Where do you want to work once you're done

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just curious?

Oncology unit

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No idea. I will have my LPN by the end of this year, but assuming I am not burned out beyond wanting to continue and my husband still has a job, I'm going to continue on to get my RN. I literally have no idea from day to day what I want to do.

Some days I want to work pre-partum, some days I want to work LTC, some days I want to be a school nurse, some days I want to work psych, ER, ICUs.... Some days I just want to go home and sit on the couch eating bon bons and watching tv for the next 10 years. I really dont know. I am so overwhelmed with the day by day of working and going to school and taking care of my family that I have trouble thinking about the future much. Sometimes the horror of thinking about someone's tragedy hits to my core and I want to run and hide somewhere and cover my ears. Then another time, I walk out of surgery or a LTC patient's room or an ER rotation so high off adrenylin or so warmed by knowing I made a difference that I can't imagine spending my life anywhere else but there. And then there are the days where I shadow a non-nursing department like radiology and go home and start looking to see if there is a radiology-nurse type degree out there somewhere. (they really shouldnt have us shadow departments that dont use nurses lol, they may end up losing students :) )

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I would love to work ER or trauma, but once I graduate I think I'll do Med-Surg. That way I can master my basic skills before doing something more advance

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I think I would like to expand my horizons, as one might say,,, but will probably stay where I am in long term care.....

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I'm thinking - LTC, Rehab or Ortho. But I haven't started nursing school yet so this is subject to change. I'm not 100% sure on what specialty I want, but I know the one thing I don't want is to be a graduate nurse beating my head against the wall if hospital new grad programs happen to be on shortage when I graduate so I'm keeping my options wide open in order to avoid that.

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I honestly don't know. Before I got into school I always thought LTC, but I'm keeping an open mind as I go through my rotations so that I can make a better decision based on what I see and experience.

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my dreams jobs are the NICU or pedi med-surg. had to drag me kicking & screaming out of my pediatric clinicals, i think my nail marks are still on the wall...:p

cannot wait to get back there.

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ER or ICU

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I said a whole bunch of places in my last post, but at this point, I don't want to work anywhere (atleast not right away). I need a break! :)

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-BC.

No doubt about it, I want to work in ICU

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Onco. But I will work anywhere I can get a job right out of school!!!

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Specializes in neurology, cardiology, ED.

I thought ER, but right now I am loving my clinicals in Neuro ICU, which is good, 'cause they offered me a job there, and I accepted!!

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