Average age of nurses on your unit

Specialties MICU

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How old are the nurses on your unit? In mine the average age of the nurses in mid 20's I work at a large level one hospital in MICU. What about y'all?!?

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I have found that in larger academic centers the staff are on the most part younger. mid 20's. Outside that they are typically older especially the night shift. 30-40's. Then you have dinosaurs like me....;)

I think older/experienced nurses have a lower tolerance to residents. At least that is my feeling....as I got older I had less tolerance for their fresh faced arrogance. :yawn:

But that is just me.

My husband and I are both dinosauers -- I'm in my late 50s, he's in his early 60s. We've worked in large teaching hospitals our entire careers. My tolerance for residents is still good -- however I work in a place where the attendings set a fine example by being nice to the nursing staff. I haven't encountered an arrogant resident for 10 years. Perhaps because I remind them of their mothers? DH and I are the oldest nurses we know. After us, there's one nurse in her forties, a dozen in their thirties and the rest are twenty-somethings on the two year (or less) plan.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
My MICU is mostly 20s, some early 30s. Im 23 myself. Our night shift staff is older than the day shift, like late 30s-early 40s.

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Specializes in ICU Surgical Trauma.

average age on my unit is about 28... All nurses are under 35. I working in surgical trauma ICU

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Average 40s-50s on my unit. I'm one of the young 'ens and I'm 35!

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