What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

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I thought this might be interesting to find out. Please include a reason, be it a bad clinical experience as a student, fear, lack of excitement, too chaotic, etc.

For me it would have to be the NICU. Don't get me wrong, I love babies. My problem would come the first time I saw an addict come to see her baby. I would lose my professionalism instantly. So I'm thinking it best to stay away from such a situation.

I would never do LTC, just not my thing I dont want to take part in crappy care!! I am a ER nurse and love it, so I get a little of everything everyday. I also do peds home care one day a week and it is a good mix for me. I get to see a ton of pateitns everyday in the ER and get to take care of one sweet littel girl for 8 hours a week.

Whoa, girl! I just read your response. Not everyone who works in long term care gets or gives crappy care as you stated. I don't work in LTC, but I know there are good people out there.

As far as any other area of nursing, we can find "crappy" people everywhere. It is our job to bring them up.

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I had a friend who worked in a large hospital at a burn unit and I don't know how she did it for years. I took care of one patient with a small area of 3rd degree burns and I just couldn't scrub the skin off him. It was the amount of pain he was in that got me. Not the smell or the looks but the pain.

I love working on my burn unit! When it comes to pain, Vitamin M (morphine) and Vitamin A (Ativan) work wonders.

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LTC.

I fill in part-time at the LTC facility owned by the health system I work for. It is a wonderful place, I used to work there as a CNA, and I love the residents. The staff really care for the residents and treat them like family. Many staff have had their own parents and grandparents come to live there. It is one of the friendliest places I have ever worked. Nothing "crappy" whatsoever about the care given there. I would live there myself if I were 70 years older and needed to!

BUT. and you knew there was a big fat BUT. :p the paperwork is outrageous. very little autonomy available. very minimal staffing. I am uncomfortable with most of the direct care being performed by CNAs, only because I have absolutely no time to verify their work, and they are still giving care under my license. I absolutely trust the aides that work there, and have never had a specific problem. It is just a general work situation I am uneasy with, to say the least.

I like to have fewer patients (5 or 6 on Med Surg, 2 or 3 in CCU) and really know what is going on with them, know the whole picture, be able to put things together quickly. This kind of goes along with my wanting to be an RN, not an MD (that's another thread! :rotfl: ) - I want to be the one giving direct care. I don't want to be the overseer.

now that you mention it, I don't want to supervise or manage a dept or anything like that either! give me a good vent + swan + multiple drips etc. any day!

peace,

Kori

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I thought this might be interesting to find out. Please include a reason, be it a bad clinical experience as a student, fear, lack of excitement, too chaotic, etc.

For me it would have to be the NICU. Don't get me wrong, I love babies. My problem would come the first time I saw an addict come to see her baby. I would lose my professionalism instantly. So I'm thinking it best to stay away from such a situation.

so true I have a hard enough time with them in er I can't imagine in th nicu

kerry

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No psch, No Med-Surg, no office nursing (can't imagine actually working for the docs, even though they think we do in the hosital), no bariatric surgery unit (hard work and not enough variety), or worst of all nursing informatics (I'd like to think of the meditech system as one huge nightmare). I' ll stick to OB.

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No psch, No Med-Surg, no office nursing (can't imagine actually working for the docs, even though they think we do in the hosital), no bariatric surgery unit (hard work and not enough variety), or worst of all nursing informatics (I'd like to think of the meditech system as one huge nightmare). I' ll stick to OB.

i cant imagine ob at this point when they come into er we want them up to ob pronto of course they always come in screaming i cant be pregnant and when checking we tell them that head of hair is not their own and then the fun begins or its the 11-and up who think they will never get pregnant and when you ask if they are monogamous (sp) they don't even know what that means argh

kerry

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Right now I would definately have to say, nurse management!!! I am just simply too much of a person who likes to do things my own way! Our nurse managers have to do things EXACTLY, EXACTLY how upper management wants them done, or else. Our longtime OB manager just recently got asked to resign from her position. Plus, I think you have to be SO incredibly organized to do that job (I am NOT), and have to do SO much paperwork!

Also, I don't think I would ever want to work in a nursing home for varying reasons... and though I love babies, I have almost zero interest in doing OB.

I take care of some Peds on the floor that I work on, but stressed-out parents do make it hard indeed.

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Specializes in ABMT.

I like this thread.

-pediatric psych scares me. It just doesn't seem like those kids have very good outcomes.

-anything trauma. :uhoh21: No thanks.

-for some reason, renal/dialysis pts scare me a little. It seems like a really unhappy population, overall.

-I could absolutely live without working cardiac stepdown. Husband spent a lot of time on an inpt cardiac unit as a pt and I just didn't dig the middle-aged guys making jokes about the pretty nurses giving them baths. Um, no. Not really the demographic I like to work with.

-plastic surgery. I have never been exposed to it at all, but I think I have a prejudice about plastic surgery being superfluous (except I know sometimes it's not, I know) so I'm probably not the best person to work in that setting.

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i had a friend who worked in a large hospital at a burn unit and i don't know how she did it for years. i took care of one patient with a small area of 3rd degree burns and i just couldn't scrub the skin off him. it was the amount of pain he was in that got me. not the smell or the looks but the pain.

you know, i don't think i'd want to work in a burn unit, but i don't mind doing burn surgery, grafts, and such. the only thing i find difficult about it is handling the extremely sharp and nasty blades. that, and the room is extremely hot (to keep pt at temperature to prevent infection). thankfully, the pain side of the equation is never an issue since the pt is usually intubated and heavily sedated when they get to me.

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Specializes in Tele, Infectious Disease, OHN.

Defiantely orthopedics. Bad student experiences, bad nurse tech experiences. Grumpy patients in pain and lots of big equipment!!

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Specializes in ICU.

I would say any sort of peds---I have a three year old daughter and all through nursing school anytime I had pedi patients I would come home and check my daughter out. If she would cough (just barely) I would pull out my stethoscope and not only listen to her but do a full head to toe assessment! Call it crazy but I had seen the sick ones!

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peds i love the little ones...but i too would absolutely lose it on an abusive parent, or god forbid a molester! i don't trust myself to handle it professionally. :angryfire

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