Retired Health Care Workers

The stories below are written by real retired health care workers who care to share their retirement experiences with readers. This site is all about Help & Be Helped... and many have done just that!

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Psychotherapist Retirements 
I would be interested in hearing stories about psychotherapists who have retired. Please share. Thank you. Linda

Day three! 
Have been an RN in nursing since 1971. Last 18 years as a university student health center care coordinator, which had become my identity until it …

Retired RN: depression 
I was an RN for almost 30 years, I retired a year ago. My wife said she would love to have me home. I also had medical problem that would have made me …

Retired Nurse 
I have been retired for 15 years after marrying my second husband. I was in the medical field and found it very rewarding. I was a traveling hospice …

Lost 
After working for 45 years in a high stress health care career I was asked to retire. I did have that idea on my mind but was vascilating and somewhat …

Retirement just another phase in life 
Here I am 62 years old last year and working as an RN for 37 years in the same Hospital system. Then, it hit me oh my gosh I am the oldest person here …

Healthcare Executive, suddenly retired... 
I am a health care executive who was let go after a buy out of the company, I had been with for 20 years. My reduction in force was cold and direct. "We …

Spring Makes Me Feel Alive 
I love Spring and even if it is snowing here in the bluffs of Mo. I feel refreshed. I just finished my Sunday Morning Show and exercise routine and I feel …

Retired and Loving it! 
Hi! I'm Alison, wife, mother, grandmother and now retired nurse! I worked with people with developmental disabilities as a coordinator of their medical …

from uncertainty to bliss  
My name is Rose Raintree, and I was an RN for 35 years. I raised my children as a single mother put myself through nursing school at the age of 32 and …

An old nurse wants to retire 
I have been a nurse all my working life. I am over retirement age and still work a few days a fortnight and want to stop because all the suffering I have …

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