Whats your perfect fit!!!!!

brownbook · Mar 6, 2018

Boring basic med/surg exposes you to a little bit of everything and builds up your basic nursing skills.

Others will tell you to avoid float pools like the plague. But it's a great way to learn about other units.

My second job, after one whole year of experience doing part time floating, didn't have a dedicated float pool but I always volunteered to float off my assigned unit when census and staffing needs changed. I love the float pool.

Crush · Mar 6, 2018

Start out on a general med floor or med-surg. You'll get a bit of it all and build skills you can use in other areas.

Davey Do · Mar 6, 2018

what is a good way to go about finding the area of nursing that is the best fit and how long did it take for you to know what you best fit was?

"The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling."

-Seneca, 4 B.C. 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

I did not find psych, my area of nursing, but instead, psych found me.

3 months after graduating as an LPN, I was hired by the hospital where I did my clinicals for their new psych unit. As you can tell from my experience, I worked in several areas of nursing, but always ended back up in psych.

For example, in 1993, a couple of months after starting the position as a nursing supervisor for a home health agency, I was asked to initiate and supervise an at home mental health program.

As a home health nurse, I discharged my last totally medical patient over 20 years ago.

It took me over ten years before I stopped being dragged by the fates and finally allowed the fates to lead me.

Triddin · Mar 6, 2018

I shadowed in icu for a day in my own time to make sure it was something I was really interested in. Also helped with me getting hired there after

RockinNurse2018 · Mar 8, 2018

Still haven't found mine. It's hard to do so when the only job offers you get are from LTC and home health care jobs

KelRN215, BSN, RN · Mar 8, 2018

I just always knew that, for me, it was pediatrics. Eleven years in and I can't imagine ever doing anything else. The beauty of it is that nursing is so broad and diverse that you can work in multiple different areas within your specialty. Within peds, I have done acute care neuro, home health general peds which was primarily oncology with some other things thrown in, per diem high school, home infusion liaison at a pediatric hospital and I recently started a new position working with medically complex children in the foster care system.