Job you would NEVER do in nursing....

[Otessa]

The economy stinks and new grads and other nurses are searching for employment.

What nursing job would YOU never do and why.....

otessa

[springfieldrn]

Labor and Delivery! Not Ever!

[BabyCatchr, ADN, ASN, RN]

Yay, Crunchy Mama!! I am against circumcision, formula, and unnecessary induction too!! Hopefully we can change the OB industry one baby at a time! (Even though I know you're not in OB). But you can influence women who ask your advice. Do you have children? If not, childbirth really does hurt a LOT, and I can see why women would want pain relief, but I feel it is an obligation to my children to give them a drug-free entry into the world. Geez, some women freak out about a sip of wine during pregnancy and then go and have fentanyl put in their epidural!!!

I would NEVER work in OB. I'm against circumcision, formula and inducing for no medical reason. Stealing this answer from someone else....I wouldn't deal with abortions either.

[BabyCatchr, ADN, ASN, RN]

We did say "unnecessary" inductions. Some are necessary, most are not. And there is a prize for drug-free delivery - a drug-free baby and a mom who can feel when to push and when not to push and not tear from orifice to privy parts or get a c-section because she can't effectively push...not to mention the whole host of other side effects, some of which are life-threatening (hypotension, allergic shock, cardiac arrest). I've seen 'em all.

Not attacking anyone, but there are reasons for induction that you may not agree with. My facility doesn't perform elective inductions. After 41 weeks a placenta begins to die, reason for induction, Pregnancy induced hypotension, preeclampsia, all warrant inductions. Circumcision is a personal choice, and I don't know too many men who care either way. I thank God everyday that I am. Also, despite what anyone tells you, we don't give out prizes for having a baby without pain medication. =)

[ewere]

i love babies but hate their cries that why i can't be in paed. i love quick attention to services , i love to be in the accident and emergency department.

[limestone]

This is one teriffic thread! It shows how one person's hell is another's heaven. Thank goodness we are all cut out for different kinds of nursing.

I have to stick up for psychiatric nursing, though. I had a dreadful experience with it as a student (scared and depressed because of traumatic events on the unit and terrible teacher) and vowed never to set foot on a psych unit ever again in my life.

But I had to take a psych job at one point early in my career due to relocation, and planned to stay there only as long as it took to get back into public health--maybe a year or so. But I found I loved it and thirty years later I'm still in it and wouldn't trade if for any other nursing job. Some patients are scary but they are human beings and with kindness, medication and patience, they can be helped and healed. If you see mental illness as a human affliction that could happen to any of us or our loved ones, it really helps.

Having praised psych, I have to say I could not work in a burn unit. I would love to hear from those who do what helps them cope with the pain, the contractures and the scarring that accompany it.

[DF-LPN]

I would never work in LTC. I would hate it and I would not risk my license.

Not criticizing your post, but not understanding the "risk my license" portion. I would think that would apply to any nursing job. Just curious.

Dee

[limestone]

Hello Michaboo,

Please read my letter wherever it come in the line-up (maybe Page 11). I love psychiatry, as human beings in their infinite varieties are endlessly fascinating. In psych the nurse is an instrument of healing, a wonderful thing to be. Yes, you give medications and do treatments, but your interactions, assessments and judgements about what is going on with the person are crucial. You learn to be friendly with out being a friend, to encourage and support, but also to set limits and maintain boundaries. You grow in skill and knowledge about yourself and your patients throughout your entire career.

I hope I have thrown some positive light on psychiatric nursing!

The only downside is that you probably would lose some of the cutting-edge med-surg skills you have worked so hard to attain. But if you come to love psych, you never want to leave it, so that is not an issue.

[Yakuza77]

Not really a fan of hospice

[itsmejuli]

I'd never work in OB, no thanks, I don't like listening to women complaining about all the pain. Plus while on clinical rotation I felt as if I was intruding on the bonding.

Hell no to peds, I can't stand to see a sick or injured child.

Can't do burns either, can't deal with the pain and disfigurement.

Plastic surgery and the like...hell no...too many people with self-esteem issues.

Psych? I'd work in psych if the people who need the help were really given the help they need. Too much of a revolving door with the lack of services available outside of the psych units. This breaks my heart.

Drug rehab? another hell no, I've dealt with enough addiction problems within my own family that I don't ever want to deal with another addict again.

[debbieferkRN]

I work in the NICU, I love it and even though I personally don't want my kids to get formula or circ'd, I still love my job. In nursing, you have to put your own personal preferences aside and remember that this is a free country. I wouldn't let my own child starve if I didn't have enough breastmilk of my own. Yes, there are milk banks out there, but sometimes even those can take a while to arrive!

A baby who needs to be fed every two hours can't wait for milk to be overnighted to your home! Really going to start an IV on your own baby and wait for milk to arrive?

As far as inductions, elective c-sections, elective inductions for no reason other than convenience pi$$ me off, but again it's not my job to tell a woman in labor what she SHOULD do. I can only educate her on the risk that a doctor may NOT have talked about. To each their own. A professional RN knows when to put their own biases aside.

With that being said, I could never work in the adult world except for working with L&D patients. I'm in the NICU now and I don't see myself anywhere else!!

Not only as a professional RN should we put our own biases aside, as human beings, unless it is illegal should we judge the choice another makes. However I do not believe a nurse should be expected to participate in procedures they feel are immoral such as abortion for instance. I do not care to ever work in psych. of any form ever again...too scary.

[HangInThere, BSN, RN]

Once I had an English teacher who sent me to an art museum with the assignment to write an essay about the picture I most hated. Funniest thing happened: I started to really like the the picture, the longer I looked at it.

However, don't think I could work in OB ... too many things can go wrong

[belgarion]

Management; no way, no how. Been down that road in my previous life and have the scars to show for it.