What kind of nursing do you do????

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Ok I'm currently working in a Radiology Special Procedures lab, but in April I will be going to work in the CCU. I have been doing the Radiology gig for 2 and a half years now. Before that I was in the ER for 9 and a half years. I forgot that I used to moonlight in corrections too.

I started in med/surg. for only 9 months

ER for 4 years

chest pain nurse clinician for 1.5 years

just transferred to SICU

will be going to CRNA school next fall.

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12 hour shift (usually ave 14 hrs after charting) overnight med-surg with mixed geriatrics and pre/post surg pts in one of two large city hospitals in Ozland. Nurse-pt ratio at night 1:8-10. Track shoes. Pedometer usually shows 12 miles or more. Often no break and no "lunch". Pay is better at night and there is shift bidding for extra shifts, but feeling a bit burned out after four months there. However, there is usually help when someone has some sleepers but you get a tough draw like one or two transfers from an ICU who shouldn't have left ICU yet (like a "chronic" w/ a trach who starts throwing up after arrival from ICU at 2100 med time). We have one young nurse off to California soon for the sun and much better ratio. I'm a Blue Stater by nature and miss some of the reported benefits of unionization back East.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

So far I have done:

-LTC

-Prison nursing

-ICU

-Miltary nursing

-- -ICU

-- -ER

-- -primary care clinic

-- -and now back to ICU

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Specializes in ED.

I'm applying to work in the ER or Pediatrics, although I think I might like to do psych on the side. If I get a job in peds, I eventually want to do pediatric oncology.

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Hospice. It will be 12 years in February.

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Acute care: Med/Surg which includes: CABG, General Surgery patients, Bariatrics, and whatever else they throw at us. LPN with my own daily assignment with an RN resource nurse to do my pushes. Everything else including all documentation is my responsibility........

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Specializes in surgery/trauma icu, burn icu /neuro icu.

Level 1 trauma--ctr neurosurgical/trauma/srugical/transplant ICU

remember cool heads prevail.

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Specializes in surgery/trauma icu, burn icu /neuro icu.

I often find and are complemented on my ability to refrain from the drama of the day. I dont enroll in conversation with the chatty nurses who want to find out whats going wrong or scandalous in some one elses life. I have been told that I could have the tendency to be cold, yeah so we laugh at some of the circumstances of our traumas but dont we all?

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Specializes in School Nursing.

:wink2: school nursing.....it's the best !

formerly med/surg, some ltc

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Specializes in surgery/trauma icu, burn icu /neuro icu.

icu from the jump, always wanted ER, ICU or Psych working towards CRNA

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Which job did you find the most fulfilling and the most rewarding and why?

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Specializes in Emergency Staff.

My name makes it obvious. I've worked in ER's as an EMT/Tech for the last 12 years before getting my RN this past May, was hired at a Level 2 trauma center in July. Love peds, so may pursue something more in that area too (Peds ER or a PICU preferred).

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