Nurse vs. Mummy

Nurse vs. Mummy

This week saw my return to work.  If you are new to my blog, I am a nurse.  It’s been great to get back into it, in fact it feels like I haven’t been gone at all (other than the fact everything has moved).  Returning from maternity leave is like seeing work through new eyes.  I felt like I was instantly comparing my work with my home life.  Obviously nursing is a caring profession – as is being a mother.  But I never really thought how similar the two really were.  I thought I would write about the similarities!

Bath time vs. Shower time

Oliver is a notorious splasher.  Bath time makes me feel like I’ve been down splash mountain, in fact I probably wouldn’t be as wet doing that!  When I’m helping a patient have a shower, I usually end up feeling like I’ve had a shower too.  There’s no way to avoid getting wet, the plastic apron does nothing to protect us from the splash in the shower room.

So in both scenarios I end up wet!

Nappy’s vs. incontinence pads

Well these two are pretty similar really.  Ones just a mini version of the other!

Calpol vs. drug round

Calpol is a difficult one in our house.  Some days Oliver will glug it and then sit pointing at the bottle for more.  Other days he will wiggle himself as far away from the syringe as he can!  At work, the drug round can see you one round they will happily take their medication, and a few hours later they point blank refuse it, for no rhyme nor reason.  Both times I am having to try and coax them into having their medication!

Walker vs. zimmer frame

In both my home and work life I’m trying to help people to walk and try and prevent them from falling.  Oliver is probably the more active out of the two, he speeds off with his walker.  Most of the patients I have walk at about a fifth of his pace!

Sleep vs. well..erm sleep!

This is probably one that’s more true for the earlier days.  Oliver spent plenty of time asleep during the day.  So do plenty of patients (I don’t blame them, if I was sat by my bed all day I would get in for a cheeky snooze as well!).  Their night sleep is disrupted, they wake through the night, much like a baby!

Has anyone else gone back to work and drawn similarities between their work and home lives?

 

 

 photo signature_zpsxzjvt5vk.png
Follow:
Share:

5 Comments

  1. March 3, 2017 / 9:27 pm

    I’m so sad that the sexy shoes didn’t make an appearance in this post!!

    • March 3, 2017 / 9:30 pm

      They aren’t ever getting a feature on here!! Hehe

  2. March 5, 2017 / 10:29 am

    Great post One of my jobs involves working with teenagers and I constantly compare their behaviour to toddlers… #fortheloveofBLOG

  3. March 8, 2017 / 5:26 pm

    Congrats on returning to work and I hope it’s going well for you. I really like the style of your post, comparing to work to life with a child. Thanks for linking up at #fortheloveofBLOG. Claire x

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badge

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.