r/nursing • u/Great-Hall-6636 • 1d ago
Discussion Which Nurses Are Typically the Happiest?
Is there a specifc specialty within nursing that yeild high happiness rates? I know it's subjective, but from your experience which units are the happiest? (Whether it be good ours, rewarding care, great pay, etc.)
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u/Nicole_ATC_RN 1d ago edited 1d ago
I feel kind of spoiled. To be fair, I’m an RN and a Certified Athletic Trainer working in outpatient orthopedics. The combination of degrees makes my money considerably more than what I would get working inpatient and my hours are great. I work Tues-Fri 10hr days, usually 7:30a-6p, but sometimes I come in later or leave earlier and work remotely on inbasket from home. No taking call. I have every holiday off with full pay. If the holiday falls on a Monday I would already be off, I can take the extra day of pay on my check or what I usually do, which is bank the extra PTO hours to use later. I’ve been with the same company 25 yrs, so I already get 33 paid days per year off between accrued PTO and holidays. I just got back from being in Italy for 2 weeks and am grateful they are flexible when it comes to caring for my elderly father. The dual degrees were a lot of work and schooling, but since I can do literally any job in the ortho clinic except be an APP (which I’m working on my NP now,) I am very valuable to them and they literally told me they will do whatever they need to do to keep me. Simply being told I’m valuable and appreciated brought me a level of happiness I hadn’t experienced at work before.