What's your favorite floor

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Specializes in PCCN.

Hey everyone, I thought I would start a discussion about where our favorite places to work are. Do you like fast paced floors like the ER, or do you like slow, outpatient settings? Does anyone have experience in both, and have a recommendation on where I should look for a job? Or just use this as a place to discuss your favorite and least favorite floors to work on.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Forensics, Addictions.

Psychiatry. I have worked on an acute adult unit and now a state forensic hospital. It can be fast-paced or slow. It is definitely my favorite type of nursing.

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I love Post-Partum. Lower acuity, less stress than other specialties I've worked. Don't get me wrong, I work my butt off here too but it is definitely better than other areas I've worked.

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Specializes in ICU.

I love ICUs of any sort. Love all the lines, drains, machinery... love only have two patients... :)

A close second has to be the times as a CNA that I got floated to the hospital's inpatient hospice unit. There is something really peaceful about providing end of life care. I feel like it's a heck of a lot more respectful than ICU and it's nice to see patients getting treated with dignity and their passing honored instead of pumping more tubes in them and breaking some more bones just to see if we can keep that person with end stage COPD and end stage heart failure alive for two more minutes. I think if I didn't like high intensity areas I would really enjoy working inpatient hospice.

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I've worked cardiac, ortho and now for the last 3 years been on the medical floor. I used to love my current job, but lately we've been incredibly short staffed and have extremely high acuity pts. I'm getting burnt out fast.

I've been seriously considering applying for a job on the Short Stay Evaluation Unit. But, I love most of my coworkers, so it's a hard decision. I'm just tired of working in an unsafe environment, where we just don't have enough staff to safely care for our patients.

Someday I'd love to work Hospice. But they never have any full time openings.

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Specializes in Cardiology and ER Nursing.

I love the dance floor.

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Specializes in PCCN.

I just applied for a job that is a clinical evaluation area, and also a chest pain observation area. I am from Florida, and this job is in a smaller hospital in North Carolina. It seems it will be better, that the techs do more than they did for us on my floor, which was a surgical progressive care unit. I'm wondering if I will enjoy the job or not. I am going for a shadow day tomorrow so I guess I will find out :)

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Specializes in Psych/Mental Health.
Psychiatry. I have worked on an acute adult unit and now a state forensic hospital. It can be fast-paced or slow. It is definitely my favorite type of nursing.

I LOVE working psych. Occasionally I think I would like to work ICU, and learn what's involved in detoxing our substance abusers to get them medically stable for our unit. Then I remember how thrilled I am when an extremely paranoid person trusts me, or someone who is borderline uses coping skills I've helped her learn, and doesn't attempt to self harm. I think I will stay on my floor forever :-)

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I like working medical floors the most. I have floated to the cardiac floor, our psych floor (we tech basically if floated there), and the surgical floor, and I definitely prefer our med floors. Now on a weekday, I don't mind floating to inpatient rehab. It!'s a nice change of pace sometimes. lol it's nice having PT/OT working with the patients several hours a day.

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I love ltach.....because it's a little bit of everything. Titrating Neo in one room, discussing a newly prescribed medication for afib in another, confused little old lady with sundowners doing a striptease in my last room! I never know what to expect

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