Spouses in healthcare

[Trauma_drama14]

Just curious out there...

Anyone else out there who is married to a husband or a wife who is also in the medical field? My husband and I both are RNs working in the same hospital and have not met many other married couples or couples in serious relationships who are both in the medical field. I find that slightly surprising.

For those who are: what do you like about it? dislike about it? Are you both in the same field or different ones? If you are, are you in the same specialty?

I'm looking forward to hearing responses.

[BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN]

My hubby works in Radiology. I loved it when we worked nights together, someone to share the ride with! When we had kids we were able to go tI opposite shifts to avoid daycare. We worked different shifts up until a few years ago. I like being able to talk about political going ones at the hospital and asking him about certain things in his department. We know a lot of the same people and have very good friends who also have spouses at the hospital. We have a lot of married couples, they actually did a thing for our information page on hospital couples, that was fun!

The only thing we didn't like was when we each complained about each other's areas lol

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

My wife and I are both nurses. We work at different hospitals and will never work at the same one, by both our requests. We work very different areas ( trauma vs robotic surgical pts ) but we can relate to a lot of what drives us nuts at work and can sympathize easily.

[Chanceygrl]

My husband and I are RNs and work in the same hospital. We started out working together as CNAs and prior to specializing we worked Med/Surg together. I now work in the NICU and he works ICU. We both love it and when we were both full time we worked opposite so our kids didn't go to daycare. Advantages are that we can medical jargon at ease, share gross stories or sad ones, know that eachother have a high stress job and personal self care is a must.

Disadvantages are sometimes it gets a little boring, long hours at work means less time together, having kids now means one of us had to sacrifice our full time status because we never saw eachother.

[MissChloe]

Husband and I are both RNs on different cardiac floors in the same hospital (him tele, me single-stay unit which is like a CICU mostly). I love being able to talk shop when we are home. Sometimes we even end up caring for the same patients during different parts of their stays. We understand each other about the weird schedules, the stress, and so on. I love him being a nurse! The LOLs love him, too.