Any FUN nursing Jobs?

Bessie · Jun 13, 2001

Okay, maybe this is asking a bit much...but I want to know if anyone is having any fun doing their job? Does anyone love to go to work? I don't mean they like it more than anything else in the world. :) Just tell me what you are doing or have done that is enjoyable, fun, funny... etc.

Thanks,

still searching for my nitch, Bessie

Charles S. Smith, RN, MS · Jun 13, 2001

Originally posted by Bessie:
Okay, maybe this is asking a bit much...but I want to know if anyone is having any fun doing their job? Does anyone love to go to work? I don't mean they like it more than anything else in the world. :) Just tell me what you are doing or have done that is enjoyable, fun, funny... etc.
Thanks,
still searching for my nitch, Bessie

Yes, I absolutely enjoy going to work. As an independent contractor in a professional practice group, I have choice in my life and career now. I have multiple options for every day and I love it!

chas

Charles S. Smith, RN, MS · Jun 13, 2001

Originally posted by Bessie:
Okay, maybe this is asking a bit much...but I want to know if anyone is having any fun doing their job? Does anyone love to go to work? I don't mean they like it more than anything else in the world. :) Just tell me what you are doing or have done that is enjoyable, fun, funny... etc.
Thanks,
still searching for my nitch, Bessie

Yes, I absolutely enjoy going to work. As an independent contractor in a professional practice group, I have choice in my life and career now. I have multiple options for every day and I love it!

chas

ornurse2001 · Jun 13, 2001

I enjoy my job well when there is something to do.I work in a small, rural hospital that is struggling to stay alive.I work in Surgery, but today for instance , we have one lap-chole and 2 LPN's and 3 RN's with which to do it.BORING.I am leaving this position soon to take a travel assignment and really excited about working in new places-seeing new people and learning new things.We'll see!

ornurse2001 · Jun 13, 2001

I enjoy my job well when there is something to do.I work in a small, rural hospital that is struggling to stay alive.I work in Surgery, but today for instance , we have one lap-chole and 2 LPN's and 3 RN's with which to do it.BORING.I am leaving this position soon to take a travel assignment and really excited about working in new places-seeing new people and learning new things.We'll see!

MollyJ · Jun 13, 2001

If I didn't have "fun" at my job, I would never work there. However, in nursing, fun is a by-product rather than the main, sought intent. I have fun with the students I work with, the staff I get to meet, my colleagues, other people I network with in my job. It happens many times unexpectedly.

You don't say what you do. In nursing, there has to be a certain willingness to experience some of the real painful things that we see along the way. To "sit with the pain" as the psych folks say it. If you are seeking "fun" to avoid that experience, there isn't probably enough fun in the world to go around. And I don't even know you, so I am not saying that is the deal here. But nursing IS pretty serious business, as we all know. I think those of us that like our jobs know how to look for the fun, but as I have posted before, if it isn't fun and rewarding at some point, I wouldn't stick around for it. Maybe you do need to keep going to find that niche.

Good luck.

MollyJ · Jun 13, 2001

If I didn't have "fun" at my job, I would never work there. However, in nursing, fun is a by-product rather than the main, sought intent. I have fun with the students I work with, the staff I get to meet, my colleagues, other people I network with in my job. It happens many times unexpectedly.

You don't say what you do. In nursing, there has to be a certain willingness to experience some of the real painful things that we see along the way. To "sit with the pain" as the psych folks say it. If you are seeking "fun" to avoid that experience, there isn't probably enough fun in the world to go around. And I don't even know you, so I am not saying that is the deal here. But nursing IS pretty serious business, as we all know. I think those of us that like our jobs know how to look for the fun, but as I have posted before, if it isn't fun and rewarding at some point, I wouldn't stick around for it. Maybe you do need to keep going to find that niche.

Good luck.

Charles S. Smith, RN, MS · Jun 13, 2001

Originally posted by MollyJ:
If I didn't have "fun" at my job, I would never work there. However, in nursing, fun is a by-product rather than the main, sought intent. I have fun with the students I work with, the staff I get to meet, my colleagues, other people I network with in my job. It happens many times unexpectedly.
You don't say what you do. In nursing, there has to be a certain willingness to experience some of the real painful things that we see along the way. To "sit with the pain" as the psych folks say it. If you are seeking "fun" to avoid that experience, there isn't probably enough fun in the world to go around. And I don't even know you, so I am not saying that is the deal here. But nursing IS pretty serious business, as we all know. I think those of us that like our jobs know how to look for the fun, but as I have posted before, if it isn't fun and rewarding at some point, I wouldn't stick around for it. Maybe you do need to keep going to find that niche.
Good luck.

