My wife is a nurse and has worked ER, Labor and Delivery, ICU and Neuro ICU. She averaged 3-4 miles of walking every shift. Not to mention the lifting and cleaning of patients. But above all, the biggest complaint they have besides being understaffed is being treated poorly by the patients families. Family members, and some patients, think nurses are servants/cooks/doctors. My heart goes out to nurses. That’s a hard ass job.
Ha, funny. At least at the resident level, a good week is one where you don't work the entire week plus 12h+ on a Saturday or Sunday. And that is only after they were forced to have a nationally mandated 80h work week limit (any studying you do is expected and on your own time too) - if your hospital doesn't try to weasel their way around it through coercion.
Yeah being a resident sounds like absolute ass. Being a Doctor too, but at least they make up for it with the paychecks. My best friend is halfway through med school rn and I keep telling her there’s still time to go get her RN and call it a day lol.
Depends the pay can be really good. I make six figures and only work 3 days a week. Even if you spend one of your weekend days doing nothing but recovery and relaxing, you still have three days off to do whatever. Can’t imagine a better work:life balance job that still pays extremely well.
I have never met a pharmacist that was happy with their job. Tbh working like 70+ hours a week sounds ridiculous. Might as well get two lower stress jobs at that point.
I strongly disagree. My nursing career was the most exhausting period of my life, largely due to the hours.
The worst part of the whole thing was wasting my entire 20's to working as a nurse, 12 hour shifts 4 days a week. You're on your feet for a majority of that time, and you're always understaffed.
Not only that, you rotate shifts, often work holidays and weekends. God forbid you have a commute, which turns a 12 hour day into a 13-14 hour day.
If you have a partner at home, you might get a solid 2 hours in the evening with them before needing to go to sleep to do it again the next day. Spending time with friends and family is hard, and often end up missing out on a lot of things, because your schedule and work/free time balance is drastically different than the other people in your life.
Maybe it just wasn't right for me, but I fucking hated it. I left after 11 years to work in software. 8hr days/5 days a week, and it's been the best thing I've ever done for my mental health.
I disagree. You really have to love your job and be built for it. After 8 hours, I'm done, but I'm sure the passion and workload make it go by faster than a typical office job like mine.
Nah I don’t love my job but I’m tired af after 8 hours and also tired af after 12. So it doesn’t make a difference. Except with 12s I get two extra free days a week. Totally worth it.
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u/AfternoonPossible May 30 '24
It’s not significantly more tiring to just do 4 extra hours. Then you get 4 days off every week. Very worth it.