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.
Specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.
Flight nurse: because it's critical care and in a helicopter. But realistically, probably will never fly because of competition for those jobs.
I have an interview next week for CT surgical stepdown, so hopefully that puts me on that path.
Research nurse: get to play with basic clinical skills, but still collect data, analyze it and follow study protocols. Would be a good combination of several phases of my life.
I so desperately want to move to PACU. I am becoming less genuine with my patient interactions on the floors. It saddens me, and it is emotionally wearing me out. I never want to have to plaster a smile on my face with patients, and that's what I've started doing.
The problem is that I'm currently making a ****-ton of money as a registry nurse. Moving to PACU would require a staff position because of the orientation. I know the OR nurse manager, and I think she would take me on, but it would require a cut in pay to staff. My husband is more nervous than I am, quite frankly. He will retire in two years, and he's freaking out about money. We have half million in his profit sharing, and a lump sum from his pension is another half million, plus about 50k in liquid savings, with another 20 years of working income from me. I just can't make him see that it will be ok!
I did my capstone nursing school rotation in PACU, and I received really good reviews. The charge (my preceptor) often apologized for leaving me alone to recover uncomplicated pts when another patient was going south. I know the flow and what assessments are necessary in that environment. I also know that phase one is no family and pts that are out of it enough to just concentrate on their medical and nursing needs. I need that right now.
I feel as though what made me a good nurse previously is being lost in my current environment. I'm beginning to not like my patients... I'm beginning to go through the motions without any emotional investment in it. I know it's a fine balance, and I was good at balancing for a healthy relationship to my work and my patients. Now, I just don't care.
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:
...Okay, I swear I'm done derailing the thread now. :)
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:
...Okay, I swear I'm done derailing the thread now. :)
The best is when you're putting one in during a code and the drill stops working and just spins and spins slowly into the bone... I almost gagged. Poor patient.
I would go to the OR, cystoscopy. It's day surgery and the patient is in and out within 20 minutes. Everyone takes their hour for lunch because the Dr's don't work during lunch.
The hours are Mon-Thurs 0730-330 or 0800-400. No on call. I had a full time placement there as a student and loved it.
I'd love to work in a CVICU but I'll take Neuro ICU....working on patient with MI, HF, Heart Surgery....My dream job definitely would be ACNP specialized in Cardiac and Neuro if possible.
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.
Poop or get off of the potty!
I couldn't resist
@ ICU Man
I have been working in my dream job in the ED. Soon I will need a new dream job and you've got me thinking... Pedi cardiovascular icu sounds pretty awesome to me! Tiny humans are Intense. I love taking care of them.
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