Other Options for Nurses

[Jpweston, BSN, RN]

I have come to hate nursing/being a nurse. I dread every shift. I cannot imagine doing this for the rest of my life. However, right now it's my only option to afford to live, and I'm only a year in (Crazy that I hate it after only a year). I left ICU 6 months in, and now I'm at an outpatient dialysis center, so bedside isn't the main issue. 
I worked so hard for this career, just to have no passion for it now. I'm stuck and don't know what other options I have with a BSN.
Does anyone else feel this way about nursing? 
What are my options?

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

I plan to retire in about a year. I can work per diem to keep my skills fresh but I have a couple of other irons in the fire.I I need to get my LLC so I can start marketing my line of supplements. I also thought about forming a team of retired nurses that could go out and conduct mock JACHO surveys. 

Hppy

 

[Davey Do]

Sometimes we have to kiss a lot of Warhols before we find our Rembrandt, Jpweston.

For example, I started out in nursing by being hired by the hospital where I took my LPN program. In seven years with that facility, I moved around three times. My next position was at a state-run mental facility where I worked for a year and a half and grew to despise. My next position in ER/med surge wasn't much better, when I got into HH and loved.

Now, had I started my nursing career in the two positions that I didn't care for, I, like you, would have been discouraged. In my 40 years in the field, I probably worked at about 10 facilities. Some, I liked, others I loved, some were just not for me.

Becoming a nurse is hard work, and finding the right fit may be as difficult, and I wish the best for you.

[Brian960]

There's always the health insurance companies.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Many insurance companies are begging for nurses.  Case management, disease management  you name it. Scour the job boards.