Is clinic nursing a dirty job?

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Hello. I was curious as to whether clinic nursing is a dirty job. I have no issues with blood, but I'm wondering if any of you clinic nurses have to deal with other unpleasant things. I still believe nurses are amazing given all the responsibilities they have. Thank you for all you advice!

OP, there is also advice nurse jobs

Is that a website that tells you about the different specialities in nursing?

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I had about 9 years of med-surg, post-partum experience when I went to ICU. I learned an incredible amount in ICU, however I would go home second guessing myself. "If had increased this gtt would they have lived?" Finally one night I was doing that, and realized my patient was 90 years old and it was her time. That was when I decided to leave ICU. When I went back to being a night float (including ICU, post-partum/WBN) I felt the ICU experience was invaluable. Occassionaly I would go to L&D and take a patient with central lines and when I would float to ICU, I was happy to take the rare OB patient in ICU. Some of the ICU nurses didn't care for taking FHTs. Over 40 years, I learned new things in every job I had.

Yes, it can get messy. I think nurses often have one thing they don't like, stool, blood, sputum, emesis. Over time, most seem to adjust. To this day, sputum is my least favorite body fluid.

I see. I guess ICU makes you really OCD about making sure you are doing everything perfectly.

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Specializes in Postpartum, Med Surg, Home Health.
Is that a website that tells you about the different specialities in nursing?

No it's not a website. There are advice nurse jobs. Where nurses sit in an office or wherever and answer phone calls and give advice. Usually for doctor offices or big hospital companies, or insurance companies. You give telephone advice to the patients that call in.

There is also insurance nursing. They are like case managers at health insurance companies, they deal with claims and basically all paperwork job.

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Specializes in Hospice.
Yeah, I heard that new grads in California for nursing are having a hard time finding work too. I think the future for nurses will look brighter once some nurses retire. I heard how there is a significant number of nurses that are over 50. All it takes is patience.

If you're waiting for the young Baby Boomer nurses to retire (the ones in their 50s), you will need to be VERY patient.

Like maybe 15 to 20 years patient.

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Specializes in Hospice.
No it's not a website. There are advice nurse jobs. Where nurses sit in an office or wherever and answer phone calls and give advice. Usually for doctor offices or big hospital companies, or insurance companies. You give telephone advice to the patients that call in.

There is also insurance nursing. They are like case managers at health insurance companies, they deal with claims and basically all paperwork job.

Unfortunately, you have to have significant experience in a specialty like ICU, cardiac, OR, Home Care, etc. to do this.

You can't expect to just walk into an office and start giving people advice without knowing what you're talking about.

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Unfortunately, you have to have significant experience in a specialty like ICU, cardiac, OR, Home Care, etc. to do this.

You can't expect to just walk into an office and start giving people advice without knowing what you're talking about.

Yes. This was part if my job in the clinic. Although I wasn't an L&D nurse I beat out newer nurses for the position because of my experience.

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Specializes in kids.
Maybe becoming a nurse injector would be a good career for you. It won't be a stepping stone to CRNA but sounds like you could enjoy it and the pay is good.

Just make sure you change both the needle AND the syringe when giving flu shots......

Nurse used same syringe on 67 people at N.J. flu clinic, state says | NJ.com

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I would suppose nurses could maybe do an internship. Wouldn't that help land a job and network with your supervisors?

Some hospitals have new graduate residency programs, and the competition is fierce for these positions. There may be only one new grad position per unit, and you literally have to be the best to get these jobs. I think that is why it is important that you want to embrace nursing in all its forms because it can become very frustrating when your resume is rejected by the screening computer program. The drive to keep applying comes from having a passion for nursing.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Maybe there's a high unemployment rate because hospitals have to spend so much money to train a new nurse. Plus, hospitals want to have a good ratio of new grads and senior nurses to protect the safety of patients. Lots of new grads could potentially lead to lots of law suits. This is according to what a nurse told me.

Ahhhhhh, to be that trusting again! OP, that nurse told you what hospitals SHOULD care about, not what reality is. Senior nurses get fired every day because of their salaries. There are entire hospital floors where the most senior RN haS 2 years of experience and the 1-year nurses are precepting the new grads.

OP, I mean this in the nicest possible way: you have expressed some very naive opinions as fact regarding the current state of nursing in this country. In many of these statements (as illustrated above), you really could not be further from the truth. I think you should do some more (MUCH more) research both here and in the press before making any further career plans. Please save yourself heartache by being very certain of exactly where you should be focusing your time and energy in nursing.

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One more time for the folks in the back-they couldn't hear you for the IV pumps beeping...

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Some hospitals have new graduate residency programs, and the competition is fierce for these positions. There may be only one new grad position per unit, and you literally have to be the best to get these jobs. I think that is why it is important that you want to embrace nursing in all its forms because it can become very frustrating when your resume is rejected by the screening computer program. The drive to keep applying comes from having a passion for nursing.

Ok. So, for the people that are the very best in nursing that get selected, are they the ones with a high GPA? Are there any other factors that play a role in getting selected?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Ok. So, for the people that are the very best in nursing that get selected, are they the ones with a high GPA? Are there any other factors that play a role in getting selected?

Who you know.

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