Take your spouse to work day.

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Don't you wish there was a day such as "Take your spouse to work day" - or maybe there is one? Sometimes I get so mad at my hubby for not understanding how tired I am after work - in his understanding and- it is only from watching movies, where you see the nursing staff on the unit seatting, drinking coffe and holding babies with huge smiles on the face - my job is a piece of cake and I should be able to come home and go to the gym, cook, spend time with kids and him - venting now! I wish there was a way for them to see one day at our job. I am just wishfull thinking right now, and I'm sure I'm not alone here..... .:mad:

Specializes in Med/Surg.

Agreed! My husband is a computer programmer and comes home at the end of his 8 hour day and tells me how tired he is. I get off a 12 hour night shift and am bouncing off the walls with excitement. In part I'd like him to see how hard I work and that my job even though I enjoy it is hard. But also I'd really like him to be able to see the respect I get from my co-workers and patients and see that I can put "my girl panties on and deal with it" at work so he understands why sometimes I just don't want to at home. Overall I really love what I do and would love to be able to share that with him. Pretty sure he'd run the first time someone tried to throw up on him though. :rolleyes:

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Specializes in LTC, office.

My husband would :barf01:after the first abscess drainage or sebaceous cyst. :lol2:

He is a computer software guy and I know he has a stressful job and does come home tired. But, yes, it doesn't mean mine is a piece of cake!

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Srsly, I would love him to see what I go thru.

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On a similar yet different note (I'm not married), I'd like to take my sister with me...

She was complaining yesterday to me and asking me while I "still slept during the day since I've been working night shift for like a week now." I stared at her for a second and she's like "You sleep at work, right?"

...I'm an NAC at a LTC facility. Uh. No. We don't sleep. At all.

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On a similar yet different note (I'm not married), I'd like to take my sister with me...

She was complaining yesterday to me and asking me while I "still slept during the day since I've been working night shift for like a week now." I stared at her for a second and she's like "You sleep at work, right?"

...I'm an NAC at a LTC facility. Uh. No. We don't sleep. At all.

Oh my! This is too funny! :lol2:

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Specializes in LTC.

I would love to do this. I am still stuck working as an aide as grrr job market. I constantly hear things from my boyfriend about how much I make and how often I sleep too much.

He was really upset with me the other day when I didn't have sympathy when he started complaining about how at his new job he has to keep his cellphone locked up in a locker and how his boss gets on his case when he doesn't take his mandatory breaks on time.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i would love for my hubby to work a 12-hour night shift in the er with me... only problem is that he's a corrections officer and i definitely wouldn't want to shadow him for a day! :)

i think you might find it more interesting and enlightening than you thought. i surely did when i went on my jail tours!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

i found my husband at work -- seriously. we've worked in three icus in three hospitals together. he gets what i do and why i'm tired . . . but sometimes he whines about me not paying enough attention to him at home anyway. he'd been off work for three months with an illness and had enough energy to go to his martial arts classes, but not enough to have something for dinner when i got home. seriously?

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I would love to do this. I am still stuck working as an aide as grrr job market. I constantly hear things from my boyfriend about how much I make and how often I sleep too much.

He was really upset with me the other day when I didn't have sympathy when he started complaining about how at his new job he has to keep his cellphone locked up in a locker and how his boss gets on his case when he doesn't take his mandatory breaks on time.

I have a CNA friend who somehow finds time to text at her job...swing shift with like 30 pts on her own. I don't know how she does it. I'm noc shift and have 20 on my own and still don't have time to text chronically. I'll send my semi-boyfriend a text in the middle during my "lunch" (aka the lull) to let him know I'm okay, but nothing beyond that.

And what's a mandatory break...we really don't get those on nights, since there's like 56 residents and 3 NACs. Typically we still answer call-lights and chart once it hits midnight, 1AM - once we're done with our first round.

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