Graduation Day — June 14, 1974. Retired — August 7, 2018
Nursing has been a great career for many years. During that time I worked in twelve different facilities in four provinces. I have worked in acute care, in critical care, in Kingston Penitentiary , in residential care and home health. Some jobs were stressful (any critical care job), some were emotionally draining (especially the Burn Unit), some where very busy (44 bed urology unit with multiple post-operative patients per day) and and working on a seventy-seven bed dementia unit had its own set of challenges.
For twenty-one of those years, I worked in a community hospital. I worked with many of the same staff members for many of those years, and got to know the patients and their families in a deeper way. It was a good place to be through the years when my children were growing up.
I ended my career in home health. It hadn’t been “my” plan to retire before my sixty-fifth birthday, but life sometimes unfolds with surprises. For the last few years, I had been working on a casual basis. On April 26 of this year, I left work early as I was feeling unwell— and have not returned since. It took a while to make the decision, but once I firmly decided to retire, I quickly transitioned into liking the idea.
It will be good to be able to focus on what I can do, instead of trying to return to a job that had become too challenging with my present health challenges. Throughout this time, God has been close and I feel Him leading me into a different tomorrow.
I am involved with my church, in helping my children and with pursing some hobbies. God’s plans for me will unfold for me as they should. There will be a life for me after nursing. It’s gonna be good!!
...all the days ordained for me were written in
your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139: 16b
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My retirement did not happen the way I had planned. It is a reminder to me that all our plans are DV (domini votum) translated as ‘the Lord willing’. Thanks for sharing.
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