My dream job is to be an trauma ER nurse. I've recently graduated and just accepted a job in another state working nights in the ER. It doesn't have a trauma center but it's a great hospital. I figure it's a step in the right direction and a great way to gain valuable experience.
My dream RN position is in L&D at OSU Medical Center. I plan on stepping up the ladder. I'm a LTC CNA at this moment but when I go back to Ohio I plan on applying as a tech at OSU while also taking courses to become an LPN at CSCC then of course get my RN there, BSN at OSU, and hopefully be employed at the med center long enough to where they're like "oh yeah she's a great employee let's hire her in L&D" when I apply as an L&D RN lol. I want to eventually get my masters in midwifery at OSU and become a midwife. One step at a time though!
Mental Health all the way! I have always been fascinated with all aspects of mental illness, treatment and recovery and am aiming to become a community mental health liaison nurse as well as work inpatient acute. I am currently an EN (LPN/LVN in the US) and have a year to go until I'm an RN. After that, it's another year for a Post Grad Diploma in Clinical Nursing (Mental Health). I'm really lucky I am also currently working in mental health rehabilitation.
My dream job is to be a Nurse Practitioner specializing in Reproductive Endocrinology (Infertility.) If I'm pretty burned out after nursing school, I'm okay with being a Fertility Nurse and not pursuing additional education to be an NP.
During all of my years of infertility (at several different clinics), not once did I have a Reproductive Endocrinologist or Nurse who had been through the experience.
I have always wanted to be a nurse when my kids got a little older, but after going through the infertility process on three separate occasions - I am 110% clear on what I want to do.
What am I doing to get there? Well, currently I'm still working on my prerequisites. Then I'll get my BSN. After that, I am fully aware that it may be awhile until I can land a job as a fertility nurse, so I'm open to working just about anywhere. Who knows, when start rotations in school I may find another love!
I love, love, love infertility. (I hate it for what it took away from me, too. But I find it utterly fascinating.)
My dream job is in a PICU. I have been a nurse for 2 years, but I am not there yet. I took a job right after graduation in dialysis. Finally a position opened in a pediatric ortho hospital. I love my job and most days feel like I have hit the nursing lottery! My precepting (Peds post-op) pretty much landed me this job, where I have been a little under a year. By the end of the year I plan on getting my CPN and applying to any PICU opening I can find. I wouldn't leave my great job for anything else!
Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I am lucky. I already have my dream nursing job. The funny thing is that it didn't even exist when I was a nursing student. I am full time rapid response. I have more autonomy than I ever thought it possible for a hospital RN to have. Its like being an trauma nurse, ER nurse, ICU nurse, paramedic, nurse educator, PICU nurse with some aspects that feel a lot like a nurse practitioner thrown in.
I don't get patient assignments. Instead I carry a phone and the RRT number is all over the hospital. I get calls from everything from persistent bleeding noses, to trauma, to obstructed pediatric airway, chest pain, respiratory distress, and a thousand other things. Swoop in, save the day, move on. Its great.
My dream job is to be a neonatal nurse practitioner. I couldn't get into the NICU, so I am currently on a med/surg unit. I hope to transfer after a year or so of experience.
CaptCrzy
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My dream job is to be an trauma ER nurse. I've recently graduated and just accepted a job in another state working nights in the ER. It doesn't have a trauma center but it's a great hospital. I figure it's a step in the right direction and a great way to gain valuable experience.