Age vs Years Nursing

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Can anyone share their AGE and YEARS NURSING? I am working on a statistics project and need to collect some data...

Thanks in advance!

Erika

Specializes in CMSRN.

Age 46, 13 years as RN. No other areas in the medical field.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I don’t know how y’all lasted so long. I’m coming up on four years and I’m tired!

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...am I in the wrong place or are most nurses seriously old enough to be ltc patients.?... "65" "72" "54" ..... Just teasing ? but seriously y'all are troopers... Most nurses I work with are much younger and even at our comparatively young age it's exhausting.

OP, I'm 27 and I've been a nurse for 6 years.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
6 hours ago, LPNpaired said:

...am I in the wrong place or are most nurses seriously old enough to be ltc patients.?... "65" "72" "54" ..... Just teasing ? but seriously y'all are troopers... Most nurses I work with are much younger and even at our comparatively young age it's exhausting.

OP, I'm 27 and I've been a nurse for 6 years.

"Just Teasing" doesn't make a comment like this okay. Please check yourself for bias and stereotyping.

It is actually very well documented that the aging nursing population is going to be a huge struggle for the United States in the coming years.

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Nursing was a second career for me. I worked in business first... but as a single mom had trouble finding steady employment. I have taught nurses in clinical one day a week for about 4 years on the side....some students are older than I am .... so much is perspective!

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61 years old

RN for 38 years!

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Specializes in APRN.

32yrs old & RN for 10 yrs

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Specializes in CRNA.

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EMT-Basic - 1 1/2 years

Paramedic - 7 years

RN - 5 years

I started in the medical field in 2006 when I was 23.

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Age: 68

Years as RN: 45

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
40 minutes ago, PRN213 said:

Age: 68

Years as RN: 45

You rock! I'm only 64.

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Specializes in Varied.

Age: 28

Years in Nursing: 4 years as an RN, was a CNA for 2 years before that.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

38 yrs as LVN/LPN ...64 yrs old

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