Feeling Lost!

[DarthIntravenous]

Started out at a big research/teaching hospital on a med-surg unit (I am still there almost 2 years). Doing my BSN online. 

Originally I had figured I really wanted to do ICU/ED/Flight type of thing. My mind is circling back to my pre-med in college days where I really wanted to do primary care. 

Everything is frozen because of COVID. I probably won't be able to get into ICU for another year but I'm getting really antsy. Likely could get a position in primary care to see if I like it enough to pursue FNP-- but if I don't like it then it feels like I would have to start all over again.

I'm decent at med-surg, some days I hate it but usually it's all good. Even though many other nurses have left-- there's always one more person in line for charge/preceptor type responsibilities... 

Just looking for what more experienced nurses think of how I'm feeling (as many have been here before surely).

 

Thanks for any input! BTW

Happy new year!

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

You say you "probably" won't get into an ICU, but have you applied? Are there networking opportunities in your facility that you could leverage? 

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

On 12/31/2020 at 3:44 PM, DarthIntravenous said:

I probably won't be able to get into ICU for another year but I'm getting really antsy.

Come to the Midwest, you can probably get an ICU pretty quickly.

[DarthIntravenous]

On 1/1/2021 at 5:02 PM, Pixie.RN said:

You say you "probably" won't get into an ICU, but have you applied? Are there networking opportunities in your facility that you could leverage? 

At my facility there is a unspoken freeze on transfers. Departments are only taking experienced nurses and some other exceptions (floor nurses not being one of the exceptions...).

@NICU Guy What region/state are you in? I have been thinking about midwest for awhile now.

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

16 hours ago, DarthIntravenous said:

What region/state are you in? I have been thinking about midwest for awhile now.

Louisville, Ky