What kind of nurse are you?

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What is your area of nursing and what made you go into this field? Do you love it or hate it?

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Specializes in Med/Surg and ANCC RN-BC.

Right now i'm in med/surg. it's okay, but not my ideal dream job. I would love to be a mom/baby nurse or nicu nurse.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I work on a telemetry unit. We see some med-surg patients, too.

I rotated through here when I was in nursing school and fell completely in love with cardiac nursing. I was recruited to work here before I even graduated, and I know I am very fortunate. I love it here.

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LTC..

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I'm a staff nurse in pediatrics on a surgical ward, contemplating PICU. I love my unit - especially neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. We see about 6 or 7 other surgical services as well. Kids are so resilient and people ask me how I deal with families, and often they are the ones who notice that their child is in pain, or their chest tube isn't draining, or turn and position them!

I started out with adults on an orthopedic surgery and trauma unit and worked there for a year as a new grad nurse (they lured me in while I was a student there). It was a good experience and built up confidence and an attitude for dealing with difficult patients and situations (many criminals handcuffed to the bed, psych patients and 'heavy' trauma patients) but in the end, I was miserable and knew I wanted peds. I would never go back!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

After a long, discouraging slog in LTC. I'm now working home health. I have 2 pediatric private duty clients. I've wanted to do home health since day 1, and I love dealing with only 1 patient at at time.

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

now i'm inactive, retired, have a lapsed license, because i had a stroke resulting from congenital aneurysms, two of which were discovered and repaired and one of which ruptured.

i had been a psych nurse and supervisor. i applied for the psych position originally because i absolutely hated ortho, which had been my first job as a nurse. i would have scrubbed the floor

on my hands and knees to get off the ortho floor.

once i made the switch and adjusted, i absolutely loved it. it was wonderful having the time to talk with my patients and find out what was going on inside their heads instead of assessing toe color, capillary fill and function, redo icebags, listen to visitors whine and whine.

people certainly moaned and ******* in psych, but it seemed different somehow. it was certainly a whole new bunch of meds to give and become familiar with!

wouldi go back if i were ever able? in a heartbeat!

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

A surgical ward nurse. Hepato-billary and colorectal centre for the state of Victoria. We get the sick, complex patients that country and smaller hospitals would not touch with a barge pole. Huge medical co-morbidities. If they were operated on in a smaller hospital they would be in ICU for 10 days - here one or two and them off to us.

I spent a huge chunk of my 4th year placement on a surgical ward in Ireland and fell in love with the work. They come in sick and leave usually a heck of a lot better - well until they start chemo :) They come back post op or ICU and are ill, in pain and frightened. We have a great team of surgeons, pain service, physios and nurses who all work to treat the patient together to get them back on their feet. And educate them and their family.

When I moved to Melbourne I worked initially in a over 65's medical assessment unit which was just like a revolving door. Come in ill, fix, go home, get sick, back in two weeks later. Mainly because most of them needed to be in a nursing home and their families refused to do it. It frustrated me to the hilt. I got back to surgical after six months!

Where I work now is hard, demanding and very rewarding. Most days I love it and we have a great staff who all have high standards and the grads that rotate through often have to step up their care to fit in.

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Home Health nurse for the last 2 years. Intermittent visits. I LOVE it, but it's not for everybody. This was after 5 years of nursing jobs I did not love. I went into Nursing because I took a college job compatibility quiz that listed nursing as one of the top few and it is a stable profession with many career opportunities and choices.

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Specializes in mental health, aged care/disability care.

I'm about to become an aged care nurse. This is not my ideal position but it pays a wage and gives me desperately needed experience - I'm a newbie.

I would love to work in mental health but I think that's a little while off at this point :crying2:

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Job #1: part-time weekends at a LTC facility (nursing home)

Job #2: PRN at a small, freestanding rehabilitation hospital

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Specializes in LTC, OB, Mother Baby.

My first nursing job was in a rehab facility which I hated going to every day, even to the point of crying before every shift! This only lasted 5 months!! Now I work in Mom/baby and absolutely love it.:redbeathe Keep an open mind and go after the job you really want!

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