kimme721

even the ones that say experience required or experience prefered?

hmmm thank you mbarn08 i didn't think of trying to do some per diem in an er. i am trying to get out of travel nursing and into a permanent position in a hospital near my home. i hope that the excitement will last a little longer than it has here for me. i dread coming to work because i feel like i'm just staring at the clock waiting for it to be over. it doesn't feel challenging. i have thought of going back to school to challenge myself. i have a good social and family life, very rewarding, but i want to feel challenged. i love problem solving!

So I've been a nurse for 3 years, and 2 of those have been spent doing travel nursing on tele units. I would love the excitement of working in an ER but I can't find a place that has a transition program for experienced nurses with no ER experience. I'm looking in north central MA or southern NH. Any suggestions?

So I graduated 3 years ago and worked on a med/surg floor (as is recommended) for a year and then started travel nursing. I have traveled to a couple of different states, which was exciting, but once you got over the being somewhere new, it was the same job day in and day out. I am looking for some excitement in my job, something to get excited about at work. I'm tried of the hum-drum of floor nursing: med passes, assessments, incontinence care, frequent narcotic administration... there's nothing exciting about it to me. I do like healthcare, and occasionally I will find myself having an exciting shift where there is alot going on, and there is problem solving required, and its something different from the ordinary. I thought maybe a position in an ER would cure my desire for excitment, but I am a med/surg-telemetry nurse and I can't find an ER that has a transition program (similar to a new grad program, but its for experienced nurses that just don't have experience in that particular area of nursing expertise). I have also been reading a little about forensic nursing, which seems exciting, but again, there seems to be a pattern there too with mostly sexual assault cases. Does anyone have any suggestions for spicing up my nursing career?