If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?

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LydiaNN

2,756 Posts

Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

Even though I said (or hinted, at least, hee hee...) that I would quit my job, I didn't mean I wouldn't work at all. There are so many good causes in the world, and I'd love to have the time and money to support a few of the ones I believe in most passionately.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

I wouldnt work except for the hours and time i wanted. I wont say i would quit completely but i sure wouldnt take any more crap and i would make my own schedule.

kathye1350

6 Posts

Boy that's a hard one really! I would probably continue to work, but on a part time basis. You see, nursing is, aside from my children, my greatest passion. I love it and all that it entails. Besides, I would hate to think of waisting all the hours I put into school to do this. As I am a single mom of six children I would definately not work as much. But, I would certainly work because I would want my children above all to know that even though we had money, nothing in life comes easy or cheap, nothing worth having anyhow!!

Ginger35

164 Posts

Hummmm....

After the funds were transferred into my account(s)....I would do whole rip up the license and dance on it thing and call in sick - absolutely!!!

Then to keep busy after family and friends were taken care of:

Lots of travel!!!

I'm sure we would not get bored finding something to do (other than nursing in my case)

Specializes in NA, Stepdown, L&D, Trauma ICU, ER.

I might, if I won enough that I could buy a new computer charting system. Our hospital unrolled Epic in Oct, and it's harder now than it was the first week we were live. It doesn't integrate into the system we already have for fetal monitoring, so we're supposed to be charting a lot of info in both systems. Order entry is a nightmare, as is entering anything else into epic. TPTB said it was a very user friendly system, and had gotten rave reviews from the other hospitals it was in. Come to find out, the only other hospital using it the way we do has 100 beds. We're a 700+ bed level 1 trauma with a top level NICU. Kinda like comparing apples and oranges for functionality...

So, yeah... if I had enough money to get a better computer system, I'd keep working at my hospital. If not, I might go PRN at a different network, depends on how much I won

Rnandsoccermom

172 Posts

I would go per diem and finally speak up, and say all of the things I've wanted to but haven't for fear of losing my job. Not personal attacks but how I REALLY feel about how the facility is run.

Then when they finally got tired of me and fired me I would go work part-time at a MD office, or a book store.

Specializes in ER/ ICU.

I would NEVER work another day in my life. I would probably volunteer at an animal shelter.

ONSnrs

184 Posts

Specializes in oncology.
I don't play the lottery.

If I won real big, I would quit med surg. Get my MSN and teach part time.

Yes, brilliant, I will be in class with you Tweety, getting my MSN and teaching part time that would be very rewarding and much less stressfull.

SmilingBluEyes

20,964 Posts

Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Nope.

I would spend my time volunteering overseas and here in the USA doing the most good for those who most need it. I love being a nurse-----that is, without all the BS that is required to please the State, JCAHO and beancounters, who make so many counter-intuitive decisions that make doing my job harder and less pleasant each year that goes by.

skittlebear

408 Posts

I would work about once every month...just so I could see the patients I work with (long term care) and catch up on all my coworkers lives. I would spend the majority of my time going back to school.

Specializes in NICU.

I would NEVER quit my job. I would go part-time, continue education, keep volunteering, but NEVER quit my job!

grandee3

283 Posts

Specializes in Tele, Acute.

Crazy, but I would not quit nursing. I would open an agency or some kind of private duty service for pt's not covered by insurance in the home setting. I would take pledges and challenge other companies to match my $$$$.

Fees would be minimual.

I think I would start with ALS pts. I have a nephew with ALS (42yo) wife and 2 teens. We all take turns sitting with him. I lived across the street from him but we both got flooded by Katrina.

There are times when his wife needs a break. He had hospice for about 2 years but they pullled out because he was stable.

Most of my $$$$$$ would be donations to MDA and families suffering from this devistating disease.

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