Tell Us About Your Dream Job

Mithrah · Feb 7, 2004

My dream job is to work in the NICU too. I want to be part of the NICU team that attends live births where they know the infant is going to need help.

And my dream is going to come true! I will graduate in May, but the place I applied and interviewed has expressed interest in me and will give me a formal offer closer to graduation.

Tracy A · Feb 7, 2004

Actually I love where I am at. I work at an Urgent Care clinic. I am a medical assistant now, and I do everything an RN would do. I am the only nurse there and there is no boss looking over my shoulder. I just need that peice of paper so I can do the exact same thing and make twice as much.

I am interested in ER though, so we'll see after clinicals what really trips my fancy.

purplekath · Feb 8, 2004

My absolute dream job is to be a psych nurse with midwifery qualifications. To work in a psych unit but to do the antenatal, postnatal, mothercraft, labor attendence etc for mothers who are also psych patients. Whether it be IN the psych unit, or accompanying them to the labour ward as needed. Or doing home visits after the birth etc.

I've always had a heart for the mentally ill, and many mental illnesses are made worse when a woman is pregnant or postnatal (those lovely hormones always make things so much worse! lol)...so I see a definate niche for a nurse who is able to care for the pregnant body/new mother AND the ill mind :-)

Dreams jobs B and C are:

* School nursing - with a special interest in helping kids who are bullied. Would probably need to get some kind of counselling qualification? Not sure.

* Prison nursing -- my dh has put is foot down about this, but I really like the idea. Mind you, I've never met a prison nurse so I might change my mind if hit with the REALITY. lol.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Feb 8, 2004

Originally posted by Tracy A
....... I am a medical assistant now, and I do everything an RN would do. I am the only nurse there and there is no boss looking over my shoulder. I just need that peice of paper so I can do the exact same thing and make twice as much.

It is illegal to refer to yourself as a nurse if you are not one. You are an MA. Please be proud of that accomplishment, and do not refer to yourself as a nurse until you are one.

NurseRatchet26 · Feb 8, 2004

Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse
It is illegal to refer to yourself as a nurse if you are not one. You are an MA. Please be proud of that accomplishment, and do not refer to yourself as a nurse until you are one.

There is no need to be rude to her.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Feb 8, 2004

I asked her not to refer to herself as a nurse when she is not one. I said "please" and said she should be proud of being an MA. I also pointed out that it is illegal to call yourself a nurse, if you are not one. My BON newsletter has stories of arrests of "nurse impersonators" every month.

I was direct, but not rude.

I have encountered people who are not nurses refering to themselves as nurses four times this week. Is this a trend or something?

I don't know of any nurses who refer to themselves as doctors. Why do I keep running across MAs, techs and CNAS who refer to themselves as nurses?

As for my dream job, I'm not sure what it is, but I know everyone there would be proud of their true, earned title, and not try to pass themselves off as something else.

Tracy A · Feb 8, 2004

My nametag states clearly that I am a CMA, but it also says " clinic nurse" on it. That is how they choose to label me, that is not how I label myself.

LPNtoBSNstudent, BSN, RN · Feb 8, 2004

Ok, maybe your name tag states clearly "CMA". That doesn't mean that it is "clear" to John Q Public. It is illegal and misleading to be called the "clinic nurse". I know people who have been investigated by the BON for things very similar. I never did end up finding out what came of it.

Hellllllllo Nurse is right. She wasn't being rude either. For that matter, she enlightened you to something that could very well could be a huge problem for you if you had not known!

All it takes is a phone call. Either you could call the state board... verify and ask for yourself, or someone else could call and report it....and there the ball starts rolling.

My dream job? Oh, I am still trying to figure it out. I am really interested in Wound Ostomy Continence nursing. I used to be a 'treatment nurse' in a couple different nursing homes over the course of about 7 years. That is why I went back to school for my BSN, so that I could attend WOC school for the specialty. But now that I am in school, I have all sorts of different ideas of what I might do. Can't decide!!

Jen2 · Feb 8, 2004

I am also a CMA and never refer to myself as a nurse, however, I have corrected many people who just assume because you are in scrubs and have a stethescope that your a nurse.

It is illegal to refer to yourself as a nurse when you are not. In all honesty, I at one time thought I did the same as nurses do for half the pay. I worked in a large practice where I performed many skills. I put I.V.'s in (the PA would just press start on the pump), monitored patients revieving infusions, Vitals, injections, and many other technical skills that nurses do.

The key word here is skills. I knew how to do the skills, but didn't know why I was doing them, and now this critical thinking thing is blowing my mind. I had a big head when I started nursing school, and have been knocked down quite a few pegs since. Just last week during my O.R. rotation I pulled an I.V. that was hung to gravity thinking, Hey I've done this hundreds of times. Guess what? I didn't clamp it first. I was only used to pulling I.V.'s after the bag was empty. Live and learn.

As far as my dream job, I love trauma. I want to be in a emergency department in a level 1 trauma center.

Jen2 · Feb 8, 2004

P.S. I also had to correct the Doctors before when they told a patient that "my nurse will handle this", I would politely tell them that I was not a nurse and I bet that they wouldn't like being called a PA. This stopped from that point on, and with 2 semesters to go I will be able to legally be called a nurse (godwilling).

RedSox33RN · Feb 8, 2004

My dream job, which is WAY down the road, seeing as I have yet to even start nursing school, would be become a CRNA. I love the thought of being in the OR also, so I would like to be an OR nurse when I'm ready, then eventually go into the field of Anesthesia. I find it fascinating.

I have two close friends who are CNM, one of which who helped me deliver my last two children, and both think I have the mind and manor to be a midwife. I'm not so sure though. I'd have to wait and see after doing my OB rotation. I know there is a huge shortage of midwives in our area, and the demand is great. But I think thought it may be interesting, my dream job would be in the OR.