I have been an LPN since 2016. In October I will begin an LPN to RN bridge and then just keep on moving up the educational ladder until I get to where I want to be.
My husband has a business degree but is simply unhappy in his work (Restaurant General Management). The money is great but he is very unfulfilled and feels that he isn't making a difference in the world at all. He has started considering becoming and RN for many reasons including the schedule (he works up to 7 days a week, sometimes 15-16 hours a day currently). He is very detail oriented and precise in everything he does. He very much cares about others. He would definitely be a minority in the nursing field, which makes him a bit nervous, because he is an African American male. However, he said he is excited for the challenge and what he can do.
He applied to the same school as I am going to and has been accepted. We would be taking many of the same classes at the same time.... which is fine with us. We tried to look into other married couples that are both RN's and couldn't find much info. Does anyone have any insight on what it is like to go to nursing school together? We most likely wouldn't go into the same specialty, but could end up working for the same company. We are just trying to get a picture of what all this could look like.
I think it's nice that you're both going into nursing. I think outside of nursing and healthcare, few people know what it's like to be a nurse. It's nice to have someone close who understands the hardships you're going through as a nurse.
I can relate to this situation this is the same as my fiancé now. he’s a restaurant mgr as well and work five days a week and i only work 3 days a week 12hrs shift, we are expecting one August. He has a business degree but he is not liking Nursing hehhe i really wish he is a nurse too. I’m not a nurse yet but I just took my LVN exam last week.
Anywyas i am
also planning to get into the LVN to RN bridge once I give birth :)
Its really hard to know what is best for each one of us!To each is own.
I also have coworkers that are both RNs and married.They work at different dept and also same night shift. They seem really happy and they just bought a 900,000 house in the bay area.... It’s worth it if you really want to have a fulfilling job and also making a great money :)
I can relate to this situation this is the same as my fiancé now. he’s a restaurant mgr as well and work five days a week and i only work 3 days a week 12hrs shift, we are expecting one August. He has a business degree but he is not liking Nursing hehhe i really wish he is a nurse too. I’m not a nurse yet but I just took my LVN exam last week.
Anywyas i am
also planning to get into the LVN to RN bridge once I give birth :)
Its really hard to know what is best for each one of us!To each is own.
I also have coworkers that are both RNs and married.They work at different dept and also same night shift. They seem really happy and they just bought a 900,000 house in the bay area.... It’s worth it if you really want to have a fulfilling job and also making a great money :)
I've worked with couples on both end of the spectrum, good and bad. The only bad instances are when one is jealous and they work the same unit/shift then it's all chaos. ?
I think it would be cool to be able to speak to my SO about work and they don't look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language. The downside would be we wouldn't have time away from one another. I think all couples need "me time" for their own sanity. But maybe that's just me.
You're spot on. If only my wife wanted to be a nurse. She doesn't like people she says lol. As a middle age minority male I'm almost assured I'll be the unicorn in my cohort.
My hubby and I are nurses, we didn't go to school together. I went first and then he started right after I graduated. It nice to have a partner that truly understands the stress of a crazy shift and we always have great stories to share....lol We don't work in the same area I am in OB and he is on a stroke unit. I think you guys will be fine...hang on for the ride...nursing school is a challenge!
I have seen this go well and bad. Hopefully it will go well for you because both of you will be dealing with stress from the job and will need to be each other's ear, so you will need to be able to handle this well.
My significant other of 25 years and myself worked together on the same ICU unit for many years. Before that we owned a mortgage company together, worked in healthcare collections together, and did mortgage lead generation together. Indeed, in my adult life we have almost always worked together. There were good and bad aspects to it. Since our baseline is to argue a good deal of the time (it used to be 75% of the time and is now maybe 10% so it has gotten better over the years) this sometimes brought additional tension to our job/unit. She got even sicker of my constant daily refrain "I can't wait to move to Hawaii" something I brought up almost daily to patients and anyone else who would listen in my rather Asperger's like manner. Also, she is more organized, OCD, and gifted than myself so she could accomplish more giving 50% effort than I could giving 90% and she would often feel frustrated at my requests for assistance with my patients(she also had three years experience on me). It also frankly bothered me when I would see her "goofing around" with coworkers when I was "dying". I'm someone who likes to always be very early, not take a lunch, and then stay over "off the clock". She has a different attitude (and frankly the ability) to get far more done with less effort. Having said that it was nice to have someone to drive one home while I slept and someone to share breakfast after work with (I haven't gone to breakfast even one time in the four yeas since she became a PMHNP). I know another couple who really maximized this arrangement (both becoming RN's) by becoming travel nurses and working in California (they maintain a home in Florida). Their income went from around 110K (in Florida combined) to around 180K PLUS their housing is paid for by the travel company and they get to see the nation as a bonus. Also, we home-schooled our now 18 year old son while both working night shift. While we could have done many things better he did earn his Eagle Scout, got very high SAT's scores and plans to go to nursing school.
umbdude, MSN, APRN
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I think it's nice that you're both going into nursing. I think outside of nursing and healthcare, few people know what it's like to be a nurse. It's nice to have someone close who understands the hardships you're going through as a nurse.