What would you be in another life?

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Hey all,

So I'm sure there are probably some old threads about this, but what would you do if you hadn't gotten into nursing school, passed NCLEX, or not gotten that first job in the nursing field? What would your backup plan have been? Or what did you do before nursing? If you left nursing, why and what do you do now?

I'm just being curious, but I suppose I can start. If I hadn't gotten into nursing school, I would have become either a math teacher or gone into law and done family type stuff.

Can't wait to read what all you have to say!

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
My dream job would be getting paid to eat...but in all reality I'd like to have been a chiropractor if not for nursing

You would be stunned to know the number of chiropractors enrolled in nursing programs- just at my university we have over a dozen!

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what i would be in another life...is the...creator, and sole proprietor of google. 😂😂

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

Something in mass communications - I used to say radio personality but now I guess I would be a podcaster.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

Historian? maybe

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Im a student nurse, but if I had an option to choose a dream career it would be helping both animals and destitute children from all over the world. Plus, I also would love to be a full-time writer.

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You would be stunned to know the number of chiropractors enrolled in nursing programs- just at my university we have over a dozen!

That's crazy! We had one guy who had tons of back surgeries, but no chiropractors or anything like that. We only had one person (that I'm aware of) that had been an LPN before our BSN program. Everyone else either had no prior experience or was a CNA (either just before starting the program or at the beginning of the program is when most of us got jobs as CNA's and PCT's).

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Im a student nurse, but if I had an option to choose a dream career it would be helping both animals and destitute children from all over the world. Plus, I also would love to be a full-time writer.

My pre-nursing/pre-high school dream job was to become a lawyer to help kids who were stuck in bad situations at home or elsewhere. Now I'm glad I didn't go that route because it almost sounds like something a social worker would help with and I can't imagine doing that. I'd probably have been unhappy just about anywhere else and I'm glad I ended up a nurse. I also love that I'm one of the few on my unit that doesn't mind dealing with sputum and trachs because I've told almost all the night charge nurses that if we ever get a trach (or peds pt) I will gladly take them. lol sorry for the little side note.

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Don't regret going to nursing school at all, in fact nursing opened many closed doors for me. Left bedside, for management, left management for my own business ventures. Opened multiple businesses, some are very successful, some are long term retirement & steady growth. Started my own nursing agency & loving it. After gained capital invested in stocks, real estate, automotive trades, and the food industry. If it wasn't for nursing and hard work, I wouldn't be where I am today.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

If I were independently wealthy, with my nursing background, I would build a nursing facility that's filled with all the amenities of home, like the freedom to stroll around the grounds, keep pets, get up and go to bed when the *resident* chooses rather than the staff's convenience. It would be fully staffed and all rooms would be private, with private baths. No being hauled in a Hoyer lift to a cold shower room down the hall. The food would be cooked to resident tastes and served attractively. The halls would be decorated with beautiful plants and art. Residents with dementia would have a safe enclosed area to wander around without being chased indoors by harried CNAs. I'd have separate hospice rooms staffed by nurses specially trained to handle end-of-life issues. There would be several activity directors, some of whom would work nights which is when some residents are wide awake and need interaction. And of course, there would always be enough staff to be able to take time to actually listen to the residents and comfort them as needed, because even in a beautiful facility, it's still not *home* and people get lonely.

I can dream, can't I?

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If I were independently wealthy, with my nursing background, I would build a nursing facility that's filled with all the amenities of home, like the freedom to stroll around the grounds, keep pets, get up and go to bed when the *resident* chooses rather than the staff's convenience. It would be fully staffed and all rooms would be private, with private baths. No being hauled in a Hoyer lift to a cold shower room down the hall. The food would be cooked to resident tastes and served attractively. The halls would be decorated with beautiful plants and art. Residents with dementia would have a safe enclosed area to wander around without being chased indoors by harried CNAs. I'd have separate hospice rooms staffed by nurses specially trained to handle end-of-life issues. There would be several activity directors, some of whom would work nights which is when some residents are wide awake and need interaction. And of course, there would always be enough staff to be able to take time to actually listen to the residents and comfort them as needed, because even in a beautiful facility, it's still not *home* and people get lonely.

I can dream, can't I?

I would LOVE to run a facility like this as well. Unless I win a big Powerball jackpot it'll never be in my future though.

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I had also considered teaching or being an MD. I really wish I would win the lotto, but since that's unlikely for now I'll be in management. The dream my hubby and I have is to own our own restaurant some day.

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If I were independently wealthy, with my nursing background, I would build a nursing facility that's filled with all the amenities of home, like the freedom to stroll around the grounds, keep pets, get up and go to bed when the *resident* chooses rather than the staff's convenience. It would be fully staffed and all rooms would be private, with private baths. No being hauled in a Hoyer lift to a cold shower room down the hall. The food would be cooked to resident tastes and served attractively. The halls would be decorated with beautiful plants and art. Residents with dementia would have a safe enclosed area to wander around without being chased indoors by harried CNAs. I'd have separate hospice rooms staffed by nurses specially trained to handle end-of-life issues. There would be several activity directors, some of whom would work nights which is when some residents are wide awake and need interaction. And of course, there would always be enough staff to be able to take time to actually listen to the residents and comfort them as needed, because even in a beautiful facility, it's still not *home* and people get lonely.

I can dream, can't I?

I LOVE THIS! I was thinking "man if I ever end up in an assisted living facility, this would be it." I was talking to a guy who manages an assisted living facility and he said he always listens to his nurses instead of doing what he thinks sounds good because nurses know better. He says the only limits he sets are laws and facility rules from above him. He has no prior nursing experience and only knew one medicine because something with his facilities finances. Lol. I don't get how people remember random things like that.

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