Nurse Working New Year’s Eve just another Day in the neighborhood

I may not be at Times Square to watch the New York Event fireworks and parade, but all is well and merry

Nurse Working New Year’s Eve

Nurse Working New Year’s Eve just another Day! You fear death stare. Never ask a nurse for her Thanksgiving turkey recipe. Or where she will be watching the New Year Eve fireworks. For these Santa’s of healthcare the next most important thing after their patients. Is not their uniforms or paperwork, it is time off! It is only now, when some gas pumps and stores have started operating three hundred and sixty-five  days a year and twenty-four hour seven round the clock. That they have joined a nurse’s ranks of nocturnal and open-on-all-public-holidays service.Nurse Working New Year's Eve just another Day in the neighborhood

 

Nurse Working New Year’s Eve just another Day in the neighborhood.

Being a registered nurse who will be on duty this New Year’s Eve and day, I think I might need a CLONE to be at the hospital and take the temperature and pulse readings, while my body double revels at the epic Time Square NYE Big Ball Drop. Put a halt to your thoughts if I have made you believe that I don’t have a family at home, or that I really need to work to earn; when in nursing, scheduling your time off around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year may become a nightmare when everybody and I mean everybody, wants these days off.

If you think you deserve it off because you have kids, your chances may still be slim as there may be fifty other nurses who left their babies crying at home!

” nurse who will be on duty working New Year’s Eve may need a CLONE”

While others may be promising to achieve a size zero this coming year, my New Year resolution would be to never diet. Chances are I may be lying unconscious on the bed next to my patient’s siping on glucose after a twenty hour shift…Just kidding!

Nurse Working New Year’s Eve just another Day

I may not be at Times Square to watch the New York Event fireworks and parade, but all is well and merry as long as I can watch the Big Ball Drop on television with the kids in the unit.  While having our own festivity with my coworkers eating Bonbon’s our New Year’s celebration. What will you be working New Years Eve?

30 Comments

  1. That’s hard.
    And it’s not “just” that you are working on the holidays, weekends and overnight shifts, but for many such workers – nurses and doctors, policemen, EMT’s and other service-related professionals – those shifts are ugly. The emergencies are worse and more heartbreaking, somehow, because it’s a holiday. They see more drunk driving and holiday stress-induced domestic violence in addition to the “ordinary” crises, fires, accidents, crimes and violence.
    And it’s hard for your family, too, as well as families of those others and military families. Our own family has all of those careers, so we are always juggling schedules to find a day for celebrating Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. I wish there was a national “Holiday Workers” holiday! 🙂
    So I hope your New Year’s Eve shift isn’t too hard. I am sure you will be a blessing to those who need you that night and all those holidays you would rather spend with your own family.

    • You are right Cathe,

      Holidays are supposed to be with family at home for all medical personnel and police we are out on the frontline for some it causes great sadness. I try to start early preparing my family reminding them about my schedule. It doesn’t get easier. But we work on it and most of the time without my present. What I don’t like most I am not able to leave the building on time. I have to think I am making a difference patient need me.

  2. I am not a nurse, but for 16 years I had a job where my only day (or evening, or weekend day) off in December was Christmas Day itself. At least I had that day to be with my wife and four kids. Many nurses and others in public service don’t even get that.
    I now work in healthcare administration and am very aware of nurses’ schedules. They are under appreciated and over worked. Of course it is not just the winter holiday seasons where they sacrifice, but it happens all year long. I commend you and all of the nurses who work so hard and long.

    • Josh I really appreciate this comment. Nurses are always on the front line and in return we do not get the amount of recognition or respect that we should. It takes a special person to be a nurse, and that is why I continue to make everyone aware of what we do. We are celebrated once a year.

  3. I know A Nurse an angel walking this earth for that sick invalid child, man, woman elderly patient. Irrespective of the fact that it’s a choice to be a nurse, you are human too and have family. I wish you every blessing in the new year!

  4. I worked as a CENA for a while, and it is incredible how hard nurses work but how little recognition they get. They are there rain or shine, holiday or not, when we need it most. Nurse are every day heroes.

  5. I don’t know what it’s like. But I do know how it feels to work on Holidays. It takes some getting used to. And you’ll miss your family more during these days.

  6. I used to work at Disneyland which is also open 365 days a year so this year I am thrilled to be off since I have changed careers. I do appreciate everyone who has to work and can fully understand what that feels like

  7. love the humour in this posts! kudos to all the nurses and doctors that will be working on NYE – NY day! hope you guys will have a blessed 2016 and in the future for saving lives! Meanwhile my family and I will be walking in the street somewhere to watch the fireworks in dubai highest tower in the world and then go back home and eat, its our first NY in Dubai.

  8. My best friend is a nurse and cannot attend several parties with me due to her shifts. She always has such a great spirit about working on holidays though and her children are old enough to understand they may not do the same things on the same days as others. Thank you for your dedication to the medical field.

  9. My SIL works all the holidays too, and it’s hard but harder still on the families who have loved ones in there. God Bless the hospital folk!

  10. I feel you Patrice. I am also a healthcare provider (oh well, my day job) and I lost count of all the special holidays like Christmas and New Years that I missed with my family. It is a huge sacrifice but thinking about all the people we have helped along the way makes it all worth it.

  11. I feel you, Patrice. I have two cousins who are nurses too and both had to work on New Year’s Eve. You guys are a blessing to the medical profession and I am sure your family understands your sacrifice and loves you more than anything else in the world.

  12. Visiting from the Meet and Greet. Tried to subscribe, but got a page that said “mailing list is not active at this time”?

    I love your blog’s premise. The first time I remember calling myself ‘depressed’, I was a teenager. It’s been that way ever since. One day at a time.

    Whether for the nurses who helped during my three difficult pregnancies (starting at the age of 35), the nurses who cared for the residents at a facility for adults with MR/DD were I worked, or the profession in general…I have loads of respect!

    • LuAnn Braley,Welcome and I am sorry you did not get to subscribe. Hope you will return for more information. Caring for MR/DD only a special person and you are one. Have to have patience Just like a nurse. Thank you for your support.

  13. I usually end up traveling on Holidays so I can visit all the relatives I don’t see the rest of the year. I’ve had times in the past, when I was the one working on the major holidays. I’m not in healthcare but I got a call one Christmas eve from a neighbor who had gone into labor and couldn’t get her boyfriend. So I left work early, took her to the hospital and ended up as her labor coach. I got home just in time to open presents because I’d managed to get the night shift so as to be home that morning.

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