Any areas of nursing where the setting is more professional?

[misplaced1]

I am relatively new and discouraged. I am wondering if anyone can tell me where the more professional setting are in nursing? In nursing school most places were either run like sororities or mcdonald's, only the nurses go less respect. i have a part time thing thta I like but it will never be full time. I worked in very professional setting prior to coming to nursing and that is the type of setting I like. Would an insurance company perhaps be more professional ro will be all back biting and avon magazines there also?

[CASTLEGATES]

Work for the government. Places that give good benefits have better staff, less conflicts and more professionalism, less catty behavior.

[PurpleLVN]

Look into Medical Universities-I worked in research at a medical school, very professional. I even wore business attire or casual dress!!!

[LPNHTNCM]

I work for an ins co and the backstabbing and cattiness is FAR FAR FAR worse than any clinical setting I have ever worked in.

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

Work for a community, technical college, or university. Perhaps research. A clinic setting or insurance company or an outpatient setting.

[debsimb]

Stay in nursing and raise the bar!! don't feed into the behavior and eventually they will ignore you. think about the patients. The atmosphere will never change unless we change it!!

[misplaced1]

Bless you all for responding. I thought surely I would be flamed. I worked in research before but was younger then and wanted to stop and raise a family among other things. It was a very good fit though. I am a very girly girl but the girly stuff at work is hard for me. I am very business minded at work and dont like the fluff or the time wasting involved in seeing who can p*ss the farthest and trying to pull each other down by the hair that I see in nursing. I also have a lot of education and worked with some famous people prior to this which is something I never make known.

Invariably someone finds out and then I am a target. I have just wanted to be the new person and get the training and have my little job so that I can take care of my little one without the hassle of a "big" career. But I think that there is more jealously in this field,for God knows what reason, then I am going to be able to handle in a regular clinical setting.

Research really is where I fit and I know I probably need to go back to that. Havent been really wanting to have the big job again but I am getting to be at a loss of what to do. I dont think I am going to be accepted as a regular floor nurse. I started back for an NP and would be done in a year and half going part time cause I already have lots of credits but really I am wondering if this wil just be more of the same. I thought this wold be something I would do that would help people but I am starting to think, at what cost.

I fit in perfectly in my other positions. There was competition but it was in your face and based more on people trying to step over you to succeed which oddly was much easier to handle for me then people trying to step on me to be mean and for what I see as small gains. Especially since in this job real people can get hurt. I like the government recommendation. I have worked governement before and can get back in but really dont want to move although I know there are some really cool things I could get into there.

I was just looking to relax a little by having a regular job but maybe that is not my lot in life.

Thanks again.

[Riseupandnurse]

My first bachelor's degree was in sociology. Nurses act this way, IMHO, because they are an oppressed group. They are attacked from all sides and can't retaliate, reason, or get any relief from the stress. So they strike out in passive-aggressive, or just plain aggressive, lateral violence. That's why nothing ever changes. We'd rather stab each other in the back than stand together for our patients and our profession.

[Miss Chybil RN, BSN, RN]

I may be an idiot, but I think people get what they give. Sure, there are petty people out there, in every job and every profession. They don't tend to bother me much, because I don't bother with them. If you're focusing on your "little job," instead of worrying about who's reading an Avon magazine, they'll likely not bother you much either.

[PostOpPrincess, BSN, RN]

Work in an area that is extremely high adrenaline and requires massive critical thinking skills. Level 1 hospital, ER trauma team.

You don't have time to be "unprofessional."

too many lives at stake.

[misplaced1]

I have a close friend that works in the ER and loves her job. I have not seen myself in the ER because I have always had a dream to work with chronically ill patients, would love especially to work with kids. I am also very interested in my mind body stuff as in people are more suseptible to teaching when they actually care about themselves. A person that doesn't care about themselves is not likely to take the initiative to change their behavior. I always saw myself in a setting that related to this kind of stuff and a school (lots of kids) seemed a good starting point. Also have a few irons in the fire in this general direction but have been quite discouraged.

I am a person that likes to be busy and thinking and would prefer to be moving. I think that you may be right about a fast paced setting. I am amazed that I am thinking this because I never considered it partly due to my age but the fact is I dont like to sit down.

As an aside I could care less how many avon magazines someone wants to read as I am not expected to participate as I have found in the past I need to to fit in. I just want to work and be left alone unless its related to getting a job done.

[misplaced1]

I mean as long as I am not expected to participate in the avon parties.