Unique PRN positions?

[heydelilah]

Hey all,

I'm a recent grad and I'm coming up on my six months on my MS unit. I pick up OT every little while, but I'm looking for something "different". What were/are your favorite positions outside of your main practice area?

[somenurse]

my main practice area,

was floating.

When i started nursing, i said i want to work in every field of nursing that i heard of, so that when i hang up my stethyscope and retire, i can say, "I've done it all."

And mostly i have met that goal, hard to find any area of type of nursing i haven't done.

but, among my favorite areas, were ER, ICU, and i also enjoyed working in outpatient surgery centers.

OPSC often have daytime MON-FRI hours,

all holidays off

and many (not all, but many) cross train their staff to work in pre-op area, and PACU area, and discharge(pt teaching) area, which makes your shift more fun, imo, as you move from one dept to the next.

I also liked hospice a lot, too, and felt i really was helping, really was making a difference.

I disliked peds, and newborn nursery, but, did like NICU. (it was the anxiety-ridden parents and grandparents that made Peds less appealing to me, not the kids) and i like babies to be on monitors, ha ha, is why i preferred NICU over newborn nursery. Those bruised/blue faces, swaddled in blankets, i couldn't tell if the baby was breathing or not, jsut no way to know if a blue faced baby is breathing or not, without your finger by baby face.

and decades of "airway patrolling" made newborn nursery not a good fit for ME. But, put a monitor on the baby, i'm fine. ha ha. go figure, right?

didn't care for L&D for any length of time, either, great huge fun at first, wow, what a thrill, but, overtime, i was ready to go.

I liked IV team, too, liked running all over the house.

OOH! OOH! Maybe my alltime most favorite thing ever, was working in "Special Procedures/Interventional Radiology"........oh my yes, now that is some amazing stuff. My role in the room was giving the IV sedate, while a doc and techs did amazing things like apply chemo directly to a tumor in a brain via the femoral artery, stuff like that. Every procedure, yet another amazing thing to see. You get to watch the body under fluoroscopy all day long, very fascinating, imo.

but, overall, my favorite area was probably ER, cuz, it's 'everything', almost all the other areas can be somewhat experienced there, always always something different, always.

but, everyone is different. An area i might like a lot, might hold zero appeal for YOU.