All my friends are RNs

Published

I've noticed that I really don't have any close, non-nurse friends. All my friends are RNs.

Over the years, here and there, I've befriended fellow nurses in various units.

I'm not opposed to being friends with non nurses, but that's the way it's gone. All my friends are nurses.

Specializes in ER, Med/Surg, Telemetry, Dialysis.
I have no friends close or otherwise. I don't really want to be friends with nurses, or doctors for that matter.[/quote']

I have no friends either, just some acquaintances, and I'm totally okay with it! I used to have friends in my 20s but we chose different paths in life and now I'm too introverted and lazy to make any new ones. After working with people all week I'm exhausted by socialization and really just prefer my own company. Every once in a while I start feeling lonely but not enough to change. I do have a wonderful partner and he's my best friend so I'm not totally alone. Anyways, just wanted to throw some support to a fellow friendless person 😁

Up Vote Up Vote ×

My best friends are all church people. No nurses.

In my early 20's, however, my entire social circle was the nurses from my job. We were all young, newly married, and at the same place in our lives.

When we started having kids, we all drifted apart, and other than the occasional Christmas card, I never see them.

I will always treasure those times. Our group was very "St. Elmo's Fire", and part of me will always miss what we had.

Life goes on...

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I currently have 1 best friend. We certainly didn't plan on becoming best friends - our first couple of encounters looked similar to when you introduce a new cat into a home with older cats. Life is strange. Now we are both nurses and we really do rely on each other to deal with the crap that comes with the territory.

I had very close friends from pre-marriage/children, but I settled into middle-class soccer mom life, and they are still very much into the alternative lifestyles/screw "the Man"/middle aged perpetual teens life. It's hard to reconcile their dependence on the herb to bring a party to life, or the casual use of prescription drugs for a good time, when I see the broken people and the shambles of lives addiction leaves behind.

I'd rather be friends with nurses and social workers or doctors, paramedics, etc.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

I have a lot of nurse acquaintances that I do see socially. Mostly in the "hey, lets grab a drink after work" group. My Mom is a retired nurse so we often discuss nursy stuff. My true friends however...not one of them is a nurse.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Most of my friends are not nurses. I like to keep work life separate from home life. I know a lot of nurses but my close friends are from all walks of life and we have one thing in common, we are the golf girls. We travel to different states for weekends just to leave work and stress behind. But my very best friend is my DH, the one person that knows me and I can count on to always be there.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I've moved so much I've left all my friends behind.

My social life currently consists of calling my family, who live across the country, or socializing with my husband's work friends. Or, hanging out with the hubs (who is my #1BFF for reals).

I have some FB buds, but mostly no IRL friends.

I'm too socially awkward to make friends quickly, so I have to be somewhere longer than eight months to make them. Hasn't happened in years.

Also, I hate talking on the phone and e-mail is soooo 90's. Nobody emails back! Maybe I could start texting.

And, I have no idea how to KEEP a friend once I've made one.

Anyway, all the ones I do talk to occasionally are from college. I don't have any nurse friends, except virtual ones. And I love those!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Dialysis.
Interesting. If you saw the people I hang around with, you definitely wouldn't think I am a nurse. You would probably be in "hide your wife, hide your kids" mode.

LOL, good to see you haven't lost your sense of humor!!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

All my friends are engineers. Im still a nerd even after school

Up Vote Up Vote ×
LOL, good to see you haven't lost your sense of humor!!

I have a feeling that NOADLS wasn't joking...:greyalien:

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Maintaining friendships is exhausting to me. When I get home from work, I want to be left alone. I am friendly when I am at work, but that's as far as I like it to go.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

My close-by BFF is a teacher. My lives-5-states-away BFF from college #1 is a physical therapist.

I also have a few local "good" friends, We manage to all get together every few years (seriously!) for dinner. We all have families so it gets hard to schedule stuff between soccer games/basketball/cross-country etc.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
No friends at all? Bummer, I can't imagine getting through this difficult life and career without friends to text snarky comments to, share a bite to eat and some laughs.

On the contrary, it makes it easier to go through life. I don't trust anybody to be snarky with, or to let my guard down with. People make my life more difficult. I am hoping to get out of nursing, at least clinical nursing. In the meantime, I do my best to stay below the radar, stay somewhat friendly with coworkers, but only enough to not get on someone's s*** list. I work PACU weekends now and I am the only PACU nurse in the building unless I need a backup. When I tell people this, they think I'm crazy, but really, this is the most ideal nursing position I've held so far. It's pretty awesome how I don't have to see another human being for hours at a time.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion