I'm the insensitive husband. My wife is a nurse that works in the float pool. She spends a lot time working in behavioral health and the medical floors.
She has been working 3-4 16 hour shifts per 2 week pay period lately.
She feels that since she is working 16 hour shifts, and a nurse that I should be more appreciative.
I see things different than her. I wish I could 16 hour shifts and have more days off. I will 4 days off to her 8-9 days off per pay period. I work 80 hours per pay period and she works 60-70 hours. I wish I could do that.
She will also explain to me how hard nursing is. In my mind, that is what she enjoys and is good at. Most of her issues with being a nurse is dealing with other nurses. It has nothing to do with the work itself.
I basically came her to see if I could get a better understanding of how she feels. To hear from other nurses that have done the same thing and how their spouses were.
Please don't hold back. I want your real thoughts. If I mad you mad, then tell me.
And there are so many awesome male nurses here I don't want to go there.
Ever wondered why Doctors get along so well and for the most part you will never here of another Physician talking crap about their colleague? Its because the industry is ran mostly by men. When nursing is predominately ran by men things will get allot better for the profession.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I have made you upset, which I am sorry for. That was not my intent.
My wife does know about this post.
My wife does not want to go to counseling.
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I'm not upset, I've having a great day! I don't go to anonymous forums to talk about my husband, I talk to my husband. The issue is between you two so you two need to talk.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Ever wondered why Doctors get along so well and for the most part you will never here of another Physician talking crap about their colleague? Its because the industry is ran mostly by men. When nursing is predominately ran by men things will get allot better for the profession.
Ever wondered why Doctors get along so well and for the most part you will never here of another Physician talking crap about their colleague? Its because the industry is ran mostly by men. When nursing is predominately ran by men things will get allot better for the profession.
I am a nurse and the title means nothing but the fact that I have the privilege of serving MY community. I assume that most on this site are nurses and it just irritates me on how insensitive they are being to a guy who just wanted answers. We have all delt with family members and are trained on THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION. LETS ACT LIKE IT.
It it sounds like you are trying to communicate your frustration with people questioning your qualifications. What is bothering you the most about the conversation? How does it make you feel? On a scale of zero through 10, with 0 being happy and 10 being chased through the town with fire and pitchforks, how persecuted do you feel right now?
OP, not too many people understand how exhausting it is to not only physically work a 16 hour shift but also have to be emotionally invested in every second of it throughout your entire day.
I don't think that you have to care about whether or not your paperwork is alive at the end of the day or comfort the pencils and pens around it if it is not. I'm pretty sure that you get lunch breaks and bathroom breaks.
My husband works in an office. When he sits down at his computer after getting home I try not asking for anything at all. I'm not always successful because we are both exhausted and neither of us wants to do anything including cooking dinner or dishes or laundry. I'm glad he understands how exhausted I am, and I hope he knows that I know he's tired too.
I hope that you guys try giving each other a little credit. It goes a long way.
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I'm sorry, but that is a gross misrepresentation of relationships in nursing. Nurses are not people with a habit of latching on to losers. We are like every other red blooded human, we make bad decisions. Why? Because we are human. Hillary Clinton latched on to a cheating, lying, s. o. b. that just happens to play the saxophone pretty good and was twice President of America. This isn't a gender focused problem. It is a matter of perspective and preception.
Ever wondered why Doctors get along so well and for the most part you will never here of another Physician talking crap about their colleague? Its because the industry is ran mostly by men. When nursing is predominately ran by men things will get allot better for the profession.
Yes, men are better than women at everything except spelling, apparently.
Are you a nurse? You have a patient who is intubated on a ventilator, his spo2 is 70% on 100% FIO2. You tried increasing the PEEP but it caused his BP to plummet. He is in ARDS and has a dx of CHF and pneumonia. He is on a lasix drip and is on triple abx therapy and you just gave him a duoneb treatment, but his abg is getting worse. What do you expect the doctor to order next?
Only a small percentage of nurses take care of patients on ventilators and lasix drips. Who are you trying to impress anyway?
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I have made you upset, which I am sorry for. That was not my intent.
My wife does know about this post.
My wife does not want to go to counseling.
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