Re: Nurses with ADHD

[anniea]

Hello all, I am a nurse..for 26 plus years..first LPN then got my RN. I too have had more jobs than I can count. Night shift worked pretty good most of the time. I was day shift charge at a nurseing home for 4 years, I would come home and sleep for two hrs every nigt before dinner. I am working home health right now. It is low key, boring actually, but it is my favorite type of nursing. I am not getting paid nursing wages, but I can make the bills.

Looking back at all the kinds of nursing I have done, I can muli-task with the best of them, but its the sheer VOLUME we deal with that took a toll. It was a constant assault of noise, information, intercom pages, telephone, not to mention crabby aides and families.

I LOVE being a nurse, don’t give up. My thing is I never left til I was fired, and then that took a toll on my psyche too. I KNOW I am smart and a “good nurse”. Not picking up on inter-personal signals is difficult at times, as is remembering all the “stuff” I got done every day… every wk.

I too am in my 50s, sometimes I wish I had gone to get my advanced practice “license” as I am pretty sure I could have done it, but now is it worth the $$ and time.. I knew when I became a nurse I had found a home I would NEVER get bored with, and I haven’t..there is always something to learn or pass on.. I am looking to do more home health, and foot and nail care..and see what happens.. Don’t stop taking the medicine… it helps… Knowing what is the most critical things to get done of course..until it hits the fan and the “schedule” for the day goes out the window.. and remember…. nursing is a 24 hr job… where is it written we HAVE to get IT ALL done everyday?

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