Nurses...job description, hours etc.
beingmore1
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There are a lot of different areas nurses can go into. Different job settings as well....office, hospital, school, etc.
What type of job do you have? What hours do you work? Do you enjoy it or is it too draining?
I’m considering this as an occupation although I am concerned about the hours as all I know are nurses who have to work very long shifts. Not sure that would work for me.
Also....did you get an associates degree and then find a job that would pay for your further education for BSN or even nurse practitioner?
Please chime in nurses....id like to know different opinions and pathways.
What type of job do you have? What hours do you work? Do you enjoy it or is it too draining?
I’m considering this as an occupation although I am concerned about the hours as all I know are nurses who have to work very long shifts. Not sure that would work for me.
Also....did you get an associates degree and then find a job that would pay for your further education for BSN or even nurse practitioner?
Please chime in nurses....id like to know different opinions and pathways.
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You know what’s weird? I was literally just now thinking to myself.. why is there such a disproportionate number of nurses on mfp?
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Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.0 -
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RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.0 -
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beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
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beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
They refer to it as a brown eye examination, for insurance billing purposes.3 -
Caporegiem wrote: »beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
They refer to it as a brown eye examination, for insurance billing purposes.
How'd you know? Btw, you are due for your monthly brown eye exam.0 -
RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
They refer to it as a brown eye examination, for insurance billing purposes.
How'd you know? Btw, you are due for your monthly brown eye exam.
He gets them monthly??? That is so unfair0 -
caco_ethes wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
They refer to it as a brown eye examination, for insurance billing purposes.
How'd you know? Btw, you are due for your monthly brown eye exam.
He gets them monthly??? That is so unfair
Since it's not regulated very heavily I alternate between 4 different offices so I can get them weekly.1 -
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abetterme9366 wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »caco_ethes wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
They refer to it as a brown eye examination, for insurance billing purposes.
How'd you know? Btw, you are due for your monthly brown eye exam.
He gets them monthly??? That is so unfair
Since it's not regulated very heavily I alternate between 4 different offices so I can get them weekly.
Smart. You can never be too diligent with your prostate health.
Yeah that's the excuse I use.0 -
beingmore1 wrote: »There are a lot of different areas nurses can go into. Different job settings as well....office, hospital, school, etc.
What type of job do you have? What hours do you work? Do you enjoy it or is it too draining?
I’m considering this as an occupation although I am concerned about the hours as all I know are nurses who have to work very long shifts. Not sure that would work for me.
Also....did you get an associates degree and then find a job that would pay for your further education for BSN or even nurse practitioner?
Please chime in nurses....id like to know different opinions and pathways.
Maybe you should ask this in the selfie thread or in Fun and Games. Seems to be a bunch of nurses there.2 -
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beingmore1 wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal examRunHardBeStrong wrote: »RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Caporegiem wrote: »
Even if your scrubs are about to bust at the seams? Cuz that's how mine feel today. I ate too much bday cake over the weekend.
Happy birthday now please give me a rectal exam
Bend over and cough, you will feel just a little pressure.
Thank you but not my birthday but I used someone else's bday in my house as an excuse to have more than one piece of bday cake.
Wait a minute....you have to get rectal exams at the eye doctors office now?!! I might rethink my appointment.
We use this as an excuse not to come to work sometimes in my profession. We call it anal glocoma. "I can't see my *kitten* coming to work today"1 -
Nurses have an internal need to take care of people I think. And I have needs that they need to take care of.
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beingmore, I would take your prerequisites and go apply them towards a two year associates radiology technician degree. There's also high demand and it's growing
Please do your homework on this. I left the computer field almost 10 years ago to get my bachelors in imaging. Not sure where the high demand and growth are, but I haven't seen it. Hospitals are taking advantage of healthcare workers. The administrative explotation isn't relegated just to nurses. Sure you may find a job, but the majority are per diem positions. That means you will only work when they need you and will have ZERO benefits, so you will need more than one job. Healthcare is not worth wasting your time and energy.2 -
You should! I think you'd be great at it! I suggest doing your associates and get a job and then work for the BSN. I went straight through to BSN and then worked for a few years before I got my MSN/Nurse Practitioner, but if I could have been working sooner, I would have taken that route.
Also, if you work in the hosps you'll most likely start on 2nd or third shift and be required to work weekends, but if you can find a doctor's office job, you could get 9-5 m-f.0 -
You're right actually. Your post definitely reflects the unvarnished reality of the healthcare workplace and it's slavish dynamics.
It's been 7 years since I've looked into the stats on imaging educational requirements and job growth prediction. So, yeah, the market has likely been more and more saturated with graduates from the two year programs. Yes, it would make sense that all of healthcare has become more and more exploitative as so many are jumping on the bandwagon thinking such jobs would equal a "career".
I agree that for a young person, healthcare is not the way to go within any capacity. Other than getting a master's and becoming a healthcare overlord, which basically requires selling one's soul - it appeals to only a certain few. Thank goodness.
But for a married person over the age of 35 (which I think describes the OP but she can correct me if I'm wrong) I think it's okay under certain conditions to consider a run-of-the-mill nurse or technician job. A mature person will realize healthcare positions are jobs, not missions to save the world, not opportunities to virtue signal and it's best not even to consider them careers.
Also, if one spouse already has health insurance and is gainfully employed, the other spouse would be okay with per diem healthcare work. Especially if they have kids and don't have to work 12 and 16 hour healthcare shifts to make ends meet. For the OP, this might meet her criteria and be of benefit to her.
I agree with all of this. I laughed so hard about, "becoming a healthcare overlord!!" It's so true. Some of my co-workers have been in healthcare for 30+ yrs and they have seen how it has gone from, all about quality patient care to, all about the pennies. Very sad.
You are right, I totally forgot about if the other spouse's income and insurance covers the family, then per diem actually would be great. Especially since you have the option to say no if, say, the kids are sick or family wants to take a vacation, etc.2 -
I'm an Australian nurse in the public sector, so a different set up entirely to the US for profit healthcare system.
I completed a 3 yr bachelor degree then worked in the acute hospital setting in medical/surgical and cardiac wards. This was shift work, rotating all 3 shifts. It was not family friendly or easy to maintain work/life balance.
During that time I completed a post graduate diploma in cardiovascular nursing. I now work in a procedural area doing coronary angiograms, right heart caths, stenting, electrophysiology studies, pericardial taps, cardioversions and pacemaker insertions etc.
This is mostly a day job. 4 x 10 hr days, plus on call for emergencies (out of hospital cardiac arrests, severe heart attacks etc) several days per month. This is a little more manageable but still long hours.
I've been nursing 7 years now. There is an 'eat your young' culture innnursing but here in Australia competent nurses are well respected an have a great union.
It's a great job for a person who is passionate about helping people and providing safe and quality care. It's not for everyone but in my love/hate relationship with health care mostly I do love my job.
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There will always, no matter what, be a need for nurses.
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