Gaelic Lass

I believe as others that your job is what you make it. I have been a RN for 12 yrears and have worked in the ED, ICU, long term acute care, and have been a staff nurse and charge nurse. I have loved where I worked and not loved where I worked (intensely), but I have never not loved being a nurse. Nursing school was the hardest thing next to raising my child that I have ever done (I am a single mom). I have been a staff nurse and worked agency too. I am a charge nurse in a small surgery hospital in the PACU (recovery unit). The doctors, as a whole, respect us nurses and the different units work as a team, most of the time (LOL). I hope to retire from here. I am 51. The bottom line is if I can make a difference in someone's life it is worth it. I have been lucky enough to have seen that difference on a few occasions and am proud to have been given that opportunity. ROCK ON GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:redbeathe