Something Positive: Your 5-Year Plan

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Hi all,

I was hanging laundry at 4 am last night (can't get off that night shift schedule) and thinking about the future.

next year or two: get my PCCN certification and precept. I'd like to have the solid knowledge base before I get a really sharp new grad who drops a ton of 'what if...' questions on my head.

3-5 years: go get my MSN and start teaching ADN or BSN students. We have several awesome ADN programs around here that I'd be willing to work for in the clinical setting.

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maybe take a detour and go work in the ED or CTICU for a few years, and see if I'm really cut out for this trauma/flight nurse business.

What is your 5-year (nursing) plan?

Specializes in Pharmaceutical Research, Operating Room.

4 years: spend my summer off hiking the Appalachian trail (not career related; bucket list item with my stepfather, we've been planning it for a long time)

Always wanted to do this too, what an amazing experience it would be! I hope you get to do it!

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Specializes in ICU.

Next month graduate. Then pass NCLEX. Keep working on my unit and obtain a couple of certs. Hopefully, CCRN and CTRN. I want to get married next year to my fiancé after we get settled into our lives together. I would also like to get pregnant again. I lost our baby last October and it made me realize I do want another one.

Hoping to be working days in the next few years also. Working nights is hard. It's just hard for my body to adjust so much because I still need to be on days on my days off.

If I can get some time in there, I may go for my BSN. I am ready for a break from school. These past 3 years have been hard.

I want though to do some good traveling and see and experience things with my family. We never did anything as a family with my ex-husband. My fiancé and I are very similar people so I look forward to all of these life experiences we will get to have together.

These se last few years have been a complete emotional roller coaster and I am excited for things to even out a bit in that dept.

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
Always wanted to do this too, what an amazing experience it would be! I hope you get to do it!

If I could do it end to end I absolutely would. I can make a good dent in the 2 months I get off for summer though!

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
Side note: sometime within the next 5 years, run a full marathon! Also, take an amazing, extended vacation to somewhere with white sand beaches and drinks with umbrellas in them when husband and I pay off all the debt!!!

Oh, me too! I have my first half in November. I'd like to do a full in the next 3 years.

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Specializes in kids.

Professionally:

I would like to take (and pass LOL!) the school nurse certification exam either this fall or next spring.

I would like to be able to quit my second job in LTC

Start exploring my retirement gig, have considered living in another country.

Personally:

Get to a healthy weight

Figure out how to not attract the crazy a$$ guys I seem to attract online!

Oh, and win Powerball!!! :roflmao::uhoh3:

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Specializes in Pharmaceutical Research, Operating Room.
Oh, me too! I have my first half in November. I'd like to do a full in the next 3 years.

That's wonderful!! I haven't gotten to that phase yet - started running last year, had a tibial stress fracture that put running on hold for a while because it wasn't healing like it should have been. I blame it on hauling the dreaded boot around the OR while I should have probably been resting it. Working on building my tolerance back up now - slow and steady wins the race! (and doesn't crack any bones again!)

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.

Mine is very low-key compared to many of yours. Work on my health, think about what other type(s) of nursing I might want to do, and may not be working in 5 years, but that depends on several factors. Right now am thinking about quitting in a few months to take a break & do the health & thinking thing - getting burned out in my present job/position.

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4 years: spend my summer off hiking the Appalachian trail (not career related; bucket list item with my stepfather, we've been planning it for a long time)

Have you read Bill Bryson's book A Walk In The Woods? I read it once a year; first time was in 2000.

One reviewer said "A tale that's laugh-out-loud funny, wonderfully evocative of a long-distance hike and filled with intrigue, pride, outrage, pain . . . Close to perfect . . . a fine, funny reminder that adventure waits close by, whether or not we chose to embrace it".

I've done one half-marathon in remembrance of a good friend who died of brain cancer. She was an avid hiker, runner, mountain climber. I'd like to do it again this year.

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
Have you read Bill Bryson's book A Walk In The Woods? I read it once a year; first time was in 2000.

That book is the reason my stepdad and I decided to do it!!!

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I want to be right where I am now. Working my 2 shifts a week in post partum. Maybe a charge nurse by then. I love being a bedside nurse !!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

In the next 2 years I plan to complete my ASN, pass the NCLEX and become an RN, then start working anywhere I can get a job (preferably L&D but I'll take anything so I can start paying off my loans). Then work towards the BSN online and hopefully get that done within the next 2 years. Year 5, who knows. I would really like to be involved in women's reproductive health in some way, because educating about sex, family planning, pregnancy, and new motherhood is a huge passion of mine. I'm still not quite sure how that particular passion would translate into the nursing field, but that's something I hope nursing school will help me to figure out.

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Specializes in ED, psych.

These are fun to read.

I'm just starting out (midlife crisis, goal #1):

* December 2016 Graduate with my BSN

* January 2017 Pass the NCLEX

(yank kids out of school, go to Disney to celebrate)

* Spring 2017 Looking to get a job as a med-surgical nurse at the children's hospital

* 2019 Transfer to the Pediatric ER at the same hospital

Personal:

* Not falling into deep depression/manic episode due to above goals (stress, you just never know with bipolar disorder)

* Hit all 50 states (2 left!)

* Run the NYC marathon (ran the Boston marathon, various Disney marathons, but really want to run this one)

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