A Pleasant Surprise - Page 2

catter70 · ‎10-11-2017

Congrats, @Goodie2shoes . That's certainly a milestone.

godi · ‎03-09-2010

Congratulations on such a wonderful achievement. And thank you for your caring and helping people at a time when they needed you most. ❤️👏👏🥳

Goldengate8361 · ‎01-27-2014

@Goodie2shoes Congratulations! I have enormous respect for nurses; thank you for your service over the years. If you retired in 2016, I'm curious why it took them 5 years to send you this certificate? I'm glad you got it, just the same. It is well deserved.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I congratulate you too for all those years of being a nurse!

Nurses are very special people.

Not everyone can do it.

And I'm glad you don't have to be a nurse now and can enjoy being retired!

My daughter was a nurse until illness. I think of course she was the best nurse ever!

But I am so glad too that she is spared being a nurse now. And she thinks if she had to do it over, she would do research, instead of icu, ER, hospice, urgent care and dr's ofc-she did all of those.

I can't imagine. I only wanted to give patients orange juice and a pillow being a unit clerk in a hospital unit long ago when AIDS was first in the news and everyone was terrified. That was enough of experience because even though sometimes life and death just being a unit clerk, and impossible to do all, you had to do it.

I'm glad you got that acknowledgement in the mail. that must have been heartwarming.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

Goodie2shoes · ‎04-30-2012

Thanks to each and every one of you for the congratulations and kind words. Thanks also to you who have family mbrs who have also served the profession. My heart goes out to the many nurses and doctors currently working under such stressfull conditions putting in long hours to save lives. They are the true heroes! They deserve an entire wall of certificates! Please keep them in your thoughts as well.

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

Congratulations on your golden anniversary! It's nice of them to notice.

My niece is in her 20's and just left her hospital-based nurse job to become a travel nurse. Travel nurse jobs are contract-based and pay very well - an article I read today said some are paid as much as or more than doctors. She will be rich, or ready to retire, by the time this is over.

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@ValuSkr

Yes the traveling nurses are making big $$$ in fact, the head nurse told us when spouse was hospitalized she'd been with this hospital 20 years slowly climbing the ladder.

She is divorced, has 2 grown children and has taken a position with traveling nurses. She told us she was funding her retirement based on her financial person advice: 1 year work, less hours = 1.5 years work more hours. She hopes to retire 2.9 years earlier than expected

Not bad if you ask me. My spouse has a visiting nurse (she's from Iowa) told us she works 3 days = 7 days pay.

She is signing on for another 6 months for the "bonus incentive".

Times have sure changed that's why there is a shortage in the hospitals -- greedy CEOs raking in big $$$ and the nurses/doctors working themselves into exhaustion.🙁

AngelPuppy1 · ‎03-13-2010

Congratulations! That is certainly something to be very, very proud of! What an achievement! You certainly deserve your retirement, and I hope you are able to enjoy a long health and happy one!!!!

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." - Steve Martin

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

@homedecor1 wrote:
@ValuSkr

Yes the traveling nurses are making big $$$ in fact, the head nurse told us when spouse was hospitalized she'd been with this hospital 20 years slowly climbing the ladder.

She is divorced, has 2 grown children and has taken a position with traveling nurses. She told us she was funding her retirement based on her financial person advice: 1 year work, less hours = 1.5 years work more hours. She hopes to retire 2.9 years earlier than expected

Not bad if you ask me. My spouse has a visiting nurse (she's from Iowa) told us she works 3 days = 7 days pay.
She is signing on for another 6 months for the "bonus incentive".

Times have sure changed that's why there is a shortage in the hospitals -- greedy CEOs raking in big $$$ and the nurses/doctors working themselves into exhaustion.🙁

So many people getting rich off the system while many others don't have, or can't afford, health insurance. It's not right. Improvements have been made in recent years (Affordable Care), though they vary by state .