Your FAVORITE job

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A light and happy thread to go with my lunch. :D What's your favorite nursing job been? You don't need to reveal where, just what.

My favorite was urgent care, although I was not an RN yet. Other than that, big hospital tele floor.

Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

I'd say the job I'm in right now is pretty awesome. I work in Clinical Informatics in a small team comprised of 5 people who are all totally cool and chilled. I have a lovely big desk in a private cubicle overlooking the woods, with a heated foot rest, free coffee all day, two enormous computer screens, a comfy reclining chair, high speed internet, and I listen to music streaming all day on Spotify all while earning a ton of money. I come in when I want, leave when I want and take a vacation day whenever I want. No holidays, no weekends and I get to work from home one day a week and I never have to drive in snow. It probably doesn't get better than this.

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I loved working private duty pediatric care :) It was my lowest paying nursing job but I loved my patients and families

I love my current job (I work as the nurse for a school district). I guess I just love children.

I loved long-term care (except the horrible resident to nurse ratios)

I enjoyed doing home health visits to seniors (skilled through Medicare and Advantage program through Medicaid). I loved the one-on-one time with my clients (but the agency I worked for had a scheduler with ZERO common sense who drove me crazy with the way she would schedule my visits....an example was I had 3 clients who lived in the same apartment complex in a town 40 miles away from our office. She would schedule them to be seen on different days not due to THEIR availability but because she couldn't seem to understand that seeing them on the same day made more sense than paying mileage 3 times!!)

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Private practice heme/oncology and outpatient infusion services. From chemo to IVIG to abx. I loved my patients and colleagues and they loved us. No/optional half shift weekends and no nights or holidays. I miss my favorite jobs everyday.

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I'd say the job I'm in right now is pretty awesome. I work in Clinical Informatics in a small team comprised of 5 people who are all totally cool and chilled. I have a lovely big desk in a private cubicle overlooking the woods, with a heated foot rest, free coffee all day, two enormous computer screens, a comfy reclining chair, high speed internet, and I listen to music streaming all day on Spotify all while earning a ton of money. I come in when I want, leave when I want and take a vacation day whenever I want. No holidays, no weekends and I get to work from home one day a week and I never have to drive in snow. It probably doesn't get better than this.

Where does one find an application for this magical occupation?

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Specializes in Corrections.

I love correctional nursing. I have been doing it since 2003. It is a unique field with its own challenges and issues.

And most of the time things are pretty low-key. But when things DO happen, they are always interesting!!!

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The best job i've had in my 10 years as a nurse was as a telehealth nurse. no direct patient care was involved. we saw all the patients via skype. Best job ever!!!

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

Palliative care/hospice, hands down. I have found it to be very rewarding for me personally and I feel like I actually make a difference. I didn't feel like that when I worked med/surg, tele or ortho. I spent 2.5 years working on an Onc/Palliative unit and enjoyed it. I am now a hospice case manager. It's my "dream job"

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I currently work acute dialysis and I love it! My first med/surge/onc job was great due to the people I worked with but we've all moved on to other places

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Specializes in Reproductive & Public Health.

Working at Planned Parenthood. For real, its like a dream come true. Love my patients, love my staff, love the work. I do full scope GYN (including ABs) with all sorts of opportunity to expand my practice (20 more colposcopies until i am signed off!). Super nice schedule, good benefits, lots of flexible PTO. Pay could be a little better but thats the nature of this kind of work.

I also moonlight as a triage CNM at a busy tetiary hospital. I like the adrenaline of inpatient work, and its nice to catch a baby now and then (i used to be a homebirth midwife). But my heart is in public health.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Corrections - don't have to kiss ass there.

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I currently work at an outpatient wound care clinic and I LOVE IT. The hours are great, M-F 8-4:30. Much less stress than med/surg, plus I love wound care. I could not be happier.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I absolutely love being an ICU nurse! I don't actually need to work, but I do because I love it so much.

I get to help pts and families through the worst experience of their lives.

Being a level 1 trauma center, we have a fair amount of preop organ donors; I always feel like I'm doing more than maintaining their labs and VS (which can be very unstable in a brain dead pt) -- I am caring for the recipients. Recently I was told by the OPO RN that his lungs were good. Lots of times they are too damaged to donate, so when I heard this I got down to brass tacks! I did oral care, ETT and subglottic suctioning, and repositioned q 1 hr. Those lungs WOULD stay pristine on my watch! :laugh: I later found out that the recipient had been on the transplant list for years!

Lots of our pts who had been transferred to LTACHs months ago, come back to thank us once they are able to. I remember one who was only minimally responsive when he left us. Months later he walked into our unit!

Sometimes the family elects for comfort care, and I get the privilege of providing that comfort.

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