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POTS

Hi Everyone,

I graduated from nursing school two years ago and have two years of med-surg experience. I just got diagnosed with POTS and am no longer able to work the floor. Does anyone have any ideas of other environments for me to work where walking isn't necessary (Or at least walking for less than five minutes at a time), but I'm still somewhat involved with patient care?

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I am still in nursing school so I can't speak from experience. I just didn't want to leave you with no replies because I'm in the process of possibly being diagnosed with POTS right now, and it sucks. I'm sorry you're going through this. What about school nursing, hospice, or administrative work?

Anyone with pots also needs to be evaluated for a spinal csf leak. Especially in patients with ehlers danlos syndrome. The symptoms of pots and leaks are very similar.

I am in the process of getting diagnosed with POTS too and I had to quit my floor job awhile ago. I have been researching this for awhile and found some options, b ut they are tricky because most places require more experience than I have, but it sounds like you might have enough and I often hear that just because they post a minimum experience, doesn't always mean they won't hire beneath that so its worth a shot. Here is what I found: telephone triage, case management, home health, remote jobs (most are similar to case managment), insurance companies or research, community health, clinic jobs, and dialysis or outpatient chemo infusion centers. My problem is that my dysautonomia (and who knows what else i have) has caused serious brain fog, so i'm not sure i can do anything until that gets better, if it ever does. Also, I only have 1.5 years in the OR so I don't really qualify for anything i've listed. It sucks. You should join the POTS and Dysautonomia groups on facebook. There are a lot of nurses in there actually. They're very helpful groups and i've learned so much. They even have local pages for your state to help with doctor reviews and finding testing centers, etc. Good lucky, I hope you don't have POTS ?

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