RN at a loss as to what to get into next

Its whopping fun to come on here and vent, because we cannot do it at our workplaces. I've been burned out of nursing for 20 years, but I have never taken it out on a patient. Not once. I've left the field and had to return under financial duress. I wish I never went into this. Get a non nursing job for a while if you can. I worked in retail, made squat, and actually the drama level was almost as bad as nursing. Not worth it.

Thanks! I do love working with patients, just not the floor nurse type stuff, and med-passes, etc for now. I'll keep looking. Thank you ?

What about an educator position, either in SNF or acute care? It is such a great job!

Also, a friend of mine works in a wound care clinic for a big HMO. I don't know how common these types of clinics or jobs are but it sounds great.

My wife works for an insurance company and I work in a corporate setting. Look at wound care companies, they are always hiring nurses.

Are you completely ruling out a hospital? Hospitals have wound care nurses that manage the complex dressings with wound vacs, they assess and prescribe wound care for pressure ulcers and manage the dressings for some of them esp those with mist therapy, and they manage and teach new ostomy patients dressings and enterocutaneous fistula dressings (long and complex dsg change). At a former hospital they did unna boots, not at present hospital- unna boots are only outpatient management.

They do not pass meds- only wound care.

Your suggestions have all been wonderful, and I'm going to look into each one as those are all things I'm really interested in - becoming an educator, wound care position with a wound care company and in a hospital setting (previously when I said I didn't want to work in a hospital setting, I meant I didn't want to do bedside nursing).

Thank you so much everyone!

16 hours ago, 2Ask said:

Are you completely ruling out a hospital? Hospitals have wound care nurses that manage the complex dressings with wound vacs, they assess and prescribe wound care for pressure ulcers and manage the dressings for some of them esp those with mist therapy, and they manage and teach new ostomy patients dressings and enterocutaneous fistula dressings (long and complex dsg change). At a former hospital they did unna boots, not at present hospital- unna boots are only outpatient management.

They do not pass meds- only wound care.

This is a great idea too. Wound Ostomy Continence nursing is always something I wanted to do, too.