What motivates you to go to work every day?

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mazy

932 Posts

I'm a masochist with bills to pay. If I didn't have an excuse to get out of the house I would go completely batty.

Also, I really like my job, my co-workers, my residents, and for the most part, my facility.

All kidding aside, I love being a nurse, I love helping people, I thrive on chaos and dysfunction, and I couldn't ever see myself being happy doing anything else.

If I had a ton of money I would probably find a way to do this as a volunteer.

Caffeine_IV

1,198 Posts

Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

Money and health insurance.

If I didn't need those, I would work PRN...like one shift a week.

KateRN1

1,191 Posts

Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

My addictions to food, shelter, and clothing.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Four kids, a husband who can not pay everything alone, & we like to travel.

SwimNurseRun

23 Posts

Optimism. If I tell myself I'm going to have an easygoing day, great patients, steady but not chaotic, I'm going to have a great day and remember why I wanted to become a nurse in the first place. This can tend to backfire when we're short-staffed, but it at least will get me TO work. :)

Chaya, ASN, RN

932 Posts

Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
Optimism. If I tell myself I'm going to have an easygoing day, great patients, steady but not chaotic, I'm going to have a great day and remember why I wanted to become a nurse in the first place. This can tend to backfire when we're short-staffed, but it at least will get me TO work. :)

Interesting. I wouldn't even let myself THINK that. (Picture the Peanuts character with the little cloud over his head that follws him wherever he goes...). Likewise, I wouldn't even let anyone mentionthat "Q" word-if the word "quiet" passed anyone's lips before or during a shift we were doomed...

I go to work for the sheer joy of helping people. :rotfl: OK, now that I can breathe again after that laughing spell, honestly, I go to work to pay the bills. Once in a great while, I have an exceptional patient who realizes that I really went above and beyond the call of duty to help them (like yesterday), and they tell me how much they appreciate the extra effort. THAT's what really makes the job worthwhile.

VioletKaliLPN, LPN

1 Article; 450 Posts

I work LTC, for reference.

1.) My residents motivate me every day. We may not have everything we need 100% of the time, and it becomes annoying, but my residents keep me coming back.

I love my people.

Bortaz, MSN, RN

2,628 Posts

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
Honestly, this is the best job I've ever had in my life. The only thing about work that irks me is some of my co-workers, but I go home after each shift and forget about them.

Sums me up nicely, too.
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