What is the least stressful high paying nursing specialty?

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Please state what you know about 6 figure nursing specialties that are the least stressful

Midwife? Cardiac certification? Ect.

Oh, poppycock. I've been a nurse for decades and have seen maybe one or two of these in my whole life.

Oh, and somebody said legal nurse consulting was lucrative but the courtroom was stressful? 95/100 cases never go to trial, and many LNCs work for law firms and so they never testify, ever. There are many ways to practice in legal nursing, some of which but not all involve being a testifying expert witness. I've been at it for a long time and never once had to testify at trial, though deposition is sworn testimony and i'vecertainly done that. I make an OK living at it but nobody should believe the Vickie Milazzo ads about getting rich. Most of the people who pay her the big bucks don't quit their day jobs for five years or more, if ever. She has figured it out-- yep, it's possible to make big money from legal nursing, but only if your name is VM. For the rest if us--it's work, the money is OK, and you don't know stress until your atty client wants it yesterday a week after he told you he didn't need your case analysis until after Christmas.

Sadly in my experience this is the truth but more so due to the work environment. Our med surg unit is staffed with almost all new grads which is a very bad decision. They haven't yet learned how to stand up to screaming doctors or manage the work load yet leaving them completely frazzled. I know it seems like an exaggeration but it seems like it's daily that someone is requesting to go home sick on a particularly hard day and I have seen many tears and many new nurses resigning. Probably more of a fault to the unit staffing so many new grads than anything else but I have also seen many depressed nurses and cna's in long term care. Think it all voils down to the work environment.
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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Sadly in my experience this is the truth but more so due to the work environment. Our med surg unit is staffed with almost all new grads which is a very bad decision. They haven't yet learned how to stand up to screaming doctors or manage the work load yet leaving them completely frazzled. I know it seems like an exaggeration but it seems like it's daily that someone is requesting to go home sick on a particularly hard day and I have seen many tears and many new nurses resigning. Probably more of a fault to the unit staffing so many new grads than anything else but I have also seen many depressed nurses and cna's in long term care. Think it all voils down to the work environment.

Big time. New grads get thrown to the wolves because they're cheap; old bats get pushed out because we've become expensive. So you have bright young things drowning with no mentorship and patients getting fragmented care. I don't know how long it's going to take the bean counters to connect the dots: staff turnover and poor patient outcomes cost money.

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6 figures and no stress??????????? I just laughed myself into heart palpitations. :roflmao:

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Specializes in Hospice.

Have you tried applying for PCH?

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Trauma ICU or a medicaid/medicare MICU for sure.

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