In this tough economic time I'm so grateful to have a full time job. However, there are just days like today I rather stay in bed. I often have to remind myself of the rewards of working and things I can do with the money I will make. Here are just a few things that gives me that extra motivation to get up and get ready for work:
1) I need to work to first pay my bills
2) I'm getting married in 6 months and have a TON of things to pay off for the wedding
3) There are so many new grads and experienced nurses without jobs
4) I actually like helping people
Okay, so what gives you that extra umph to roll out of bed and get to work?
Honestly, this is the best job I've ever had in my life. The only thing about work that irks me is some of my co-workers, but I go home after each shift and forget about them.
I get decent pay, my kids are grown, I'm single, I have no debt, and I get lots of time off if I want it for traveling. :)
Because I worked so hard to get here, I love being a nurse,I hate house chores,I love making a difference,I hate being bored,Its rewarding, disgusting, dramatic and sometimes I get to run in the hospital and pretend I'm on tv...
no matter how crazy it makes me, i can't think of another job i'd want to do right now.
i really do enjoy helping people to heal and learn about their health.
sometimes, people truly realize and appreciate all we do.
i still learn something new every day.
how may people get to say that they go to work every day and save lives?! :w00t:
my job isn't perfect, and i certainly have head-banging, hair-pulling, fall out on the floor and just want to die shifts. i spent my shifts last week keeping my post-cabg pt from crawling out of the bed and attempting to quiet his constant moaning and screaming, while also watching his neighbor down the hall who desperately needed an aicd/ppm (but is not cleared for surgery). i gave lots of drugs, i did plenty of patient and family teaching, i initiated a plethora of protocols. know what will stick with me from those shifts? when one patient's daughter hugged me and thanked me for being so patient with her confused father, and when the other pt thanked me for holding his hand when he was in respiratory distress and rt was running to get the vent for him.
that is what motivates me to get up and go to work every day.
I started taking classes at age 37 and graduated at age 41. My goal was for a better second income for my family with three young children. After that having been said, after being a nurse for 18 years it came down to dreading the getting up each morning when others were still sleeping, but once I was AT work, I was fine. I loved nursing. I think too, knowing that all the other staff had the same dread of the alarm clock, helped push me along. Once there, we'd all give ourselves a few minutes to "adjust" and then the day/evening/night went forward and things became okay. We worked for a wonderfully innovative hospital and our doctors were tops in their fields and the patients were in need of our specialized care. It wasn't all bad. When you can witness a "miracle" every month or so, it was all okay with the world again.
no matter how crazy it makes me, i can't think of another job i'd want to do right now.
i really do enjoy helping people to heal and learn about their health.
sometimes, people truly realize and appreciate all we do.
i still learn something new every day.
how may people get to say that they go to work every day and save lives?! :w00t:
yeah, that; it's hard or impossible to turn off feeling like a nurse , on an almost cellular level.
this being said;
-my motivation is, i need the health insurance. (i do like to eat and sleep under a roof with heat, too but un-subsidized health insurance would be our biggest expense)
-the mechanics of what it takes to get my bones out the door to go to work...first, everything is laid out before my shift so getting showered, dressed and fed is automatic and second, i always have a really gripping audiobook in progress that i only get to listen to going to or from work!
Many days? The money. Money for bills, money to buy a house, money to feed myself and my pets. When that doesn't work I think about how hard it is to get another job after being fired for no call no show or excessive call outs.Some days though I wake up thinking about how I like my patient population, like my coworkers,learn something new every day, am proud of the nurse I'm becoming,etc.I find the more OT I work the more I use threats of poverty, reposession, and eviction to get myself going:-/
Specializes in Surgical Specialty Clinic - Ambulatory Care.
1) I'm working towards being debt free.
2) I need health insurance.
I use to like people, that is why I went into nursing....I have mixed feelings about wanting to help others now and am more critical of people than I use to be before I became a nurse. Thus I have reduced my hours to part time and am working on getting a side job that does not involve caring for others. I'm proud to be a nurse, and I feel very good about my profession on the rare occasions that I actually get to help another grateful and loving human being.
Money for Bill because he keeps showing up every month and I don't even have to call him .
My son Motivates me to go to work everyday (I am his sole provider)
I am thankful to have a job to be able to pay the mortgage, the car payment and misc. bills. I am motivated to keep my house, and cars so that also motivates me to go to work everyday!
Specializes in 6 yrs LTC, 1 yr MedSurg, Wound Care.
1) Karma. I hope that one day when I get old, there will be someone to take care of me the way that I try to take care of my residents. 2) I love my co-workers. I work with some awesome people and I enjoy spending time with them, sharing the happiness of a resident overcoming a health problem, supporting each other during our own personal crisis or sharing in their excitement when something great happens. Plus, I don't want to be one of those people that call in all the time. I enjoy being dependable. 3) Helping my husband. He makes pretty decent money. We could probably survive on what he makes, but I hate seeing him stressed so if I can help, I will.
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NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN
3,959 Posts
Hope to be like you when I grow up.