If you love your job, what is your speciality?

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For those that just love your job and wake up happy to go to work, what is your speciality? Have long have you been in it? What other areas have you worked before you found your niche?

Specializes in L & D; Maternal/Child.

Labor and delivery! Love it!

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Specializes in NICU.
For those that just love your job and wake up happy to go to work, what is your specialty? Have long have you been in it? What other areas have you worked before you found your niche?

I have been a pediatric nurse for 34 1/2 years. I worked on the Medical floor and PICU for a total of 4 years, but when our hospital opened its NICU in March 1980, I was hooked.:) Each infant I cared for was incredibly precious, so tiny, and so perfect. I worked in our NICU for 30 years. I saw it expand from its initial 15 beds, with us doing all transports by ground, to its current 85+ Level IV NICU. We were involved in multiple national studies, such as using iNO for infants with severe PPHN, initiating ECMO on our unit, and head cooling for HIE.

Evidence based practice taught us that premature infants DO feel pain, and it must be controlled, at the risk of long-term psychological, physical, and behavioral problems after discharge. We learned that too much O2 and wild swings in PO2s was a risk factor for ROP.

Most importantly, we learned out how imperative it was that we included our babies' family in their day-to-day care and decision making process, and how we must always keep them updated on the progress of their infant. We humanized the babies for these parents when they couldn't be there.:redpinkhe I'd tell a parent that her child was sleeping and sucking on her pacifier. I told them when she smiled. And when a mother asked me to tell her daughter she loved her, I put her on hold, cleaned and brought the phone over to her babies' bedside, and let her tell her baby "Mommy and Daddy love you." I laughed and cried with my families, and celebrated each small victory. Each ounce gained, and each milestone passed.:nurse:

Due to health issues, I was forced out of my job in Nov. 2010. I have just been approved for SSD, but the nature of my physical limitations mean that I have to work from a wheelchair. A severe vestibular loss has been exacerbated by osteoarthritis, which has resulted in my having ever-increasing amount of titanium implants, screws, and pins in my joints.

I miss my babies and their families desperately. But while it lasted, it was a heck of a ride.:bby: :bby: :bby:

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care, Pre-Hospital,.

Emergency and EMS. The independent decision making, the variety and the collegiality (which leads to GREAT education) with all disciplines makes this a GREAT place for me

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Specializes in PICU.

i started in 2008 my job as rn i love my work as pediatric icu (picu) i love it.:) everyday iam going to work to see the progress of my work wait for the patient to be extubated or get better and see his/her beautiful smile and beautiful eyes saying thank you to me by looking at me.. i love my work i love to help the pediatric patient in icu or er i only do floated nurse in er ..

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Oncology/Infusion nursing, for almost 4 years now. I bounced around trying to find my niche for awhile, but now I LOVE LOVE LOVE going to work every day!

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I LOVE my community/public health job. I work for a non-profit as a RN case manager in a home-based teen parent program (pregnant or parenting). I knew before I went to nursing school that this was exactly what I wanted to do and that this was the agency for me. In nursing school, I kept telling my teachers I planned to be a public health nurse. I even did my preceptorship with this agency. (Before I was a nurse, I taught childbirth classes at this agency.) When I finished nursing school 4 years ago, they were still working on funding for the program so I worked in a peds clinic for a year. I have been at this job 3 years next week.

This job sounds absolutely fascinating! As a soon-to-be nursing student, your post really excites me and will serve as a reminder of all the great options I'll have career-wise, once I graduate - it'll definitely help on those really rough days I'm bound to have. Thanks for sharing and making a difference in the lives of these young women and their children!

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Specializes in hospice.
Hospice.... love, love, love it!!!

Big ditto! I work in a hospice house and do home visits when they need extra help. Love my coworkers, love my boss, love that a little kindness goes a LONG way, love that I've been there five years and still look forward to going to work.

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Specializes in Public Health Nurse.

What is informatics?

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I'm a NICU nurse-- it doesn't get any better!

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Specializes in RN CRRN.

Physical Rehab. Work with spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, amputees, strokes, Guillain Barre, who have Gtubes, NGtubes, trachs, drains, bone flaps missing, ostomies, intermittent caths, prosthetic training after amputations, wound care, wound vacs. So much more, sure we have 7 patients....and they are still pretty sick when we get them, but we often get to see them get much better or learn skills to be more independent! What better job is there...for me..none.

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Specializes in transport,forensics,ED.

Background in general ED, peds ED and adult ICU.

LOVE the diversity in Nursing.

I have been a Sexual/Physical Assault Nurse Examiner for 15 years and Love the autonomy and investigative nature. And the ability to be there in times of extreme crisis.

I am also a Pediatric Critical Care Transport RN. Ground and Rotor Wing. More reinforcement of autonomy and critical thinking. And more opportunity to make a difference in times of crisis.

LOVE both my jobs. Couldn't imagine not being a nurse!!!!!

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Specializes in Hospice, ONC, Tele, Med Surg, Endo/Output.

On call hospice nurse. I fix problems and put out fires. I get paid at my full rate whether i have one patient or up to four patients. I get paid at my full hourly wage just to sit and wait for a call to come in. I never work weekends and rarely have overtime. There can be long stretches of time between visits to go out to eat, shop, run errands, etc...Bonus: there are some evenings ( i do 2-10:30pm) in which i get no calls--can you believe it--get paid to do no work! I used to be a hospice RN case manager which was more involved and there were six non-stop visits all day with hardly any time for lunch and there were multiple meetings, more headaches, more interfacing with management and other staff (which i did not like). I have done hospice nursing about a year now. After 15 years as a floor nurse or charge nurse in acute care i have finally found my niche in hospice and i do love it because of the aforementioned perks of the job. I absolutely hated nursing and dreaded every single day i went to work when i was in acute care. Other jobs i've enjoyed as an RN were endoscopy and outpatient surgery. Other than that hospice is the best.

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