What are your ultimate goals?

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Just curious...After you graduate and have your career, where do you want to be exactly? I am on the fence right now, but I am leaning towards labor and delivery. Whats everyone elses and why? Id love to get different ideas and point of views :)

Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Graduate May with BSN. Start in Med/Surg or ICU, work there for two years. Part-time DNP/Adult Acute Care. Probably PhD.

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I'm going to be a Holistic Nurse! I have always been into natural and holistic health. I even went to massage school so I can work as a massage therapist while I'm in the prerequisites phase of school. I think Western medicine is absolutely necessary in many cases (such as when people are ill enough that they have to be in a hospital), but it's time to also address people's lifestyles, emotional health, etc... it's really important to treat the whole person as much as we can. There is room and a need for both approaches. I was thrilled to stumble across the Holistic Nurses Association! That is going to be me! I plan to get my BSN after RN, and if I still crave more learning, I'll go for NP.

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I would love to be a hospice nurse someday ... Currently I work in a teaching hospital on the trauma floor which is always interesting ... But I love helping care for comfort care pts. Although some days I think about being a school nurse .. Or L&D ... Ya never know...

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My goal is to have a job right now, to have a job offer next month,,on january 2013 to be exact. A new year to start my new career as an RN in the right facility/hospital with the right people and right policies wherein i can maximize my skills and i will learn a lot.

I also want to be an Oncology nurse, that is one of my ultimate goal also.

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I'm so excited for clinicals this coming semester; I'm keeping an open mind! I want to work in addictions, corrections, and adolescent psych but I'm definitely not limiting myself to those areas. My aunt started out as a LTC nurse, but somehow ended up a dialysis nurse...and she loves it!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Right now I would like to end up in ICU, Cardiac, or Peds. I plan to take at least 5 years after graduation to get experience and to figure out what area I want to be in then go back to school for either my NP or CNS. I lied, I plan to take 5 years to pay off my undergrad loans so I have a fresh start on loans when I go to grad school ;)

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Graduate with honors from my nursing school....get my "dream job" in either NICU or SICU....accepted into CRNA school that awards a DNP. Sounds so nice crossing my fingers I accomplish it and more :-)

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My grandmother died of a heart attack at the age of 64. To me that was way too soon. She was still young! Especially in this decade, where people are living way into their 80's. After her death, I decided that my specialty would be cardiology. I want to be a cardiac nurse. More than likely, I will work in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. If not there, then I will work in Cardiac Step Down or Cardiovascular Holding. Heart Disease is the leading killer of Americans and it is very serious. I want to better educate people on how to exercise & eat healthy so we can fight this together! Heart Disease is real and deadly so I plan to dedicate my life to helping people whom suffer from it. I use to want to be an operating room nurse but I hung that up because I realized it was only because I had watched one too many episodes of Grey's Anatomy . Lol. They make everything look exciting. I use to want to be an emergency room nurse or a trauma nurse but that struck out. I realized that I don't work that well under extreme pressure. The triage needs to be initiated by someone who is very efficient at time management and crucial decision making while under loads of pressure. I'm not there yet. Lol :)

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1). Bring GPA up from 3.31 to 3.5.

2). Maintain 3.5

3). Graduate with honors

4). Work a few years

5). Hopefully get married

6). Get my DNP

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I want to move up north so I will def be applying like crazy when its almost time for me to graduate. Also I want to do labor and deliver just because I love babies but Im leaning more towards neonatal nurse .My ULTIMATE go though is to become a physician assistant.

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I just got accepted for the spring program starting January 7th and can NOT wait!! That was my biggest BUMP in starting this journey but I've always had an interest in the "ER trauma" documentaries on TV, as well as L&D (always amaze me) so I def want to experience those fields to see if I really want to do it.

Just recently, I got hired as an Oncology NT at a hospital an the irony of it all is that my mom was diagnosed with Breast cancer (stage II, triple negative) 2 months before I randomly got this call after attending a job fair for a hospital, didn't apply for the floor or anything. Before getting this job and finding out my moms dx, my cousin who works at a hotel randomly grabbed me info packets from a nurse convention an guess what the topic was.....Oncology!! (coincidence? or calling?) Thus far I love it! :) An I know I never would have even considered Oncology beforehand but this just might BE my calling :) Ultimately, I'm going to get my BSN--> MSN an possibly CRNA.. We'll see!! :) good luck everyone!

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