How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

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If you won a billion dollars today, how many hours per week would you work as a nurse?

nooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Zippety Doo-dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in acute care.

If I won the lottery today, I would still finish school and get my nursing degree....would I work as a nurse? I don't know honestly...maybe, for only a year, but only if I get into the specialty I am interested in.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

If I hit the lottery, I could still work as a nurse -- if I went overseas on missions. :) I'd love to do that.

I'd also love to start a program called "One More Nurse" in which units would be staffed with an "extra" nurse for a year, during which research would be done on outcomes and employee satisfaction r/t staffing ratios.

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Angie - That's a great idea and I wish you had a million dollars to do it!

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Well heck, if the gov't can give farmers $28/acre to plant corn....

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

a better question is:

how much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? how much would it take?

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Well, I would definitely finish school I would get experience, go back to school to be an nurse educator and then I would set up scholarships and endowments so that educators will get a better wage and students who really want to be nurses have the funds to go to school.

Kris

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Specializes in Adult Hematology/Oncology.

I agree, winning the lottery could open you up for lawsuits if the patients found out. I think I might take up teaching nursing school... might be fun to torture a few nursing students! ;) I like the idea about going on mission trips, too.

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Someone recommended I ask this question instead of my previous one. How much money would someone have to give you in order for you to quit nursing forever?

As for me, I would quit nursing forever for the low low price of $100,000.

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Specializes in ER.

Even if I didn't need the money I'd work, but I'd be per diem, and make my own schedule.

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Even if I didn't need the money I'd work, but I'd be per diem, and make my own schedule.

Are you saying that you would refuse to tear up your nursing license no matter how much money you were offered to do so?

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