Do you see yourself retiring from nursing, or will you change professions?

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  1. Do you see yourself retiring from nursing, or will you change professions?

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Do you see yourself retiring from nursing, or will you change professions?

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

I hope to retire from nursing. If I get sick of bedside nursing I have my PHN. I would eventually like to become a CNM which has been my ultimate goal before even starting nursing school. So hopefully I will retire as a CNM; which is still retiring as a nurse.:up:

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Specializes in Med Surg, Parish Nurse, Hospice.

I have been working as a nurse for the past 33 yrs, just turned 54. I would retire tomorrow if i could. Am working 2 -12 hr shifts per week now and is great. Money isn't always everything. I have seen many changes in nsg during my career and can't always go along with all of them. I see a change in the work ethic in general. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do anything else that will pay me. Hope my husband can keep working so I will have health insurance.

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Specializes in Stepdown/IMU, full-time Night shift charge.

Nursing is my third (or is it fourth?) career. Unless I go back to medical school at 55 (not likely) it will be my last. Just bury me with my stethimascope, my red pen, and a couple of vials of MSO4.

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Specializes in MDS/Office.

I want to get out of Nursing BEFORE I end up in a locked Dementia Unit....

:bugeyes: :bugeyes: :bugeyes: :bugeyes: :bugeyes:

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Never thought about the tombstone. Do you get a tombstone if you have an inurnment?

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I might be a youngest one in here (as I just entered my BSN program and am in my 20s), so my opinion might not be the same as others.

The main reason I love to be a nurse is because I want to help people, but I wouldn't be retired as a nurse. I have multiple dreams and goals. (helping people is not the only passion I have) And to me a career in nursing is a good start, but certainly it's not the ultimate goal in my life. Things might come and change, how about the next few years they approve and you can become a doctor someday with certain experiences in health field. Maybe some of us would say: "no doctor for me, I prefer to be a nurse only!" ;). yeah rite, but many people would like to advance their degree to the highest, wouldn't they?!. Or when I find a better and more meaningful way of helping people, I will move on!

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Specializes in Psych, EMS.

I start my doctorate in an unrelated field in the fall :). Nursing is a practical and temporary move for me.

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Specializes in Hospice, ER.

This is my 3rd career and this is it. However, I'll probably be doing some kind of home care on a case by case basis forever. I'll be 45 in November and don't want to change careers again. After many years in the Government and being a stay at home mom, I've had a great working life. But after this, I'm done.

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when I was in nursing school and doing so well I thought for sure this would be my career to retire from........but it hasn't turned out that way.....I'm still looking for that career....

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Interesting to see the responses as a sample of the workforce in general. Some are refugees (like myself) from other industries, some lifetime Nurses, and others who are simply unaware of their personal good fortune of having become a Nurse.

I showed up to work one day (late 80's), to find the gates of my employer (Major Airline) chained and locked, mobs of angry people outside, and police dressed in riot gear. Does anyone remember Gulf War One and it's effect on the economy and the transportation industry in general? (Too young perhaps?,... look it up!) Well,... it got Bush 41 "relieved of duty" and Clinton elected. Does all this sound vaguely familiar to current events perhaps?

To make a long story short, I found myself with a BS in Aeronautics, Commercial Pilot, Instructor, and Mechanic's Licenses, delivering PIZZA to make ends meet! After a fruitless worldwide attempt to remain in aviation, I jumped ship to health-care and have been a government sector (VA) ICU RN since 1994.

Am I going to retire as a Nurse??? (Rhetorical question).

I'll tell you what scares me,... take a good close look at who is bagging your groceries these days!

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Oh gosh my "bagger" yesterday and I got into a conversation about age. I have had both shoulders badly injured and he teases me about "I know, I know-not too heavy"! Anyway I asked him how old he was and he said he just turned 62. I inquired had he applied for early Social Security and he said yes he had to.

He had been a nuclear engineer, when all of a sudden they closed his section and voila' -no job. He did get a nice retirement, but also knew he'd never get another job at his age in that field.

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