didiboRN

Still new to the site, so I'm not sure if someone already answered you... I think you would find this as a general surgery nurse in a large city/county hospital. These large hospitals generally have special teams for stuff like this. I work at a large teaching hospital, and along with the surgery group, there is a plastics group of surgeons who work on the trauma cases and burns, etc. If you can get some OR experience, I bet you could break into this area with no problem at all! Best of luck to you!

I totally agree with you... I'm still within my first year of nursing. I followed the advice of many of my instructors at school and started out in med-surg. While I wouldn't trade the wealth of knowledge I've gained for anything, I absolutely HATE my job. I'm trying to make the year marker before looking elsewhere, though. But it's such a mistake to not look for something else within nursing if you're not happy where you're at... I'm hoping and praying that I will find a job I love where I can again actually spend time with my patients and be able to teach... I like the commercials Johnsons & Johnsons has... although I don't think it's a realistic perception in what my experience has been... =/

Amen. These are many of the notes I've made to myself in my first year as a nurse... an excellent summary. :):):)