I spent 25 years working the night shift as a RN. Nursing is the career I wanted and it served me well. There are so many things I want to say when friends and acquantances advise me-for financial reasons-to work as a nurse again. I do struggle financially. It is a challenge to live on less money than the deductions on the checks I brought home as a nurse. The emotional, physical and spiritual toll is so unbelieveable and overwhelming you will never hear a RN discuss it-unless you are a RN. In fact nursing was not particularly encouraged as a career choice until salaries more than doubled almost over night some years ago.
Yesterday another RN friend passed from this world to the next. The timing it seems was her choice. I have lost more nursing friends than family, schoolmates and various acquantainces combined.
Years past I looked out patient windows to see the night sky. Tonight I am gonna be on a roof with friends watching the meteor shower as the Supermoon rises. I like to think the twinkling stars are happy lights of ones whose earthly light shines only now in our memory. Forever happy. Forever at peace.
Rock on you night nurses looking out patient windows. I know what you face and the courage it takes, On and on and so it goes.
kisses
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