Nurses
I came across this story from ICU Nurse about the care of a dying patient. Please take a moment and read this beautifully written story, taken from just one shift in an ICU somewhere in this country.
Multiply that incident by thousands, and you can understand the degree of stress, and dedication required to do this nursing job day in day out!!!
Sometimes it is easy for a few of my readers to forget that this blog is dedicated to nurses. My focus and passion is to help nurses to improve their personal finances. Studies show that money problems are the number one concern of the majority of nurses.
Study after study show that stress is a significant cause of lost work time-and obviously stress from money problems plays a large part of that.
Some have asked me, why focus on nurses. The financial information you provide is true for all professions-personal finance is personal finance.
Well, I would answer that this way-”why are we drawn to different professions as a way to make a living?” ” Why do some become nurses, others a police officer or fireman?” “Why is one an accountant, and another a software coder?” “Why do some folks become wealthy and others stay broke?”
My answer is we are all human, with human foibles and varying personalities . We think differently.
Nurses, in general, think differently than most. They are usually giving people, and therefore don’t always pay attention to their own best interest.
As a physician I get to go to the hospital and deal with similar serious issues. But for the most part Docs are lucky. We get to breeze in and breeze out while the nurses have to “explain to me what he just said in English” when the family is shaking their head after we leave the bedside.
The nurses are the tip of the spear-so to speak.
So, if I can help nurses lives become easier, by helping them to understand how to take care of their money, then I feel all this time at the keyboard is worthwhile.
It is really satisfying to see a light of understanding hit someone who really had no clue-
- what the advantages of putting matching money into a retirement account.
- Or the magic of consistent investing and compound interest.
- The understanding that by changing their behavior towards money, they can make a lasting difference in their life and the lives of their children.
With all the hoopla over health care, and politics over the past 12 months, it is easy to forget there are real human beings, who dedicate their lives daily to give to others. I think continued references to the “broken health care system” makes those working in the trenchs feel, that their efforts are in vain or at least unappreciated.
So take a moment, if you run into a nurse, to thank them for their service. You never know when it might be you laying on that gurney, in a skimpy hospital gown, scared to death!!!!
So for those of you who don’t understand why all the nursing references here at The Millionaire Nurse Blog-get over it. And for you non-nurses who continue to read in-spite of my health care bent, then thanks for your patience and support.
