Nursing-Social Life

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Has anyone ever moved to a new location for a job. I watched a nursing reality show years ago on MTV, and a common theme on the show highlighted how there were "cliques," is there some truth to this in the average nursing social lives? I guess my question is, do nurses truly hang out together, or do they come and go? All words are welcomed.

Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Oh yes, my coworkers ARE my social life. Many of us are close friends outside of work and are quite involved in each others lives.

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No, I assume an associate is just someone you're friendly with. These people I really got along with & had we met some other way I would hang out with them. I just prefer to keep my work & social life separate.

From experience that seems to be the best thing to do.

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Oh yes, my coworkers ARE my social life. Many of us are close friends outside of work and are quite involved in each others lives.

interesting.. does that truly work out w/o any drama? I am just basing this off a reality show I watched.. of course drama on tv is a good thing, but this doesn't happen in your circle?

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Every unit and workplace is different. It's as meaningless a question as "do office workers have cliques and socialize outside work." Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

I was very close with many of the people on my units in my school job as a tech and my new grad job (which I moved out of state to take). I was young and single and so were many of them, and we hung out together outside work and we are still friends (although I don't live near them anymore). In my subsequent jobs I've had the occasional friend where I spent time outside of work with them, but being older and married, I have a life and a family outside work, and while I like my coworkers, my life is not focused around work socially anymore.

I'm pretty confident that no job (or anything anywhere) is anything like MTV portrays it.

OK, thanks for sharing this!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
From experience that seems to be the best thing to do.

Don't get me wrong, the other women hung out together & other nurses do. I've had enough drama in my life & would like to keep my work place separate from my private life. I also don't want people at work to know every detail of my life.

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Don't get me wrong, the other women hung out together & other nurses do. I've had enough drama in my life & would like to keep my work place separate from my private life. I also don't want people at work to know every detail of my life.

I learned this when I disclosed my sexuality to coworkers.. From there I had to hear any and everything they had to say both negative and positive. I now realize how personal that is, and that it is not a work appropriate conversation to be had.

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
I decided to become an LVN because I wasn't sure if I really wanted to be a nurse so why waste time becoming an RN?

Are you saying that an LVN is not a nurse??

I can't agree.

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Are you saying that an LVN is not a nurse??

I can't agree.

I interpreted organizedchaos post as saying; when she was applying to nursing school, she wasn't sure if a career in nursing suited her and (prudently) she invested the least time and money in education, in case it didn't.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
interesting.. does that truly work out w/o any drama? I am just basing this off a reality show I watched.. of course drama on tv is a good thing, but this doesn't happen in your circle?[/quote

No drama. We are all good friends. We go to each other's birthday parties, weddings etc.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Are you saying that an LVN is not a nurse??

I can't agree.

Well you're disagreeing with yourself because you read too much into my post.

I did not know if I was interested in becoming a nurse. So instead of going to school for a long time in a 2-4 year program I became an LVN to see if I would like nursing. Does it really make sense to go to school for that long, waste that much money only in the end to find out you hate the career you've chosen?

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my workplace would fit right in with the MTV thing. Right now 4 of the "clique" are out of state celebrating one of their non hospital friend's bachelerette party on a nice beach somewhere out of state. They always post all their selfies on instagream and facebook. They go out locally to dinner and drinks, etc fairly regularly.

The old farts dont get invited( which is actually fine with me)

working with them as " associates" ( i always think an associate is just someone you work with- like a coworker at wal mart or something- " would an associate come to register 2" LOL ) well working with them as an associate is not easy as they have a different out look on patient care. I actually had one berate me for taking too much time with one pt- " hes a dnr anyway, dont waste so much time"

Ugh, maybe its a generation gap. But I'd say I have no social life, but the clique finds ways to have their social life ( id like to know how 4 of them all got the time off to travel??? I hear floor is running with 5and 29 pts and 1 tech today( stepdown /IMC floor) ) You can see where the priorities are on my floor.

So if you are in your late 20-s to 30-s , come on down. You'll get to have a social life here if that's what you want.

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my workplace would fit right in with the MTV thing. Right now 4 of the "clique" are out of state celebrating one of their non hospital friend's bachelerette party on a nice beach somewhere out of state. They always post all their selfies on instagream and facebook. They go out locally to dinner and drinks, etc fairly regularly.

The old farts dont get invited( which is actually fine with me)

working with them as " associates" ( i always think an associate is just someone you work with- like a coworker at wal mart or something- " would an associate come to register 2" LOL ) well working with them as an associate is not easy as they have a different out look on patient care. I actually had one berate me for taking too much time with one pt- " hes a dnr anyway, dont waste so much time"

Ugh, maybe its a generation gap. But I'd say I have no social life, but the clique finds ways to have their social life ( id like to know how 4 of them all got the time off to travel??? I hear floor is running with 5and 29 pts and 1 tech today( stepdown /IMC floor) ) You can see where the priorities are on my floor.

So if you are in your late 20-s to 30-s , come on down. You'll get to have a social life here if that's what you want.

Can I join you instead? I'm 28 & I couldn't imagine going out of state for a bachelorette party, let alone going to one at all.

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