What's it like having a flexible work schedule?

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What's it like being able to work whenever you want? I cannot wait to be a nurse. Working three days a week sounds like heaven. Although, knowing me, I'd most likely do tons of over time anyway lol. What do you like to do on your off days?

Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
It's the new admits at shift change.

It's how we get to smell like poo all day because of the gnarly code brown that happened at the start of shift.

It's smelling like bleach after cleaning up because that code brown was c. diff +

It's going 8-16 hours without peeing because the floor is that crazy.

It's all the fun educational stuff you have to do on your days off to be in compliance.

It's annual flu shots that make you feel like crap for 3 weeks after (you'll still get 2 colds in rapid succession so whatever).

It's, ummm, so this patient you've had for several shifts ends up with a + PPD.

It's radioactive diapers.

It's the smell of 80+ ketones in a urine dip.

It's throbbing feet at the end of each shift (and I worked for a well-known luxury brand known for it's high heels and my feet rarely hurt as bad).

It's bloodshot eyes because the air is so freakin dry!!!

It's sweating in PPE and wondering how on earth people working in Ebola-afflicted areas dealt with 100+ temps and PAPRs.

These things are soooooo glamorous. Totes.

And nursing school is all that and more plus additional psychological abuse.

This all of this!!!!! Where is the glamour? Oh yeah, it's in the radioactive diaper.

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Paragraphs please. They are your friend.

I was going to read this but gave up two sentences in.

Edit: I skimmed your post. Please don't have this attitude in nursing school or when you are a new nurse. It will get you nowhere. Also, you do realize that people can become a nurse in 1 year, right? I did that & didn't have to do any pre reqs.

Can't even bother to read a few paragraphs. Hmmmm. How'd you feel when you had to read text books every night lol?

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Folks. He is SIXTEEN!

Enough said. Let him dream his dream for a little while longer.

No. OP has asked the question and needs the answers. He has fantastic potential. AN needs to guide him.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Can't even bother to read a few paragraphs. Hmmmm. How'd you feel when you had to read text books every night lol?

There are no paragraphs. I can read paragraphs fine, when they are there.

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I think i'm just fine sticking with this site, all the way up until i'm a nurse and beyond that. Let's see if i'll be a negative nurses in 6 years haha. Seriously, i'm all for it. Staying with this site for years, learning what i can, getting accepted into nursing school, becoming a nurse, and coming back to provide positive advice for all the new comers, making sure they don't get turned a way. It'll be a nice thing. Knowing i had to go through what they went through, when i was 16 and am now a nurse. All of these threads i post will show as guide for them. I appreciate what you guy's are doing, and i really hope we can talk about this for years to come.

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There are no paragraphs. I can read paragraphs fine, when they are there.

Your right. I didn't put it into paragraphs. What i meant was, the huge wall of text equaled a few paragraphs lol. Sorry. I'll put it into paragraphs next time.

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I'm appreciating all of the negative and positive feedback i'm getting. All of you are helping me understand what nursing is all about, just like i'd asked for. Thanks. Maybe this way i'll have some sort of benefit over the other people in the future. Having done years of research before hand, hopefully i'll have an upper hand than the people going into college not knowing what they want to do, but choosing nursing because they feel they want to do it all of a sudden.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

OP,

It is good that you are thinking about your future. At your age, I was more or less clueless about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and I am still not quite sure what the next step is.

That being said, I suggest you keep your options open. Nursing wasn't even on the radar for me at sixteen. You are still young and have a lot of time to choose your field of study.

Best of luck!

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
This all of this!!!!! Where is the glamour? Oh yeah, it's in the radioactive diaper.

That's why it glows. :) :android:

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Can't even bother to read a few paragraphs. Hmmmm. How'd you feel when you had to read text books every night lol?

Not bad because you don't read the textbooks in nursing school unless you're into not learning anything. Also, what you write are not paragraphs. They are a mindless stream of information that is really unpleasant to look at. At least nursing school textbooks have modules and tables that break up the monotony.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Your right. I didn't put it into paragraphs. What i meant was, the huge wall of text equaled a few paragraphs lol. Sorry. I'll put it into paragraphs next time.

At least you take feedback and apply it.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
LOL i honestly do NOT understand why people assume someone is trolling once they are confronted with the truth and cold hard facts. Like honestly WHY ARE YOU DOING NURSING if it is soooo horrible! Aren't you just wasting your life? Save yourself the pain and misery and fine something you actually enjoy and have no problem what so ever with doing. I have my own reasons for wanting to be a nurse as does everyone else, some i have already explained. Someone needs to pay the bills? okay and? they resort to doing 4 years of schooling, hard exams, among other things, in order to pay the bills? LOL really? Why are all of you people focusing on all the negatives of nursing. You continue to do it and yet it still does not phase me. You should have done your research like me and knew what you were getting into before getting into it. Why does everything have to be about money to you guys? I already said i do not want to go into nursing for money. If i wanted money i would do something completely different. If i wanted money, i would still be wanting to go to school for becoming a neurosurgeon or starting my own business. If you do not like dealing with bodily fluids, then why in the world did you become a nurse? You should have known it came with the package of dealing with sick people. Like come on now man. Even i, a 16 year old already knows this. Thank god i'm not going to be oblivious to everything when i go into nursing. I can handle yelling, i have handled yelling for 16 years. Over time, i have learned to become stronger mentally. I'm not going to let someone yelling, dictate my career, bring me down, or keep me from doing what i believe i will be good at. There is yelling in every profession, and it certainly will not bother me because i am not weak minded. Yelling is a part of life. We need more nurses like me. No wonder hospitals need more nurses all around the country. People go into a profession thinking it'll be easy, completely oblivious to what their getting themselves into. It fascinates me how someone can do a job that entails dealing with sick people and helping them to feel better, yet their afraid of getting a little bodily fluid on them.

Listen. I am not trolling. I am simply wondering why people are giving nursing such a bad wrap yet they continue to spend years, decades even doing it. Like i said. I'd rather be doing a job i love, then a job i hate. All that negativity simply cannot be healthy for you.

l am sure there are plenty of other nurses who would like to beg to differ, i'm sure they love their job. Stuff that bothers someone else, such as bodily fluids or yelling, doesn't bother them because their main priority is helping people feel better.

Special Snowflake Syndrome at it's finest, everyone.

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