your nursing career dream

[Mecene]

if you the time, the skills, the resources and no limitations, is there a dream nursing position that you would like to hold? what is your all time nursing job? and if you are not in your dream nursing position, why not?

[S.N. Visit, BSN, RN]

I'd be Brad Pitt's personal nurse ! haha If not that, I'd love to have been a movie set nurse. I'm happily married with three kids in the mid-west. Maybe someday, I can pursue it.

[RNMeg]

I have a pretty simple dream..

Graduate, pass NClex, get my license, work ICU for 2 or 3 years and then move into a surgery center OR :loveya:

[rnmomtobe2010]

Get my lpn license, become a NP and move to Hollywood...Just kidding about the Hollywood, though....

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Are you ready for this? Doing the same job I'm already doing, just doing it with a ratio of say three or four patients (ROFL), and doing it just whenever the mood struck me! Yep, I'd keep to surgical nursing, just in the fantasy land of this dream I'd show up only when I felt like it, LOL...

[Mecene]

My fellow nurse, let me encourage you to pursue your dream today, not someday. your nursing career dreams are not fantasies, they are your most heart-felt desires. for years I worked with nurses who loved the nursing profession, but live with the longing of using their nursing skills, knowledge and experience, but because of lack of focus miss their true calling and destiny. my mission in life as a coach is to help nurses like you with wildest dreams such as yours. do something today and everyday that will bring you closer to realize your dream.

good luck my friend

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

I am doing my dream job right now, I am a nurse practitioner and work for a brilliant surgeon. I also have some managerial and teaching responsibilites so I get a mix of patient care, advanced practice education and practice development.

[missjennmb]

I'm a student atm, which is why I am not doing my dream job by far. :)

That being said, I'm really not sure what my dream job would be. I am learning a lot, but mostly I am learning what I DONT want to do, more than what I do want to. (there are certain areas of nursing that I find myself unable to hold it together in and my heart breaks so much that I don't think I could do that as a job once school was over...but thats another subject)

I'm thinking that I would REALLY like to be either a school nurse, psychiatric NP or the one that seems more and more appealing to me the past few weeks... a nursing school instructor. I really like the combination of hours, continued if somewhat semi-detached hospital contact, and ability to guide and mold future generations of nurses. I often toyed with the idea of being a teacher but never could settle on an area of teaching that I was interested in enough to go to school for. Of course, I realize that in order to be a nurse-educator I need to first get some hands on practice, so thats a ways down the road.

On some days... (I'm having a VERY difficult time adjusting to the reality of how much death and pain and just... evil there is in the world atm...I'm told its normal for a new student)... I think maybe I would like to be a CRNA in an elective surgery outpatient center... like for breast augmentations etc. I like the idea of never sticking someone who didnt ask me to, seeing patients transform themselves as opposed to seeing them in pain due to tragedy and the general independence that a CRNA has.

[Mecene]

you sound like you are still in nursing school. my next project is working with senior nursing student like you to help them put together a nursing career blueprint for entering the working world. you sound like you have a good idea of what you want to accomplish, my prayer for you is that you do not lose those dreams like many of us, because life and the day to day living has a way of stealing dreams. I desire to have the opportunity to work with every new grad entering the work force as a coach to not only develop a career blueplan with them, but also to keep them focus on their career goals.

good luck to you!

[missjennmb]

thank you :) yes, I am still a student. I am very fortunate to have an incredibly supportive husband who tells me every day that all he wants out of this life is for me to be happy. Because of that, I think my chances to fulfill my dreams, whatever they end up being, are pretty good. Hopefully anyways :)

I should say that I did give him his dreams first, and so he is returning that favor so to speak, which is a bit more leverage to stay on track. :)

I hope my school gives us some sort of guidance like that as we leave, because they looked at me like I had 3 heads when I told them I had already applied to an LPN to RN transfer program. :)

[potatomasher]

My nursing career dream is to be a member of the UN/WHO and be sent to remote places in Africa and educate and help the people there. Then I'm ready to die after that...because to me that is a life well lived! :-)

[luvschoolnursing, LPN]

Took me quite a few years to get there, but I have my dream job. First job I ever had that I don't dread going to and for the most part even look forward to going to. Of course I complain about administration, salary, etc., but it's still the best job I could imagine.