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.
I really want to get into the VA eventually. I love my vets & also enjoy the older adult/geriatric population. I also think a geriatric ED sounds awesome because I am currently working in the ED & love how fast paced it is, but love the geriatric focus in this new type of unit. Unfortunately, the state I live in hardly has VA openings and has no geriatric EDs.
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.
Yep.. and we work from home in our jammies.However, it is highly scrutinized. Any wrong decision will bring Hades to pay. It requires applying a complex set of business rules, as applied to Medicare and compliance with all of the regulatory bodies. Not as easy as it appears.
Once I'm done with school, my dream job is getting credentialed as a sexual assault nurse examiner and working in a rural ER.
I also love orthopedics and would love doing anything in that capacity, really. I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to see/do so many things already as a CNA.
I'm pretty satisfied with my Public Health Nurse job in a huge prison but, I always seem think about Doctors without Borders or working as a nurse on an Indian Reservation.
I HATE adult med-surg. I fell in love with NICU in nursing school, but everybody said you have to pay your dues in MS. So I have.
I hate every day I go to work. I have applied to NICU, had great interviews. But they choose to hire in-house and new grads. I'm so bitter, so mad. I feel like I'm now stuck dealing with the worst of the worst. And it was not my choice.
I love working on my medicine unit, just the right amount of busy but not overwhelming.
Ideally I would love to be nursing on a cruise. I know a lot of people says its a lot of work, but just the fact you can travel makes it very appealing
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I really want to get into the VA eventually. I love my vets & also enjoy the older adult/geriatric population. I also think a geriatric ED sounds awesome because I am currently working in the ED & love how fast paced it is, but love the geriatric focus in this new type of unit. Unfortunately, the state I live in hardly has VA openings and has no geriatric EDs.