I wanted to be a nurse all my life but now I am one I hate it – we’re treated like robots & patients are violent to us

AT just 10 years old, Tatiana Williams* figured out what she wanted to be when she grew up.

But unfortunately, her decision was due to tragic circumstances.

In 2008, Tatiana was in a major car accident that left her leg torn to the bone.

She had to undergo several surgeries to save her leg and spent months in the hospital recovering.

It was at this time she saw the incredible treatment her nursing staff gave her and she was inspired to do the same as a career.

“They actually cared about the whole person, you know? Mind, body, and spirit,” she told The Sun.

Tatiana graduated from nursing school in 2020 and was excited to start her career in healthcare at a Colorado hospital.

But she soon realized things were drastically different than what she had expected.

Back when Tatiana was a patient, she said it was “really cool” how her nurses took the time to get to know her and went further than just fixing her “immediate body problems.”

Now, as a nurse in a orthopedic medical surgery unit, she’s not able to be as personable as her nurses were all of those years ago.

“I feel like now us nurses are expected to be like f***ing robots and we’re not human, we don’t make mistakes, and we can just work these long hours.”

Besides all of the issues that arise from being short-staffed, treating demanding patients is an especially difficult aspect of Tatiana’s job.

She explained that many of her patients are rude and some have even gotten violent.

One patient threw an IV pole at her, she said, and added that those violent occurrences happen “more times than you think.”

“People are f***ing rude and mean and cuss at us,” she emphasized.

Tatiana told The Sun of one particularly horrible patient who she said she will “never, ever forget in [her] life.”

He constantly yelled curses at her, made a ton of demands, and even threw his medication at her.

She said: “He was so much work. He was so so mean. He would like, waste our time.”

“He would be like ‘move this, do that” very demanding.”

The hospital staff even kept a list to rotate that patient’s nurses so that they wouldn’t get burnt out on treating him.

Knowing what she knows now about nursing, Tatiana said she probably wouldn’t have gone into healthcare back when she was in school.

Interestingly enough, Tatiana added that the nurses that had taken care of her when she was 10 years old have all quit and moved on to different careers.

But, Tatiana continues to push through her difficult patients and long hours because she said she has bills to pay.

*Name has been changed