Areas of nursing that are new baby friendly

[aerorunner80, ADN, BSN, MSN, APRN]

I had a baby in February and just returned to work this week. I work in critical care and have been there for 6 years. I really want to switch to a different area but I'm not sure where to go. I want something that is going to be less stress than critical care. Ideally I would love to have weekends and holidays off. If I had to chose one of the two I would chose holidays off.

I'm looking for less stress and that is really the most important right now. I'm a much happier person and a better mom when I'm not a constant ball of stress.

Which areas of nursing fall within these parameters?

I've been looking into OR, PACU, case management, and office nursing.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Office nursing.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Ambulatory surgery center. Especially PACU, with your ICU background.

[OlivetheRN, ADN, BSN, RN]

Ambulatory surgery center. Especially PACU, with your ICU background.

I have to agree with this. The ambulatory surgery center will give you the weekends and holidays off and with your ICU background PACU would be a good fit. Even if you can't find an opening in an ambulatory surgery center, the PACU I was in, I only had to take weekend call once every 13 weeks and holiday call once a year, so it wasn't bad at all.

[CelticGoddess, BSN, RN]

I have a friend who works in endoscopy. She loves it. She works from 830a to 5pm, m-f, no holidays or weekends. She worked with me (Onc/Palliative/med-surg) and she was never happy, didn't have much confidence that she was a good nurse (she was). She really shines in endo. She tells me it's a lot less stressful. Check that out.

[aerorunner80, ADN, BSN, MSN, APRN]

Thanks for the ideas everyone!