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I'm torn...
I love working with babies/children, so maybe pediatrics or NICU someday down the line.
But I absolutely love psych, especially with geriatric patients. I also have a soft spot for patients with dementia/alzheimer's.
The areas I would NEVER want to work in are:
-OR
-Oncology (my father died from cancer when I was very young and it just hits too close to home)
yeah i know. i work for a doctor's office now; they want to open a surgery center of their own. and i plan on keeping my connections with them in the future when i go to school fulltime. i use to be the surgery coordinator for the office and i'm very familiar with the employees at the centers we work with. i'm just hoping when it's time to find a job they would consider me and the doctors that i currently work for would be able to write me a letter of recommendation. i feel really hopeful about my future; it will all work out one way or another.
you have to start somewhere right?
I plan to stay in hospice. I've been there nearly 12 years as an LPN and continue working part-time while in school. I love hospice because you can truly make a difference in a persons last days, weeks, or months. I actually just read an article on using the COPE method (creativity, optimism, planning, expert information) with cancer pts and I'm thinking, "I can use some of these things with my own pts".
I'd love to do emergency nursing. I've been able to do a few clinical days in the ED and even when it's nothing terrible flashy I still find it exciting. I like the variety, the pace, the energy and the personality of the folks who work in ER nursing.
I will not do psych nursing- HATED my psych clinical, felt like *I* was on lock down, didn't like the compromises to patient autonomy made at the facility. I also don't want to do oncology- my dad was diagnosed with cancer the summer I started school and I just don't want to know *anything* about it other than what's going on with my dad (no stats, not whether his response is typical or atypical, not what all could possibly go wrong, etc. I *just* want to be part of the patient's family for cancer).
sophie<3
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i think the subject says it all...what kind of nurse do you want to be when you grow up and why? :) for me- either NICU nursing, OR, OB...maybe Peds?? still figuring it out
i LOVE babies/children- big & small...and i really enjoyed my OR day and could definately see myself doing that-the different operations just blow my mind!