There IS HOPE on the horizon!

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Hello All,

Just wanted to update after my posts a little over a year ago (check them out for backstory).

Just want to say that I am still working as a nurse and have FINALLY found my niche in nursing! I now work as an MDS Coordinator. Is it all rainbows and roses? No, it's still hard work and I still haven't even scratched the surface of learning this position.

Is there a part of me that will always miss my dream of working on the floor in a hospital? Yes, most days I am fine, but there are days that the pain and sadness come roaring back. I think a part of me will always wonder why I wasn't able to cut it. I think there will always be a part of me that misses it.

But in general, I am HAPPY. I don't feel like I have the target on my back like I did before.

There IS HOPE for those that don't really know what is going on with your nursing career.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.

Congrats!

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty AND Child/Adolescent Psych.

Happy for you that you found your niche. Nursing IS  amazingly full with abundant diversity in positions.  

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Glad you found something that works for you.  

 

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Specializes in Pediatrics, NICU.

I hope one day I'd be able to relate lmao

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Specializes in LTC, Management.

Congrats! MDS is definingly a difficult, but interesting field. I was recently offered that position, but declined it because I want experience outside of LTC (Been with it for 9 years). If it wasn't for that I would of easily accepted it!

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6 hours ago, DyerRN said:

Congrats! MDS is definingly a difficult, but interesting field. I was recently offered that position, but declined it because I want experience outside of LTC (Been with it for 9 years). If it wasn't for that I would of easily accepted it!

Yes, it really is a whole different animal. HUGE learning curve.

My only frustration/regret? is that I started in this position about a week before COVID exploded back in March.

It hasn't been the most fun trying to learn this position on top of all the other positions, but praise GOD, our facility hasn't had COVID (we have had a couple of "scares", but they never turned into anything

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Specializes in LTC, Management.

Sadly we have lost two MDS coordinators since then. I semi regret not taking the job. Putting the little pieces together to get the most payment would be fun, but I'm only 28 and feel it is best to experience things outside of a SNF for awhile. Never know I may come back!

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Specializes in SNF/LTC, MDS.

So glad for you! I too had a lot of trouble finding a job a liked and felt confident in early in my career. I have been an MDS coordinator for 20 years now and still enjoy it - always something to learn even after all this time!

 

 

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