Poll: Nurse for life or do you have an "after nursing plan"?

nurseangel78 · Feb 26, 2005

I think that I will continue to do nursing for the rest of my life here on earth, but I will continue to work part time, maybe full time, but not 12 hour shifts or longer because I don't want to get burned out by it.

Antikigirl, ASN, RN · Feb 26, 2005

I don't see myself doing this in my current job for more than 5 more years...it will drive me insane!

I am seirously looking into MRI tech or even other fields where I am in a cubical working no something and not looking at another human being for a few years..LOL! Ahhhhhhh a cubical (heck that would be bigger than the closet they gave us for a nursing office...I kid you not..it is an actual walk in closet...about two nurses can fit in there elbow to elbow...and this is where we much chart, work, report...uhhhhhggggggg!!!!!).

I have day dreamed of silly things..and on bad days feel like I should look into it..then reality hits me again..LOL. Radio broadcast journalist (health probably), garden design planner (lots of rich folks out here that love to have their gardens planned!), interior design consultant....

I even thought of going to school and go back to what I really wanted to do...vet! But another medical? NAAAAAAAA!

abundantjoy07, RN · Feb 26, 2005

I don't think I'll be anything after nursing. I would hate the idea of starting all over in school. Even if there was the remote possibility I wasn't in it forever I would stick to the medical field in some capacity.

My mom is a librarian in the school district and she gets 2 1/2 months of for the summer...a school nurse is a possibility:chuckle but that's still a nurse.:rotfl: The vacation is tempting....

grimmy, RN · Mar 11, 2005

oh, i am trying to decide how my nursing career will progress, so i'm not thinking about not being a nurse, just how will i keep learning. i have two options:

1) take advantage of free graduate school (i work for a teaching facility) and become an np

or

2) do some travel nursing and make some more dinero.

i'm still thinking on it, and not planning to do either one before 2007. just pondering.

Dixielee, BSN, RN · Mar 16, 2005

My goal is to get our farm up and running and work full time with my goats and chickens. I would love to sell goat milk and milk products. Make goat milk soap and sell it online. My husband is a retired police officer and is working on getting his knife making business up and running. Anything to be able to stay home more and enjoy life and get away from the physical and mental abuse you get as a nurse.

While nursing has worked out fairly well for me, I did not encourage my kids to go into nursing, and I would not do it if I had it to do over. I wish I had become a physical therapist instead of a nurse. Better hours, better clientelle, less stress, more money.......

allnurses Guide · Mar 16, 2005

Volunteer my time as a nurse in the mission field. Travel.

steph

prmenrs, RN · Mar 16, 2005

I graduated in 1968. I stayed at the 1st hosp that would hire me for 34 years. I retired, and I'm working 2-12hr shifts/week (per diem) at another hospital. I guess that would make me a lifer!

happy&healthy · Mar 16, 2005

My goal is to get our farm up and running and work full time with my goats and chickens. I would love to sell goat milk and milk products. Make goat milk soap and sell it online. My husband is a retired police officer and is working on getting his knife making business up and running. Anything to be able to stay home more and enjoy life and get away from the physical and mental abuse you get as a nurse.
While nursing has worked out fairly well for me, I did not encourage my kids to go into nursing, and I would not do it if I had it to do over. I wish I had become a physical therapist instead of a nurse. Better hours, better clientelle, less stress, more money.......

Dixielee : except for how far we live apart, our families might make good neighbors Goats are interestin' critters, to boot - LOL

shopgal, RN · Mar 16, 2005

I'm a lifer. Nothing else really interests me and there is no other profession with as many options. I come from a long line of nurses in my family and so, of course, that was the last thing that I wanted to be when I got out of high school. I wanted to be the different one. So, after majoring in about everything under the sun, from social work to chef, nothing fit and so I dropped out and went into the work force and the only job that I could get was as a CNA. I went back to school and now I'm a nurse! This just fits, I guess it's in my blood! :selfbonk:

mattsmom81 · Mar 16, 2005

I graduated in 1968. I stayed at the 1st hosp that would hire me for 34 years. I retired, and I'm working 2-12hr shifts/week (per diem) at another hospital. I guess that would make me a lifer!

Well you're not retired then really are you..you still work 2 12's a week...I'm confused. (??)

directcare4me · Mar 16, 2005

Like someone else said, nursing has worked out OK for me; haven't encouraged any family or friends to go into it, but wouldn't discourage them either. I am counting down the years until I can retire, at which point I hope to travel A LOT in my RV, take more pictures, write a book, maybe get certified in dog training. Will probably not have time to continue working as a nurse anywhere, hopefully won't have to.

Nurse Ratched, RN · Mar 16, 2005

I love nursing. I would be making a desperate "plan B" if I hadn't gotten out of the full-time hospital gig (actually, nursing itself was my life "plan B" lol.)