I have retired from nursing, but nursing hasn't retired from me

摘要

Watch his urine output,' I said to a friend who was caring for a sick relative. Then I thought: 'Jane? y°u are no longer a nurse.' But as a nurse you cannot retire. They say old nurses never die, they simply lose their patients. Over the years, our job has shaped our character - only a nurse would go off a delicious wine when she finds it is called Black Stump. Only a nurse would respond to an unflushed toilet, not with an 'euwwww', but with a quick hydration assessment. So does retiring mean losing part of ourselves? We have all heard of FOMO (fear of missing out), but there are other psychological battles we have to deal with.