What is your dream unit?

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If you had the chance to work in ANY specialty, anywhere you wanted, where would it be and why? Which do you day-dream about? The one unit and setting that really makes your heart pound in a good way. Where you whistle as you stroll into work.

Have you already found your dream job?

Let's hear it.

Mine would be pediatric cardiovascular icu. I just think that sounds so dang rad. Pedatrics, and everything critical care entails, is highly appealing to me.

Why do you love your dream specialty?

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What: Flight Nurse. Critical Care Helicopter.

Why: I love high stress situations and they have a ton of time off.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

When I'm off for a long stretch, I literally enjoy going back to work in my MCSNICU. (I know, right! A mouthful!)

Every patient is different, the docs respect us more, I feel like I practice to the top of my license. I love the thrill of a code with a bunch of ICU nurses there.

What I don't like is unnecessary prolonging of life and frequent fliers, but hey.

Decided against NICU, ICUman??

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(What is MCS? Got the NICU part. 😀)

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Specializes in Oncology.

I love working on oncology. However, I would love to get my masters, and volunteer abroad. I found a volunteer organization that has opportunities for oncology nurses to go to Bhutan and teach nurses there. Most of the big name organizations want midwives, community health, HIV, etc.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

I am actually in one this present time. Acute LTACH, complexity, authonomy, tons of things to do, longer stays so you see the results of the good job (or lack thereof) for very real... if only there were more resources, even more acuity, more staff RNs and just a bit less of "certain people" around.

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Specializes in ICU.

Full time rapid response. I think it would just be the best thing ever to be able to swoop in, stabilize people (or not), and swoop back out without having to take care of them for 12 hours.

I meet the minimum qualifications and a position's open at the hospital next door right now, but... still haven't decided if I'm going back to school or not any time soon, and it would screw up my school plans if I took it so I guess I am leaving it alone for now. Ugh, I hate being a grown-up sometimes.

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.

I like the idea of rapid response...but then again, I wouldn't want to be the *only* one because everyone has a bad day with IV's. So, it would be a rapid response "team" with at least 2-3 team members per shift. Really, my dream job is really a dream because I would have done it in the past. Now, my dream is a decent retirement, which won't be easy because I've made some mistakes and didn't realize time flies. Added unsolicited advice: Start your retirement planning early!

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Specializes in ICU.
I like the idea of rapid response...but then again, I wouldn't want to be the *only* one because everyone has a bad day with IV's. So, it would be a rapid response "team" with at least 2-3 team members per shift. Really, my dream job is really a dream because I would have done it in the past. Now, my dream is a decent retirement, which won't be easy because I've made some mistakes and didn't realize time flies. Added unsolicited advice: Start your retirement planning early!

You wouldn't have to worry about peripherals working rapid, necessarily. At my hospital, the people who carry the RAT pager are all checked off on the EZ-IO drills. Someone crashing and has no access? Forget starting a peripheral, just get out the drill and BZZZZT! Instant access through the humerus. :D

I would love to use that dang drill on somebody just once in my life... that just seems like a whole different level of awesome.

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
You wouldn't have to worry about peripherals working rapid, necessarily. At my hospital, the people who carry the RAT pager are all checked off on the EZ-IO drills. Someone crashing and has no access? Forget starting a peripheral, just get out the drill and BZZZZT! Instant access through the humerus. :D

I would love to use that dang drill on somebody just once in my life... that just seems like a whole different level of awesome.

True, true...they usually do have an IV already. I was just thinking of the other day when someone called rapid JUST because they needed an IV on a tough stick. Our rapid response nurse gets called for that a lot. I have no knowledge of this "drill", but it sounds scary. LOL

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Specializes in ICU.
True, true...they usually do have an IV already. I was just thinking of the other day when someone called rapid JUST because they needed an IV on a tough stick. Our rapid response nurse gets called for that a lot. I have no knowledge of this "drill", but it sounds scary. LOL

It's awesome. I got to practice inserting IOs in PALS using both the drill and just manual pressure, and the EZ-IO drill was way more fun. It works just the same way a power drill to put a screw in a wall works, except you're drilling a needle into a bone instead. Looks like this:

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...Okay, I swear I'm done derailing the thread now. :)

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

My dream specialty would be utilization review: it's a desk job with virtually no face time with patients, family members, or direct supervisors watching me.

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