When you graduate what part of nursing are you going into?

All of my past jobs have involved working with people who have disabilities, so I will most likely stay in that field. However, I think I might want to explore more options. I think when I finally get to clinicals I will get a better idea of what I want to do. Isn't that one of the great things about nursing? There are so many different options out there!

I will have to see how it unfolds, when I actually start nursing! I have background in a variety of medical fields, so I at least know what I think I don't want, or what I don't want to be part of in a medicalized institutional fashion. I am considering (for now) oncology and/or hospice. I expect it to be challenging and probably something I can't do year after year. I would really like to try to bring compassion, tenderness and dignity to those at the end of life. And to their families, too. I worry about having a bit of my heart torn out everyday, but I think I can tend to people in their dying, and be a comfort. We will see.

I am sure it is much easier to see people recover and move on, than to let go and surrender to death. Yet it is no less important. In fact, it is vitally important. Hopefully, I have it in me and can do it gracefully. Tending to the dying is an honor and such a different kind of responsibility than helping to heal. I am just not sure how much death I can take, or if I can fight the urge to "do something" to try to reverse the inevitable. I will have a lot to learn.

I will say that in nursing in general, I worry about the techno and the institutional aspects. I am curious how to blend the altruistic human aspect that draws me to nursing with all the other big business, bureaucratic, beeping, flashing light stuff. Its going to be a wild ride! No doubt I will learn a lot about me in the process.

I was told not to make a decision because I would change my mind after doing clinicals.

I have been throwing around a few things I am interested in.

I would love to work in peds or even maybe in a residential setting (group home, or school for the deaf).

General trauma

psych

Neuro

Ob

Domestic violence/rape nurse


End of life

My dream/plan is to go straight into the NICU, and maybe work PT or Per Diem in a nursing home.

However, I'm also going into clinicals with an open mind, because I'd like to have a few areas of interest when I graduate.

It makes me wonder if any nursing graduate goes straight into something they had hoped on? Not relating this specifically to you or NICU, but just in general. Seems many new grads end up on med/surg around here and then work into the positions they want.

I am just hoping that after all this I will even be able to get a job straight out of school! I worry that after all this talk of "nursing shortages" there will be a glut of new grads and no jobs in my area by the time I am done. I try not to think about it because I have so far to go yet, no point in freaking myself out!

I have always been drawn to L&D or NICU. I too believe this may change after doing clinicals, so I am definitely open minded about it. Hospice is also a wonderful aspect of nursing, not the fact that people are at the end of their life but that there are people out there to support them through that transition and to make sure they are comfortable and comforted.

We'll see but my heart tells me I want to either bring babies into this world or support those babies who came too soon or too sick.

I've been through CABG, so I really think I'd like to work in cardiac care. I can understand what the patients are going through so, hopefully, I'd be a supportive advocate as well as a capable nurse for them.

I love babies and children, so anything dealing with children or babies would be right up my alley. I've shadowed a couple of nurses on L&D floors and I loved it. I'm keeping my options open with either L&D, NICU, or Peds. I'm finishing up in A&P II, and I became quite fascinated with the cardiovascular system, so I'm also keeping Cardiac an open possibility! We'll just have to see!

i'd like to jump straight into icu/or/er. i hear its hard, but its happened.