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 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.
This is a brave thing for a nurse to say. Thanks for being candid. Know that you are not the only one in this position. I too am sorta stuck because hubby can't see past the $$$ that I pull in. I would seriously take a $10/hr paycut to not hate my job so much. Hang in there and do like all good wives. Wear him down over time. I should get paroled by Christmas.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
I love where I am right now. Onc/Palliative. I enjoy working with the palliative care patients. I find it fulfilling, and I really enjoy working with the families. And I like the onc side of things. We have our "family", patients who are in and out due to neutropenic fever, chemo and of course our sickle cellers. I enjoy working with them.
I am eventually going to get my NP, and hope to work either Onc or Palliative.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
I've taken a recent interest in peds oncology.
Not sure why, still exploring that.
In nursing school, I was one of the lucky few who got to do a rotation in Peds Hem/Onc. I have to say that was the best clinical I had. There is something special about the children. The facility I work at does't have Peds Hem/Onc because the children's hospital in the next county has it. And I won't work for that facility. But, I did so enjoy that patient population.
In nursing school, I was one of the lucky few who got to do a rotation in Peds Hem/Onc. I have to say that was the best clinical I had. There is something special about the children. The facility I work at does't have Peds Hem/Onc because the children's hospital in the next county has it. And I won't work for that facility. But, I did so enjoy that patient population.
Me too. It was the one time I passed out in all my nursing.
I did adult Heme/Onc for 23 years and loved it. Before I got married I seriously thought of moving to work at St Jude's Childrens, but never did it. I would go back without a question if I went back to floor nursing (and am seriously considering it in the next few years as I slow down towards retirement.)
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This is a brave thing for a nurse to say. Thanks for being candid. Know that you are not the only one in this position. I too am sorta stuck because hubby can't see past the $$$ that I pull in. I would seriously take a $10/hr paycut to not hate my job so much. Hang in there and do like all good wives. Wear him down over time. I should get paroled by Christmas.