Poll: Nurse and law enforcement couples

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  1. Nurses/future nurses, is your significant other law enforcement?

    • 94
      Yes, My significant other is
    • 155
      No, My significant other is not

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If you are a nurse, or a future nurse, is your spouse/significant other in law enforcement?

Just curious to see if this is a legit pattern or if I've just been noticing it more lately.

I am a nurse with a law enforcement spouse.

Or not. My dh and state trooper brother have both ticketed nurses who deserve it. Total myth that scrubs always get you out of a ticket.

Maybe they simply haven't encountered TheFlash yet, who has never gotten a ticket while in her scrubs.

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I agree with the ER perspective although I met my husband before I became a nurse. We meet a lot of officers in the ED which equals a lot of opportunities I suppose.

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I agree with the ER perspective although I met my husband before I became a nurse. We meet a lot of officers in the ED which equals a lot of opportunities I suppose.

I agree. Plus both are forms of public service and you have common experiences to bond over.

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Maybe some chose nursing because it offers job opportunities anywhere (in theory).

This is a part of why I decided to go into this field vs other healthcare field.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

When you think about it, nurses, police and fire-fighters see people and families in the worst situations, raw and unfiltered. Makes for a lot of 'war stories' to be traded. Who better to understand what we all go through, than another worker in the trenches? Who else would understand the sorrowful undercurrents of angst and hysterical laughter woven together in our working lives?

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No, he is an aircraft electrician

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He's a stay at home Dad. He has done a little of everything - his favorite things were welding because of the $$$ and cleaning because he's a fanatic about it - and was getting paid. :)

None of the nurses I work with are married to a police officer. I do a coworker who is dating her ex-brother-in-law who is a police officer. So is her past hubby that divored her when he found out about the affair. Luckily the brothers work in different towns, but aren't that far apart... I imagine family gatherings are eventful.

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He's a stay at home Dad. He has done a little of everything - his favorite things were welding because of the $$$ and cleaning because he's a fanatic about it - and was getting paid. :)

None of the nurses I work with are married to a police officer. I do a coworker who is dating her ex-brother-in-law who is a police officer. So is her past hubby that divored her when he found out about the affair. Luckily the brothers work in different towns, but aren't that far apart... I imagine family gatherings are eventful.

That is all kinds of eeeewwww.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

How many opportunities have you given them? I will never understand people who get pulled over time and time again.

Maybe they simply haven't encountered TheFlash yet, who has never gotten a ticket while in her scrubs.
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How many opportunities have you given them? I will never understand people who get pulled over time and time again.

I am not TheFlash, and I'm sure she was joking.

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Specializes in Behavioral Health.
How many opportunities have you given them? I will never understand people who get pulled over time and time again.

If you don't work in the ER, how else are you going to meet a police officer to marry? You gotta do what you gotta do.

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If you don't work in the ER, how else are you going to meet a police officer to marry? You gotta do what you gotta do.

Well, you can always work at Dunkin' Donuts and meet plenty of cops, but that's not as badass as being pulled over.

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