hey guys just wanted to see how many of you want to end up in the NICU and why you are choosing that road.
From my personal experiance, i was on a high school feild trip and it was to Valley Childrens Hospital which is in central california and has one of the best NICU's in the state. So we got to that floor and i immediatly felt a difference than in the other floors. It seemed mor calming and dim , and there is a nurse who talked to us and one girl in my class(didnt care for her) said kind of sarcasticly "how could you work here, it is so depressing" and the nurse smiled and said "When you get a baby who ends up in here who cannot breath on its own, and then one day you get to see it eat and breath on its own, it is one of the most rewarding experiances."
so ya ever since then i have decided i am going to end up there one day =)
p.s. i have a feeling working with babies might be easier in the sense that they wont complain and try to tell you how to do your job:p
I am taking my prerequisites and after being in the ER for a couple of years and when my kids are older, i too would love to work in the NICU---My neices and my youngest daughter were in Albany Medical Center NICU to which we owe their lives!!! All children are absolutely wonderful with NO problems, and they were so amazing and wonderful to the kids and to us as a family and me as an emotional wreck, i would love to give back to and help other families the way i felt we were helped in ALL aspects, it is very rewarding and I know i have that kind of compasion, its just time now for the education! I am going slowly but surely for my RN, i have a 4-year-old and a 16-month-old. and working PT as a CNA for experience, so i am doing the best i can and trying to get the most out of school my doing my prerequisites first so that i can concentrate fully on my nursing, plus the kids will be a little older (unless i have a third)
i am also a NICU RN wanna-be. I have wanted to do this since volunteering at a NICU in Children's Hospital in New Orleans. I love children and have always known I wanted to work with them in my career. Can't really explain why other than that. No personal experiences here either, just know that I would love to be able to help new babies in such critical condition to improve their health and get a chance to live. Though I know some will not be make it and it will be heartbreaking, I'm sure, just knowing I can help the ones who have a chance at life is satisfying enough.
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I am taking my prerequisites and after being in the ER for a couple of years and when my kids are older, i too would love to work in the NICU---My neices and my youngest daughter were in Albany Medical Center NICU to which we owe their lives!!! All children are absolutely wonderful with NO problems, and they were so amazing and wonderful to the kids and to us as a family and me as an emotional wreck, i would love to give back to and help other families the way i felt we were helped in ALL aspects, it is very rewarding and I know i have that kind of compasion, its just time now for the education! I am going slowly but surely for my RN, i have a 4-year-old and a 16-month-old. and working PT as a CNA for experience, so i am doing the best i can and trying to get the most out of school my doing my prerequisites first so that i can concentrate fully on my nursing, plus the kids will be a little older (unless i have a third)