Career advice

[NickRN]

Just after some advice. Im 2 years qualified, i have a year in an AMU and a year in A+e under my belt. Had to move to a new area because of my wifes job. There wasn’t much job choice and I couldnt find any acute so i got a job in the community for an MDT rehab team. So the pro’s are its good hours, flexible, no nights and im out and about. The job is fairly easy, not like district with a massive patient load, coming from ED its a doddle. Cons is I feel like im de skilling and its quite boring. Its therapy led so as nurses we dont have much input despite the normal skin and medication stuff. I do want to progress into management at some point and im just wondering whether my next few years would be better spent elsewhere. Theres a job come up in ITU but its still early days. Plus its back to shifts and nights. Am i wasting my time here? Would i better off going back into acute care. I dont feel like ive found my niche yet and have no idea what to do with my career. Thankyou for reading, any advice would be grand.

[skylark, BSN, RN]

On ‎9‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 6:27 PM, TheAngryMan said:

When it comes to rehab, I trust a physio far more than MDs or nurses. I worked as an MA in a pain clinic for years....the doc got people hooked on opiods and the physios got them off and out of pain.

My " experienced" Nursing professors have no clue about the Physiology of chronic pain as evidence by the wrong answers they gave me, but my 33 year old physical therapist literally wrote a book on it that they now use in pain medicine fellowships.

I find the more people talk *** about other professions, the less they know about thier own.

That might all be the case in the US, but in the UK we are not governed by big pharma, and doctors don't get people hooked on opioids.

They treat them appropriately, with medication always the last resort, when all other options have been tried.

Community MDTs are incredible, they draw on the skills of each member, and they work.

That said, nurses are not used to having physios as their managers, because nursing is a far broader discipline, and their holistic approach tend to make them the natural team leaders.