Re: Finding my "nitch" as a nurse.
I, too, am a gypsy in life. I like variety, and couldn't stay at any one place of employment longer than a couple years. I've been moved around all my life, and don't have a bone of stability in me. It makes it rough explaining why I move a lot, but it's who I am, what I like doing, and couldn't stand it if I couldn't move about when I feel like it.
Employers aren't so forgiving when it comes to interviewing "movers and shakers" like me, but I have to stay true to myself always.
I've worked in various areas of nursing, but mostly med/surg, or strictly post-op surgical units. I've worked with newborns, pediatrics for a year in a military hospital, prn float nurse between medical units, surgical units, and post-partum; worked a lot as a travel nurse, and agency nursing for the flexibility that I like having with my life. I like being able to control my own time instead of allowing someone else to tell me when I can or can't do something.
After 14 years of nursing I am changing jobs again. I began my medical career as an adrenaline junkie (paramedic), attended a community college for my ADN and my first nursing job was in med/surg then moved on to ICU then flight team within 4 years. Also I tried travel nurse in CCU, Neuro and Trauma. Now after 5 years of geriatrics as clinical coordinator and bedside nurse I am back to the hospital on a telemetry unit. Does anyone else change jobs as their interests wander? I just love the new challenges and new faces I encounter each time I move along my winding path.
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