Super insight as usual MollyJ! Finding one's niche is critical for all of life's opportunities. Coaching is a great way to help find niches and to bring about new meaning to a "stuck in a rut" or "boring" career. Professional and Personal Life Coaching has been critical to my success and I offer it as an option to other nurses. As an Integrative Coach, I work with nurses to find those niches. If any of you want info, see my website under the profile section. I offer complimentary sessions for nurses to find out about coaching and find out about themselves!

regards

chas

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Charles S. Smith, RN, MS · Jun 13, 2001

Originally posted by MollyJ:
If I didn't have "fun" at my job, I would never work there. However, in nursing, fun is a by-product rather than the main, sought intent. I have fun with the students I work with, the staff I get to meet, my colleagues, other people I network with in my job. It happens many times unexpectedly.
You don't say what you do. In nursing, there has to be a certain willingness to experience some of the real painful things that we see along the way. To "sit with the pain" as the psych folks say it. If you are seeking "fun" to avoid that experience, there isn't probably enough fun in the world to go around. And I don't even know you, so I am not saying that is the deal here. But nursing IS pretty serious business, as we all know. I think those of us that like our jobs know how to look for the fun, but as I have posted before, if it isn't fun and rewarding at some point, I wouldn't stick around for it. Maybe you do need to keep going to find that niche.
Good luck.

Super insight as usual MollyJ! Finding one's niche is critical for all of life's opportunities. Coaching is a great way to help find niches and to bring about new meaning to a "stuck in a rut" or "boring" career. Professional and Personal Life Coaching has been critical to my success and I offer it as an option to other nurses. As an Integrative Coach, I work with nurses to find those niches. If any of you want info, see my website under the profile section. I offer complimentary sessions for nurses to find out about coaching and find out about themselves!

regards

chas

[ June 13, 2001: Message edited by: Charles S. Smith, RN, MS ]

Sharon · Jun 13, 2001

I have a lot of fun at my job. And my message is long because I enjoy my profession. I do integrated disability and consult on occupational, environmental, and disaster health. I get the funniest situations to review. For instance the baker who didn’t want to shave his beard after National Guard duty because he had a “contagious infectious disease on his face and was using Gyne-Lotrimin.” I enjoyed explaining to the unemployment hearing examiner what was wrong with the paperwork.

In addition to the humor I get to spend a lot of time assisting people successfully through the healthcare system. One of the more recent successes involved a mother who had to have extensive abdominal surgery (reoccurring ventral hernia and lady partsl cancer) the day after her teenage daughter who had just given birth with urosepsis and had to have a protein renal calculi removed. With both hospitalized in two different hospitals, none of the hospital staff, insurance staff, local community health or numerous doctors offices had bothered to assist them with getting appropriate pre-certification, post hospital care or care for the 7 day old newborn. What information the mother had gotten was incorrect and wasted much of her time before hospitalization with inappropriate errands and tasks.

One of my daily tasks is to assist people who are frustrated with their healthcare. 50% of the time is because they have gotten no explanation or very little as to why things are or are not being done. For instance the teenager was informed her urine protein level would have to be checked every month for the rest of her life. But no one had explained why and what the outcome could be if it was elevated too long or that routine blood work would not pick up the problem until extensive renal damage had occurred. Nor was she told to tell her Ob, especially if she was pregnant later.

The other 50% and their doctors have been looking at the trees too long and have missed the Amazon when trying to find a diagnosis. I have had two cases where the doctors where treating arm pain/numbness and even the neurologist and neurosurgeons did not do x-rays for a couple of months, until I insisted. Once chest x-rays were done both were diagnosed with lung cancer and mets to the neck.

Sharon · Jun 13, 2001

I have a lot of fun at my job. And my message is long because I enjoy my profession. I do integrated disability and consult on occupational, environmental, and disaster health. I get the funniest situations to review. For instance the baker who didn’t want to shave his beard after National Guard duty because he had a “contagious infectious disease on his face and was using Gyne-Lotrimin.” I enjoyed explaining to the unemployment hearing examiner what was wrong with the paperwork.

In addition to the humor I get to spend a lot of time assisting people successfully through the healthcare system. One of the more recent successes involved a mother who had to have extensive abdominal surgery (reoccurring ventral hernia and lady partsl cancer) the day after her teenage daughter who had just given birth with urosepsis and had to have a protein renal calculi removed. With both hospitalized in two different hospitals, none of the hospital staff, insurance staff, local community health or numerous doctors offices had bothered to assist them with getting appropriate pre-certification, post hospital care or care for the 7 day old newborn. What information the mother had gotten was incorrect and wasted much of her time before hospitalization with inappropriate errands and tasks.

One of my daily tasks is to assist people who are frustrated with their healthcare. 50% of the time is because they have gotten no explanation or very little as to why things are or are not being done. For instance the teenager was informed her urine protein level would have to be checked every month for the rest of her life. But no one had explained why and what the outcome could be if it was elevated too long or that routine blood work would not pick up the problem until extensive renal damage had occurred. Nor was she told to tell her Ob, especially if she was pregnant later.

The other 50% and their doctors have been looking at the trees too long and have missed the Amazon when trying to find a diagnosis. I have had two cases where the doctors where treating arm pain/numbness and even the neurologist and neurosurgeons did not do x-rays for a couple of months, until I insisted. Once chest x-rays were done both were diagnosed with lung cancer and mets to the neck.