cph1993

I'm looking to do the same thing when I get out of school also. Granted I dont even start nursing school until August so my plan may change. But I work as a unit secretary in a NICU right now and it's unfortunate that they didn't let you into the NICU as a student. There are multiple nursing programs who come to the facility where I work to do clinicals and there have been students from each school in the unit at one point or another.

Which hospitals in the Midwest would would specifically have a pediatric CVICU? That actually sounds really interesting

I've worked as a unit secretary in the NICU for about 3 months now and most of the time there isn't that much to it. When I first started, one of the charge nurses described the night secretaries duties by saying that the night secretary cleans/organizes the unit after it has been messed up during the day shift where there is less down time. My duties include putting stuff in charts, labeling charts, putting up supplies etc. A lot of the nurses have told me they started off as unit secretaries in other hospitals which is good news for me since I will be starting nursing school in the fall. I love hearing about the various conditions/issues with new admits and I've learned so much in such a short amount of time working there.

Hello! Although I know that nursing is the path I want to take, I am torn as to what area of nursing I want to go into. I'm so interested in everything medical that it is hard for me to imagine picking one area and hopefully making a career out of it. I've always been interested in trauma or cardio/CVICU but I recently started working as a unit secretary in the NICU at one of the larger hospitals in Southwest Missouri. As a male I never thought I would find this area to be as fascinating as it is and can possibly vision myself working in this unit if the opportunity were to present itself. I have already accepted the fact that being a male nurse already makes me a minority in the field, however in a field considered to be as feminine as working with babies I am extremely outnumbered by women haha I am one of only 4 guys who work in the unit. (One is a one of the Neonatologist, the other two are RT's). I already plan on becoming a NP after nursing school. I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts are about whether there is any place for a male nurse to be working in a NICU either as a nurse or potentially even as an NNP?