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| No. 10 | 
Jul 04, 2007, 12:51 AM
 Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot Originally Posted by Fiona59  Take the promotion. I'm off with a work related injury. After seven years, I finally found a position that fits my life. BUT I have to work every other weekend.
I only managed to be at school events, get the vacation I wanted, weekends off when I worked casual and picked up often the lousiest shifts that the regular staff didn't want. No benefits, no pension for the first seven years of my career.
There are great days at work but all in all there are more why days. Non compliant patients, verbal abuse from patients and their families, department politics and shift work and statutory holidays being hard to get off.
Lets not even mention the guilt that work plays with you when they are short staffed and want you to work nights, extra weekends, extra shifts, so your co-workers aren't understaffed.
What happened to put you out of work? I hope that you heal soon. I know about guilt...I called in sick yesterday because I was just tired and needed additional rest. When I went in today, the other nurses started telling me how hard it was since they were short...like I really cared.
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Jul 04, 2007, 01:12 AM
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Jul 04, 2007 at 01:14 AM by BigB
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot
Consider this....at my place of employment you need about 11 years in before you can get the pinnicle of shifts, the 6am - 2:30pm. Early in your career you get stuck on graveyard or the dreaded 3 - 11pm shift. The 3 - 11 pm shifts is the worst in my opinion. I rather, and do, work the graveyard shift. On this shift I can see my family more. That is very important too me. Most my life I have worked the 3 - 11pm shift and have missed out on a lot family get togethers, holiday dinners, etc. It can kill a marriage if your spouse works the morning shift and you work the 3 -11pm shift. You don't get to see each other or your children, and once then are in school...forget about it! You leave for work BEFORE they get home and when you get home at 11:30pm..they are sleeping.
| | No. 12 |
Jul 04, 2007, 01:28 AM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot
So, I am having second thoughts. How do I figure this one out? I have already made up my mind that I do NOT want to work any other shifts than days. Here in AZ it's either 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am. Agencies claim you get to pick your hours but not sure how true that is. This is hard for me since my husband is in sales and some days doesn't even get home before 8pm. Who will be taking care of my kids if Im not off until 7pm? The reason a part of me wants to be an RN is that I really love Labor & Delivery and my goal was to do that type of nursing. Am I just talking myself out of this?? Im not sure how a job as an LPN is going to work around my family life...which is number one for me!!!! Any advice...anyone???
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Jul 04, 2007, 05:58 AM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot
I would take the promotion, as Central Florida is not known for excellent LPN pay rates. Even their RNs don't earn a great deal of money. Also, I am admittedly lazy, and would prefer a decently-paying desk job with minimal human contact.
I have been an LVN for 1.5 years and must deal with rude physicians, abusive family members, backstabbing coworkers, sorry nurse managers, unpleasant sights and odors, long hours on my feet, high stress levels, needy patients who pull me in all directions, the overall lack of respect, and aches and pains. Most older nurses who have been in the field for many years suffer from extreme back problems.
In addition, nursing is very low on the interdisciplinary food chain due to our educational level. Occupational therapists are educated at the master's degree level, physical therapists are educated at the doctorate degree level, dieticians have a minimum of B.S. degrees, the people in the business department have BBAs and MBAs, and the lab analysts have B.S. degrees in molecular biology.
However, nurses tend to be the least educated professionals in the healthcare facilities, and this is the truth. This is why many doctors are so brusque toward nurses. Nurses tend to have less educational attainment than physicians, so the docs are sometimes very mean. I know of an RN with a BSN who is attending medical school, and she is afraid to reveal her nursing background to the other medical students. This is because the medical students continually make horrible comments about how stupid nurses are.
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Jul 04, 2007, 06:02 AM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot Originally Posted by sassiebaz Im not sure how a job as an LPN is going to work around my family life...which is number one for me!!!! Any advice...anyone???
I am fully aware that L&D is your goal, but nursing home jobs tend to offer flexible 8-hour shifts that coincide quite well with family life. As an LPN, you could be hired for the 6am to 2pm shift, or the 7am to 3pm shift. At my facility, most of the nurses with children work this shift because they are able to spend the rest of the day with their families.
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Jul 04, 2007, 03:40 PM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot Originally Posted by TheCommuter I am fully aware that L&D is your goal, but nursing home jobs tend to offer flexible 8-hour shifts that coincide quite well with family life. As an LPN, you could be hired for the 6am to 2pm shift, or the 7am to 3pm shift. At my facility, most of the nurses with children work this shift because they are able to spend the rest of the day with their families.
I guess it may be best to call around to some LTC facilitis and ask some seious questions.
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Jul 04, 2007, 07:40 PM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot Originally Posted by TheCommuter I have been an LVN for 1.5 years and must deal with rude physicians, abusive family members, backstabbing coworkers, sorry nurse managers, unpleasant sights and odors, long hours on my feet, high stress levels, needy patients who pull me in all directions, the overall lack of respect, and aches and pains. Most older nurses who have been in the field for many years suffer from extreme back problems.
No wonder you only work the 2 days a week. Could you imagine dealing with that for 5 days in a row!! I use to and it drove me nuts. One of the reasons I decided to work in the prisons was the fact that I would have zero contact with "patient" family members. Its sad but everything you listed, and everything LTC LVN's complain about, could be eliminated and solved if the staffing ratios were better. 1 nurse for 15 patients max.
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Jul 04, 2007, 07:41 PM
Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot Originally Posted by TheCommuter I am fully aware that L&D is your goal, but nursing home jobs tend to offer flexible 8-hour shifts that coincide quite well with family life. As an LPN, you could be hired for the 6am to 2pm shift, or the 7am to 3pm shift. At my facility, most of the nurses with children work this shift because they are able to spend the rest of the day with their families.
I did like this about LTC. The hospitals around here all seemed to do the 7am - 7pm shifts and you couldn't tweak the hours.
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Jul 05, 2007, 09:17 AM
 Re: Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promot
Wow! Nursing, Tell you the truth, I'd take the promotion! been in nursing for almost 40 years, my girls grew up with mom home only every other weekend, they didn't know if Christmas was on Christmas eve or christmas day, it depended on when I had off. Holidays were always being either postboned or at grandmas without me. That part really stunk! Otherwise, I LOVE NURSING! My girls are grown now, they don't either one of them look back and say, it's too bad we didn't get all the holidays together. They always comment on how proud they were and are of my being a nurse and happy they always were that I enjoy my job. But, the weekend and holiday thing was always an issue for me!
After previewing this post, I see that it doesn't help you at all!!!!!!
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