Hi, I turn 29 in August. I have over 6 to 8 year's experience in the hospital from EMS to the OR to ICU to L&D to Psych. Been doing psych for four years it's a job that utilizes my degree. I enjoy it, but definitely soul sucking and want to leabe the hospital setting. As a tech make about $23 to $25 am hour outside of the hospital make significantantly less. So my only option I feel is nursing, which would put a lot more knowledge to skills I already utilize: Creating care plans; documenting in patients; med education; various illnesses.
I am also seeking nursing as it is an opportunity to be stable. There are little job opportunities in my field, with no full time opportunities, and at risk every day to be the first one cut.
I am almost 30 and want to start a family. Hopefully should be in an associates program by 2017.
I have no desire to go back for my BSN. Probably find a RN to MSN online program can take at my own pace with work counting towards clinical hours. Not sure about going further than a MSN level. Maybe big maybe down the road will go for an APRN.
Just curious who does it partial for the money and stability?
Specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.
As we've oft-repeated in other threads, a lot of us got into this career to support our families on a solid middle class income. So far this year I've been able to:
1) pick up a 2nd job with new coworkers and slightly different job description
I like the work I do now (I'm in the OR) but I haven't always liked it. Floor nursing was not something I enjoyed at all. I liked interacting with patients, families and coworkers but I felt like I had far too little control over my environment. Juggling 4-6 patients was a lot on days or nights (the acuity of our unit was part of it too). Now I have one patient at a time. They're almost always under anesthesia and if they're not that's okay too. I think why I like the work I do now is that it's so specialized, and my coworkers definitely help make it enjoyable. That said, I am starting grad school this year. I know that someday my need to grow and learn may not be met by my current job, and I need to be prepared for that.
Like others, I wanted something fairly reliable and stable. My parents did not have that, and I'm trying very hard not to make the same mistakes. I love my parents, but I do feel that one should try to do a littler better than those who came before them.
I do it because I can work part-time and have healthcare benefits. If this were not the case, I would not be there. Part-time left me time to take on a ridiculously easy nursing side job so that I get to make more money with no stress. I make decent money all together.
I became a nurse for the money. I loved being a CNA, but I had a practically free education handed to me on a platter and a chance to make better money, so I wasn't going to pass it up... though sometimes I feel I sold my soul to the devil.
Wrench Party
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As we've oft-repeated in other threads, a lot of us got into this career to support our families on a solid middle class income. So far this year I've been able to:
1) pick up a 2nd job with new coworkers and slightly different job description
2) go on two trips
3) pay off half my student loan debt
4) finally looking at buying a nice truck