Nursing school advice needed

You may be getting frowns because they are uncomfortable with the fields you are interested in. Like myself, I have no interest in neonatal anything. As you continue with school attempt to talk with those who are working in the fields you are interested in, to get their point of view and how they began working there. Keep an open mind as you go through school, some other field may grab your interest.

First of all you are thinking of step 220 when you are only on step one. When you go into nursing school you are not supposed to know where you want to end up. you can have an idea but during nursing school you learn about everying, med-women, young-old, bruises to life ending diseases and everything in-between. You will also do clinicals which you will be in a hospital taking care of people, you will be exposed to everything. This is where you will make your decision. Frowns may be comming from experience not that neonatal is a bad place to work but you haven't experienced it yet, sure it sounds nice working with babies, but you are not ready to make the decision yet having not witnessed starting an IV, working a ventilator or dealing with parents who are loosing their baby (Sure its the bad stuff I mentioned there are a lot of good too) but you need to experience things before you will have a clue where you want to end up. I know people at nursing school who from the moment they walked in the door wanted to be a surgical nurse, they hated their rotation so they crossed that off the things they wanted to do, they are in peds now and love it.

Everyone finds their place and that place might change or not. Go for what is in your heart and don't worry about what others think or tell you. I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was 12, then a jockey when I was 13(job at racing stable), then went to farrier school when I got out of high school, now I am a nurse with lots of critical care experience working in a LTC facility. Life puts you in the place that works for you at the time.

yup, I agree, your mind may change. That is the exact field that got me into Nursing School, but I have fallen in love with everything and I meen everything, so now that I am almost done. I want to be a Med Surge Nurse. Is that nuts or what?

People respect nurses no matter what field they choose, don't worry about the frowns, they may be having a bad day or really have no clue anything about Neonates or may be GREEN with ENVY!!!

:rotfl: H don't want to hand the Dr his/her tools I want to be in the action and help. What are my options there?

There are different nursing roles in a surgical procedure. The nurse who hands the doc tools is not as easy as it looks if I understand it correctly. You have to be familiar with the procedures also and anticipate the request. In another word, you don't want the doc asking for X and it takes you like 5 seconds to find it all the time. As soon as the doc ask, you already have it in your hand because you anticipated it already. I am sure there are other things also, ask a surgical nurse.

-Dan

nurseinthemaking, you have chosen a cool environment. Tough but none the less a wonderful place to be. You will see patients go back home, you will have that satisfaction and you might help families make the decision to place someone in care in the home or somewhere else.