Specialty with low/least stress?

Mookie427 · Mar 5, 2009

I started my nursing career in Telemetry/Trauma and handling 6 patients was a chore, especially giving all meds and doing documentation. After 2 years of that i went ino Medical ICU. Granted it was just 2 patients, but they were the sickest of the sick, and required continual critical thinking of what might go wrong. During my tenure in ICU, many of my patients reeived conventional dialysis. Gee, that dialysis nurse is reading his/her book and just jotting the vital signs every 15 minutes.... Monitoring the blood pressure. Well, if the patient crashes its not THEIR responsibility if a code occurs. I was still the primary nurse who must attend to those matters.

So, if you really want to know where the least amount of stress is, its with dialysis.

PedsRN1975 · Mar 5, 2009

Intermediate, Intensive Care Nursery. You feed, change, burp, assess and watch them grow. Most times is pretty chill. Occasionally you have a surprise but not usually. This by the way is a NICU stepdown. I found it rather boring though, specially that most of the kids have the mothers there everyday to feed, burp change etc...

:zzzzz:sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :sleep:

swirlygirl · Mar 5, 2009

In the hospital that I work at it seems like the least stressful jobs are the Employee Health Nurses and the Educational Nurses. I would love to have one of those jobs. Every time you see one of the nurses from one of those departments, they're walking around laughing and sounding like Snow White.

walktheline · Mar 5, 2009

I would love to have one of those jobs. Every time you see one of the nurses from one of those departments, they're walking around laughing and sounding like Snow White.

LOL!!! You are so right!!

LilyBlue · Mar 5, 2009

I think in general it's less likely to be important what the specialty is - it's more about the patient ratio, relationship with docs, and support staff. Does that make sense? In other words, more about getting HELP with your patients instead of cowboying it.

TigerGalLE, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2009

I work in medsurg and I think if patient ratios were 4:1 it would be my dream job.... oh but wait... that will never happen.

mommyX2 · Mar 5, 2009

I worked as a tech and did an externship in an acute dialysis unit while in nursing school and for the most part it is kinda relaxed.

MADHAT6 · Mar 5, 2009

i hope this does not sound mean but if you are not even in nursing and yet you are already worried about the stress level is it the right choice ?

PAERRN20 · Mar 5, 2009

No. I am an ER RN.

delawaremalenurse · Mar 5, 2009

Then there's nursing outside of the hospital or physician office setting...public heath nursing, school nursing, etc.

I used to do ICU nursing then switched to Public Health Nursing....stress factor went from "9" to a "1" on my personal stress-o-meter. Not to mention I work M-F, no nights, no holiday, no weekends. 37.5 hours is considered full-time and I get full State benefits and lots of holidays! :yeah:

oh yeah...i make the same amount as i would on day-shift (excluding differentials of course)!

AnnieOaklyRN, BSN, RN, EMT-P · Mar 5, 2009

The jobs with the least stress are sometimes also the jobs that are the least interesting....

I guess I must fine stress interesting...

Sweetooth

Aneroo, LPN · Mar 5, 2009

Then there's nursing outside of the hospital or physician office setting...public heath nursing, school nursing, etc.
I used to do ICU nursing then switched to Public Health Nursing....stress factor went from "9" to a "1" on my personal stress-o-meter. Not to mention I work M-F, no nights, no holiday, no weekends. 37.5 hours is considered full-time and I get full State benefits and lots of holidays!
oh yeah...i make the same amount as i would on day-shift (excluding differentials of course)!

And I disagree. :lol2: I've never feared for my job as a nurse, until I did public health nursing. I though hospital paperwork was bad? Yech. LOL I hate watching the news because it's always "budget cuts this, budget cuts that..." I had the same misconception that school nursing was easy, until I did it.