Tleeves

There are lots of options, you can combine nursing with your journalism experience and education, even. You can work as a flight nurse, work for a nursing magazine, do nursing research, work in a community setting, as a parish nurse, or a community health nurse, or as a patient advocate. You can work in clinics, work for large companies organizing their health and safety policies, work as a school nurse, work as a nurse consultant for a newspaper, or for an insurance company, or as a Set nurse in the film industry, or at a private facility such as a spa, or a eating disorder or alcohol rehab inpatient facility, the list of possibilities is endless, Bedside nursing is not the only option, and the wages are so varied it is hard to pin down specific numbers. I have a friend who spends about 8 of 12 months a year flying around the world with a team of nurses and surgeons doing fantastic surgeries in countries that don't have the capability ti do it themselves, and she makes $80,000 per year. Don;t let the naysayers get you down, there are plenty of opportunities in nursing.

Sorry to say, most of what I have heard about ECMO surrounds neonates, we don't even have ECMO for the adult units. Although we are getting it for the Peds ICU, I would love to hear Adult ECMO success stories too.