's room to hear the patient ask over and over again "has the doctor ordered it yet? Can't you call him again?"
I can't stand to watch the sniveling talk shows where some movie star comes on and makes a big deal out of how much work they do and things like that. After spending 5 years, 2 in a nursing home and 2 1/2 in a hospital and seeing the suffering of the patients and the miracles we call nurses, I can't stand to hear alot of the whining elsewhere.