Is there nursing after 50?

[Malt123]

Does being 50+ mean I have to quit nursing and go into poverty for the rest of my life or am I supossed to kill myself?

[Malt123]

the administor at this nursing home said "if you (meaning me) come here "they" will triple "their" salaries" not mine don't know who "they" are

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

I will never retire. I have figured it out that some day at work one of my coworkers will round a corner in the ER and just find me stretched out already dead.

[alintanurse]

Malt123--there is life after fifty,just read the thread "Mature nurses over fifty". Have you looked into telephonic case management?

[Malt123]

can't find the thread "Mature nurses over 50"

[Euskadi1946]

I got my ADN at 46 and worked as a floor nurse until my hip and my knee dictated otherwise and I'm now a desk jockey. For all of you nurses still out on the floor in your 40's and and 50+, I say more power to you all and God Bless. I loved floor nursing and miss my patients so much but there are other fields of nursing where you can also make a difference and my hip and my knee thank me immensey for choosing another field in nursing.

[Jonty, RN]

I hit 60 in 4 weeks time, been nursing since 1963, military, all sorts, mostly critical care and ED. I returned to nursing after Desert Storm, decided on one more adventure, so came to NC from the UK. I work in a 24 bed SICU( Neuro/Trauma/Surgery) in a Level 1 Trauma Center. The only difference between me and the youngsters is that they go to bed early. I work FT and I hope to take my CCRN test next month. Age is nothing to do with the years you live it's more a question of how you live your years!! My body ain't what it was but my brain is still keen and my thirst for knowledge has increased with each passing year.

To anyone who feels daunted by the young fogies, don't be, a lot of them talk the talk, but when the going gets rough, they don't always walk the walk.

[SarasotaRN2b]

Now I would think that the place that you might be found would be on the 18th hole!!!

Kris

I will never retire. I have figured it out that some day at work one of my coworkers will round a corner in the ER and just find me stretched out already dead.

[SarasotaRN2b]

I think that this is the exact reason "Is there nursing after 50?" why I am going into nursing instead of radiography. Nursing is so diverse and there are so many options, and bedside is not the only option. For a while I had considered radiography, but it is such a physical job and you are more limited than in nursing. If for some reason I injured myself as a rad tech, I could probably find myself totally disabled and not able to get back into the field. Plus with all the technological changes, if you are out for any significant period of time, it is like you have to go back to the beginning again. I feel that for nursing that if something happened, I can still work and use my nursing knowledge. JMHO.

Kris

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

Now I would think that the place that you might be found would be on the 18th hole!!!

Kris

Thats my Idea of the perfect way to go, as I walk off the 18th

[SarasotaRN2b]

I thought you would like that:rotfl: :chuckle

Kris

Thats my Idea of the perfect way to go, as I walk off the 18th

[stevierae]

\ like the agencies that advertise they have nurses making up to $100,000, yeah they have maybe one getting all the money.

Those are strike companies--they provide scabs, oh, I mean, warm bodies, to striking hospitals. As long as you are breathing and have an active license they will take you. I hate to recommend to anyone that they do strike nursing, but the strike nurses I have seen were either very greedy or in dire straits--i.e., facing homelessness due ot huge gambling debts, etc. and had little other choice.

[Malt123]

well I don't have a gambling problem, drinking or drug problem, actually I am straight as they come. my weekends consist of having my 3 & 8 year old grandchildren over, pop popcorn and watch movies this week end it was Roger Rabbit (3) times hehehe.:rotfl: