December Doldrums

[jnemartin]

Anyone else feeling December Doldrums? I am totally unmotivated and can only think about what I plan to do over winter break! I have a few projects to wrap up, and work can *always* be found, but I front loaded my year and now I feel like I'm just waiting for winter break - haha!

It also got me wondering if there is any research out there about the stresses of the school cycle.

[Farawyn]

I'm

Not

Motivated.

[GdBSN, RN]

I'm

Not

Motivated.

Ditto!

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

We have an extremely long stretch from January to spring break. Without snow days, we have months without a day off. That is our hard time.

[jnemartin, BSN, RN]

December is always the worst for me - we go on Thanksgiving break come back and count down begins for Xmas break in 3 weeks - I don't want to do anything during the 3 weeks between Thanksgiving and Xmas break.

Jan & Feb are also usually pretty slow for me - not in a student illness kind of way but with all the administrative stuff we are required to do - I have all of my administrative stuff done by December so Jan & Feb can have long, boring days at times. It will ramp back up with me at end of March when I start getting stuff ready for the next school year, kinder registration etc.

I'm in a similar situation - Spring semester I will be teaching sex ed for middle schoolers (only a few days over the course of the semester) and doing hearing screenings. Both of these pretty major tasks are basically ready to go, it's just a matter of doing it. So I'm anticipating that next semester will be slower than the craziness of fall immunization season. I also don't have any super complex students, just the typical asthma and a few DM1.

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

Isn't it funny how similar we all feel? I am finding myself very happy to get involved in Child Study Team meetings and whatnot now that my screenings are mostly completed (just data entry at this point, which... UGH) and I ALSO have a growing pile of filing that I just can't bring myself to get rid of! I would also like to completely re-organize the filing cabinets which have paperwork that is 20 years out-dated in some cases.... At least at my other job, when it's slow I'm allowed to watch netflix.... Here, that feels too scandalous...

[jnemartin, BSN, RN]

At least at my other job, when it's slow I'm allowed to watch netflix.... Here, that feels too scandalous...

This is my first SN job and at the beginning of the school year I was worried if listening to the radio was inappropriate (like pandora or NPR), and now I've loosened up. I haven't full on watched Netflix, but I do put on YouTube shows to watch/listen to while I'm filing or doing vax reports. :)

[jnemartin, BSN, RN]

Isn't it funny how similar we all feel?.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

I have a podcast with hundreds of episodes that I just started listening to that has no profanity and is actually a little educational (history-wise) that I will put on and knit during, but I have been dealing with post-herpetic neuralgia for the last 6 weeks and I am constantly needing to re-position myself, so the knitting hasn't been easy recently

[Eleven011]

I have pretty much checked out right now. I could finish up screenings, do filing, ect, but I don't. And I have 2 full weeks yet until break! Hopefully I'll have a bit more energy when we come back in January, because it will be 6 full weeks before we have a day off again!

[MrNurse(x2), ADN]

And I netflix and chill during my lunch :)

You do know what that means? Check Urban Dictionary.

[Eleven011]

You do know what that means? Check Urban Dictionary.

I did not know

[AdobeRN]

You do know what that means? Check Urban Dictionary.

LOL....well I learned something new. I thought it meant to literally watch movies and hangout - gah so dumb :)