your nursing career dream

I'd be Brad Pitt's personal nurse ! haha If not that, I'd love to have been a movie set nurse. I'm happily married with three kids in the mid-west. Maybe someday, I can pursue it.

I have a pretty simple dream..
Graduate, pass NClex, get my license, work ICU for 2 or 3 years and then move into a surgery center OR

Get my lpn license, become a NP and move to Hollywood...Just kidding about the Hollywood, though....

Are you ready for this? Doing the same job I'm already doing, just doing it with a ratio of say three or four patients (ROFL), and doing it just whenever the mood struck me! Yep, I'd keep to surgical nursing, just in the fantasy land of this dream I'd show up only when I felt like it, LOL...

I am doing my dream job right now, I am a nurse practitioner and work for a brilliant surgeon. I also have some managerial and teaching responsibilites so I get a mix of patient care, advanced practice education and practice development.

I'm a student atm, which is why I am not doing my dream job by far.

That being said, I'm really not sure what my dream job would be. I am learning a lot, but mostly I am learning what I DONT want to do, more than what I do want to. (there are certain areas of nursing that I find myself unable to hold it together in and my heart breaks so much that I don't think I could do that as a job once school was over...but thats another subject)

I'm thinking that I would REALLY like to be either a school nurse, psychiatric NP or the one that seems more and more appealing to me the past few weeks... a nursing school instructor. I really like the combination of hours, continued if somewhat semi-detached hospital contact, and ability to guide and mold future generations of nurses. I often toyed with the idea of being a teacher but never could settle on an area of teaching that I was interested in enough to go to school for. Of course, I realize that in order to be a nurse-educator I need to first get some hands on practice, so thats a ways down the road.

On some days... (I'm having a VERY difficult time adjusting to the reality of how much death and pain and just... evil there is in the world atm...I'm told its normal for a new student)... I think maybe I would like to be a CRNA in an elective surgery outpatient center... like for breast augmentations etc. I like the idea of never sticking someone who didnt ask me to, seeing patients transform themselves as opposed to seeing them in pain due to tragedy and the general independence that a CRNA has.

thank you yes, I am still a student. I am very fortunate to have an incredibly supportive husband who tells me every day that all he wants out of this life is for me to be happy. Because of that, I think my chances to fulfill my dreams, whatever they end up being, are pretty good. Hopefully anyways

I should say that I did give him his dreams first, and so he is returning that favor so to speak, which is a bit more leverage to stay on track.

I hope my school gives us some sort of guidance like that as we leave, because they looked at me like I had 3 heads when I told them I had already applied to an LPN to RN transfer program.