What made you want to become a nicu nurse?

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Hello,I am a junior in high school, and I would like to become a nice nurse.I love babies,and I know their is a short rage of nicu nurses,so I feel I should go into this department of nursing.I know that being a nice nurse isn't all about snuggling cute babies, and I know it will be stressful. I have a few questions for people who are nicu nurses or wanting to become nicu nurse: When did you decide to become a nicu nurse(did you decide before or after you graduated high school?) What was the main reason you wanted to be a nicu nurse? What advice would you give to a sensitive person going into nicu nursing? What are some of your stories of being in the nicu? How many babies do you take care of? What are your daily duties? What's the best thing about being a nicu nurse? Advice overall about going into nursing? I'm sorry this is a lot of questions, I'm just really curious! :-)

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

I'm not a nice nurse. In fact, I'm pretty grouchy and hard to get along with. I'm also sarcastic and unhelpful. :)

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Oops,sorry I meant nicu nurse:-)

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

When I was taking pre-req classes for nursing school, I had a grandbaby in the NICU. What I saw there made me want to do that as my career. So, all through nursing school, I knew what I wanted to do. It was many, many years after high school! I wish, though, that I had done it back then.

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funny! haha

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Specializes in Neonatal.

I went back to school after having my two daughters. My second daughter was born at 28 weeks and that experience changed me so much that I decided to go back to school to become a Neonatal nurse. I graduated with the BN degree at age 36 , worked in Peds for a year then got a full time job in the NNICU. I have no desire to go anywhere else. I tell my story to parents, just to show them that I have been where they are. I absolutely LOV e my job!

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Specializes in NICU, L&D and ED.

When I started LPN school I thought I wanted to do ED or L&D. I was at my local library and found a book called Baby ER by Ed Humes and read that. After reading that book, that is when I decided I wanted to work in NICU. I have worked ED and L&D as a LPN, currently working as an RN in L&d and I will start in the level III NICU at my current hospital in April.

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I did an internship called "care extenders" in which you rotate through 4 departments over a year. My last assignment was NICU and i immediately fell in love with the premies fighting so hard to survive.

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-BC.

I am one of those rare people in NICU who never set out to do this. When I was in nursing school I really wanted adult ICU. When I graduated, I got a call from the hospital where I had been working asking me if I would be interested in interviewing for a NICU position.

I said yes but was scared out of my mind. I had never set foot in a NICU until about a month after I was hired on (hospital And then new nurse orientation).

I was the only person in my pediatric and L&D rotation who was scared out of their mind. Peds more than labor.

But anyway here I am 4 years later and I really love it.

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