What's your dream nursing job?

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What's your dream nursing job?

Nothing wrong with dreaming ... right?

  1. Education credits paid 100%.
  2. No Weekends or holidays
  3. 2 hour lunch
  4. 6 - figure salary
  5. Paid 10 weeks vacation

What's your dream job?

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Specializes in LTC.

Higher pay, decent health insurance, and PTO.

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Specializes in Long term care.

work three days a week, good health insurance, PTO 

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I am looking for advice on the dream job. I am 3yr nurse and have worked primarily in family med/procedural nursing straight from school. I feel like I have a dream job, I currently work as a nurse (wear all hats) at a private practice who model is direct primary care (no insurance, monthly fee to the doctors only). I love my job and feel very luckily but there are times where I am itching to be more of an urgent setting (past hx of ocean lifeguarding/EMT). On the other hand I could see myself in the long term at my current place of work, specially for when I start to have a family.

Currently:

M-F 830am-5pm,1 hour lunch (Downtown in a Major city)

Salaried paid, around the hospital pay.

2 weeks paid vacation, Bank holidays, 2 days off during Christmas, Thanksgiving and New years. 

Company paid total insurance/dental/vision

Yearly bonus, paid license and CE's 

Small office, no hierarchy or over head, Teaching/training time from the doctors, patients are pleasant, Flexible time off.

So what do people think, am I crazy? 

 

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all of the above plus asynchronous work from home ??

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Specializes in Critical Care.
NicoleRN707 said:

I am looking for advice on the dream job. I am 3yr nurse and have worked primarily in family med/procedural nursing straight from school. I feel like I have a dream job, I currently work as a nurse (wear all hats) at a private practice who model is direct primary care (no insurance, monthly fee to the doctors only). I love my job and feel very luckily but there are times where I am itching to be more of an urgent setting (past hx of ocean lifeguarding/EMT). On the other hand I could see myself in the long term at my current place of work, specially for when I start to have a family.

Currently:

M-F 830am-5pm,1 hour lunch (Downtown in a Major city)

Salaried paid, around the hospital pay.

2 weeks paid vacation, Bank holidays, 2 days off during Christmas, Thanksgiving and New years. 

Company paid total insurance/dental/vision

Yearly bonus, paid license and CE's 

Small office, no hierarchy or over head, Teaching/training time from the doctors, patients are pleasant, Flexible time off.

So what do people think, am I crazy?

I wouldn't be in a hurry to walk away from that!  Good jobs are few and far between in nursing.  If I had such a cushy job I'd probably still be working, whereas the stress and working conditions were so bad in the hospital I quit and retired early. 

You can read all about the problems in hospitals and nursing homes here on allnurses.  I'd think twice before walking away from such a sweet gig!

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Specializes in NICU.

Health care insurance with secondary paid after retirement and life insurance paid even after retirement. Yes [other jobs offer that ]No floating,no rotation to nights,continuing education or loan forgiveness.Same salary as CEO, attend meetings all day,Zoom from home.No see thru white pants with thongs permitted.Free parking.

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Specializes in Emergency.

My inpatient dream: No more than 4 patients in M/S, plenty of CNA's, an LPN assigned to every RN. A "provider" on every unit full time for collaboration. 

ED dream: 1 Emergency Services Tech per 8 rooms, minimum. More would be better. (All phlebotomy certified a plus!) Two or three "zoomers" on at the designated busy times. Usually from 11 am to midnight or so. 1200-0000 would work. 

End of stupid "Mission Statement" emails from upper management. 

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an accountant

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Retired.

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Specializes in Psychiatric, in school for PMHNP..

I am semi-retired, but I  don’t want to stop Nursing completely. I work PRN now, but the shifts are 12 1/2 hours. At my age, that is a long day, and I hate getting up at 4:30 in the morning to be there at 6 am.  
 

My dream job would be two eight-hour shifts a week, any days of the week.  My shifts would start at 10 am.  I would also love to work from home!  

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Specializes in BLS, ACLS, CARDIAC, ER.

6 figure salary

No weekends or on call with base rate pay

5 weeks paid vacation

Ability to work remote

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