Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

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Please list your experience or knowledge of specific nursing specialties that have minimum patient contact (code brown, c-dif, etc), and what specialty provides the best hours? For instance working in a hospital versus a clinic? Thanks.

Specializes in Emergency, ICU.
The OP's username is 'the rapist' spelled backwards.
Omg!!!

Edited after realizing therapist explanation..... Sorry OP.

My brain completely went to the rapist - I work with rape victims and know too much about predators.

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
My apologies OP when I couldn't read it forwards my brain figured out something else! Haha I literally did not see therapist, too many Law & Order's for this lady I guess... :)[/quote']

LOL...for me too...

Another aspect of nursing...Forensic Nursing. ;)

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
I think you missed the point. People aren't saying that nurses don't function well in non-direct patient care settings. But that it's unrealistic to go right into those settings directly from nursing school without doing at least a few years at the bedside. You don't get hired directly into management or insurance without the experienced gleaned at the bedside working with patients.

^THIS. :yes:

Most job postings require at LEAST 3-5 years experience before entering into a non-clinical setting.

It is like nails on a chalkboard to hear these questions...it makes me question if people are doing their due diligence before entering this business-and NOT looking into the "economic" aspect; but looking on job boards, volunteering, shadowing a nurse, not withstanding personal experience, either; and above ALL-checking their ATTITUDE prior to being a nurse.

There are people that don't believe that this is a profession; heck I've had to explain to someone who was orienting me who didn't believe he was doing "nursing" WHY it was nursing-he had less than a year experience and I had 8 years total (I include my years of being a LPN)...it's not all heart thumping excitement as well as sunshine and unicorns either.

OP, poop is the LEAST of what you need to tackle in this business...developing a practice, maintaing your own standards of practice consistently are the REAL challenges, IMHO...and spurning the attitude about "real nursing" in order to be success and content in this business. :blink:

I just don't think hospitals should manage bedside nursing to be such a miserable existence to where nurses want to run away. But then, I guess you're over a barrel to go thru this hell in order to do what you really want to do in nursing? I would love bedside if I wasn't over burdened and expected to do too many detailed tasks not related to hands on patient care. Also, nursing bedside is a hell of a lot different that it used to be with less resources. You really wonder why nurses want to run? and to add insult to injury question why and belittle them? But please continue to add, that's the reality of nursing today.... :\

To the OP....I understand where you are coming from....I think. This will probably rattle some people, but I made it through nursing school without ever wiping a butt. I have been an RN for a little under two years and guess what? Still no poop.

I love, love, love being a nurse. Love it. But, I have zero desire to help people meet their ADLs. I don't want to make sure their teeth are cleaned, they have had a BM or what-not. Sorry. I just don't. Doesn't mean I can't be a nurse, just means that I have to choose a setting in which those are not requirements.

I have been able to start a good career in outpatient procedure settings.....started as a new grad. I get to start IVs, educate patients, sedate and (my favorite) interact with them and try to make them comfortable and relieve some of their anxiety about their procedure. The patients are healthy enough to have their procedures in an outpatient setting. Not to say there aren't emergencies and some scary situations- because there are, but they are not a daily occurrence. It is a most excellent job and I am soooo lucky I can hardly believe it. Monday thru Friday day shift with no holidays. Obviously a position like this wouldn't be beneficial if you are looking at moving on to CRNA school, but otherwise I think it is just about perfect.

So, no, you don't necessarily have to "pay your dues" with poop and the like, just be willing to look outside of the hospital box. There are excellent opportunities....you just have to look a little!

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
To the OP....I understand where you are coming from....I think. This will probably rattle some people, but I made it through nursing school without ever wiping a butt. I have been an RN for a little under two years and guess what? Still no poop.

I love, love, love being a nurse. Love it. But, I have zero desire to help people meet their ADLs. I don't want to make sure their teeth are cleaned, they have had a BM or what-not. Sorry. I just don't. Doesn't mean I can't be a nurse, just means that I have to choose a setting in which those are not requirements.

I have been able to start a good career in outpatient procedure settings.....started as a new grad. I get to start IVs, educate patients, sedate and (my favorite) interact with them and try to make them comfortable and relieve some of their anxiety about their procedure. The patients are healthy enough to have their procedures in an outpatient setting. Not to say there aren't emergencies and some scary situations- because there are, but they are not a daily occurrence. It is a most excellent job and I am soooo lucky I can hardly believe it. Monday thru Friday day shift with no holidays. Obviously a position like this wouldn't be beneficial if you are looking at moving on to CRNA school, but otherwise I think it is just about perfect.

So, no, you don't necessarily have to "pay your dues" with poop and the like, just be willing to look outside of the hospital box. There are excellent opportunities....you just have to look a little!

You are very lucky....but you still have patient contact.....a lot of patient contact. Outpatient is a great place for great hours and great working conditions...that you have avoided poop......I applaud you!!! ((HUGS))
Specializes in PCCN.

Yes, very lucky- jobs like that are like winning the lottery, especially if this was obtained as a new grad.

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
People sYinf he or she needs experience first are correct but please spare the holier than thou pick another profession BS. It is well known nurses function well in a non-direct care setting such as management, insurance etc. Bedside nursing isn't everything, and many people rather enjoy their job then burn out.

What people get sick of are the "Can I become a nurse without, like, doing any of the, like, CRAPPY crap that nurses have to do? Can I avoid, like, those old silly sick people?AND POOP!? LOLOL!" posts. And the "I don't have a lick of experience in nursing, but I want to immediately start my nursing career as HNIC making $297,349.00 per year. AND NO POOP!?!" posts.

And dummies wonder why they're eaten.

Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

I don't understand why someone would go through all the trouble and pain that is nursing school and not want to, you know, do what a nurse does. I don't get it.

Those jobs that have "great hours" "minimal patient contact" and "no poop" usually go to those with experience (and rightfully so). After a couple of years in "the trenches", you will have more opportunities to work a desk job, perhaps for an insurance company or in a doctor's office. But the vast majority of nursing jobs include some dirty work. It's just the nature of the beast that is nursing.

Good luck!

Specializes in Rehab, Med-surg, Neuroscience.

There's lots of research, education, administraintion, management, social service, and government jobs that employ nurses. Unfornuately, most of them require maximum experience in the clinical setting, and advanced education, I believe.

It's very hard to find a job in nursing where you don't have to do the dirty work.

To the OP....I understand where you are coming from....I think. This will probably rattle some people, but I made it through nursing school without ever wiping a butt. I have been an RN for a little under two years and guess what? Still no poop.

How? Did you not have placements in rest homes or on a rehab ward or an acute medical ward?

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
I just don't think hospitals should manage bedside nursing to be such a miserable existence to where nurses want to run away. But then, I guess you're over a barrel to go thru this hell in order to do what you really want to do in nursing? I would love bedside if I wasn't over burdened and expected to do too many detailed tasks not related to hands on patient care. Also, nursing bedside is a hell of a lot different that it used to be with less resources. You really wonder why nurses want to run? and to add insult to injury question why and belittle them? But please continue to add, that's the reality of nursing today.... :\

The OP isn't a nurse that is burned out and looking to run. He's a dude that hasn't hit a lick in the hospital, because he hasn't even gotten his nursing degree yet.

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