i would probably say my ideal nursing situation would be to work as a nurse in a private doctors office and/or pregnancy clinic...or to be a nurse teacher! even a nurse who does house calls...that sounds like fun! i would like to do house calls for the disabled or seniors. :heartbeat what about you? what is your ideal nursing job? er? school nurse? psychiatric? travel ? per diem? 3 twelves or 5 eights? goverment? union? corrections? military? legal nursing consultant?etc?
it seems like there are so many options for nurses out there!
(well ignoring our current economic stoop @ least)
Specializes in PCU, Stepdown ICU, Home Health Case Management, ED.
as a new grad my five year plan (dream) is me in a neuro cv icu. trauma 1. another dream is me on a plane (or a bus), visiting tribes and/or towns, helping to treat and teach patients out in the middle of nowhere, roughing it, and learning things about different cultures and people!
Part time professor. ... "Part time" so that I would have time to think, rest, etc. and generally have the "free time" to do things that I want to do rather than have to keep focusing on things other people want me to do. "Professor" so that I would have the rank and privileges that go with it to help me accomplish things I want to accomplish.
I would choose to work on a few hospital-based projects as well as some do some teaching and student advising ... but with more time and more freedom.
Ooooh, me too! Do they really hire nurses? I am in on that one! Maybe even the local minor league baseball team. Hmmmm, got my wheels turnin!
If not that, I would love to work as a patient educator outside of the hospital. I would love to work one on one with families dealing with weight issues and specifically with overweight kids. I am actually considering getting a Master's in clinical nutrition and an RD to accomplish this. But, I really need to pay out the loans from the RN first!
My ideal nursing job is one in which you get to "nurse" 75-80% of the time and a "time wasting form filler outer" only 25-20% of the time, instead of vice versa.
even a nurse who does house calls...that sounds like fun! i would like to do house calls for the disabled or seniors. :heartbeat what about you? what is your ideal nursing job? er? school nurse? psychiatric? travel ? per diem? 3 twelves or 5 eights? goverment? union? corrections? military? legal nursing consultant?etc?
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as a new grad my five year plan (dream) is me in a neuro cv icu. trauma 1. another dream is me on a plane (or a bus), visiting tribes and/or towns, helping to treat and teach patients out in the middle of nowhere, roughing it, and learning things about different cultures and people!