Employer Type: Hospital (United States)

NO job is secure. Nurses are very loyal to much of our own expense. OR Nursing is very physical and labor intensive. If you can not keep up you will be replaced by less experienced people who will take less pay. The bottom line for employers is time and money saved. I recomend that a new OR nurse stay in hospital training for 2 years then do Travel Nursing jobs. Save your money and plan for retirement debt free. I also recomend that a new Nurse consider the military (Air Force) do 20 years and retire. Never forget to enjoy life, so many of us work so hard that when we "wake up" we find that our bodies will not allow us to do some of the things we want to do or go to some of the places we want to go to...... Bottom line the job will be there when you are dead and gone and after you leave your employer you will probably be forgotton in 1-2 years......

I don't know if this will get posted or not but don't pay thousands of dollars to become a pharmacy technician!!!! It is so on the job. I wanted to go to school and the pharmacist told me he'd teach me all I needed to know. He did and I'm now certified (I got study guides and studied on my own), working for the federal gov't. I started in retail. It's cool, but not much money in it. More money in radiation therapy or being a sonographer. God bless.

As most of us know Health Care is about numbers and money. Loyalty doesn't have a place in the corporate world. Nurses work from the heart. If we didn't we wouldn't be good at our jobs. Regardless of education, length of employment, loyalty and ethics, nurses are still considered a liability on the "balance sheets". We cost companies money. Where do companies cut costs? Reduce employees. This is a never ending cycle. One that cost our patients the care they deserve. Heavier patient loads, more paperwork, more chances for lawsuits,.....not encouraging. Hopefully, someday things will turn around. In the meantime, chart everything you do. If you don't, it is not done in the court of law. Do your best to give great patient care. Continue to LEARN everything you can! We will prevail!

Always do your best and at the same time, have teamwork. If everyone has teamwork, things will go a lot smoother. There will always be one person in the crowd that will try and ruin things. My perspective, stay positive and SMILE.