Alternative nursing positions

[UpdogRN]

I am seriously considering a job change, and I wanted to ask about the types of positions that are available. I am an RN since 2003, and I'm already ready to leave the hospital as well as my home health care position (I work per diem at both). While I enjoy many aspects of the job, I am finding it more and more difficult to work within the constraints of the actual healthcare system, as related to staffing, burnout, unrealistic expectations, the usual things that nurses face. I would like to do a job that I can see a positive benefit from the people I'm caring for, instead of feeling like a rancher with a cattle prod moving patients in and out of the hospital like a factory, or teaching and teaching and assessing and assessing and finding that my efforts many times seem futile and don't even matter. I have my BSN and would like to remain in patient care as much as I can, but I am thinking a change in environment from the traditional systems may be beneficial. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

[dishes, BSN, RN]

updogrn

Suggest you look in the stickys at the top of the career advice forum, the sticky entitled "Nursing career websites: discover types of nursing positions or career alternatives" may help you find the kind of work you are looking for.

A word of advice; it is better to make cautious career moves during a recession, maybe pursue a specialty certification or some other continuing education, this way, you will be ready to jump into a new area when the job market picks up.

regards

dishes