Which is it? Coolest and most glamorous nursing jobs

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I'm betting that this particular post will cause a stir. But I'm curious which nursing profession is considered to be the coolest or most exciting or over all glamorous job in the nursing field. Is it Flight Nursing, TCVPO, Cath Lab, ED, etc.

Don't ask me why I'm just wondering.

I was feeling very glam last week at work. I was helping the CNAs shower a combative resident. He tried to pinch my backside and then said I had a "luscious behind" :)

"get your hands off me" Order for a B 52. But.. that's another thread.

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Specializes in NICU.
Glamorous...hmm...the Real Nursewives of Telemetry, brought to you by LOTS of hairspray, full-on makeup and lashes at 7:00 AM.

Kind of like MTV's "Scrubbing In"?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Oh, OP. You're so cute.

I'm pretty sure whatever job YOURS is, is the coolest.

I, on the other hand, got to administer a soap suds enema the other day.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Without reading any of the other replies... just throwing these out there...

Flight nurse. ER nurse in a Level 1 trauma center. ER nurse in a big

urban hospital in, say, New York, LA, Las Vegas, Detroit, New Orleans.

Level 1 NICU nurse. CCU nurse, Oncology nurse, transplant nurse,

in large teaching hospital. Just about ANY position in one of the very

big prestigious hospitals.

Those will probably get the most "ooohs and ahhhhs", in my

opinion.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Level 1 NICU nurse.

I think you mean Level 4. Level 1 is a stable newborn nursery.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.
I think you mean Level 4. Level 1 is a stable newborn nursery.

Oop, my bad. The place with the sickest babies.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

I am so tired this type of posts.

I am a rehab nurse. Yes, you nurses who work in ER and ICU may save the persons live, but you know what what? I am the person that gives them their life back.

We rehab nurses are the ones the get the pts bladder and bowel control back. We take the person who was a hoywr lift to person who can get up with minimal assist.

We get the pts from being totally dependent on help to being independent.

My job is not glamourous. It's not excitingly.

But I am very proud of what me and my colleagues do.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

I'm very proud of what I do as well. I work on a very small med surge

unit in a very small hospital. I love that I get a lot of one on one with my

patients. I love that I get a lot of compliments. I just... love my job.

Is it "glamorous"? Heck no, but I don't care. I'll trade the love that

I have for my job, over the stress of those "glamour" jobs, any day

of the week.

At the same time, I AM aware, and really OK with, the fact that

not only the lay public, but also many nurses, see the jobs that

I listed above as glamorous. I'm sure the reality is, that they are

NOT.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
I'm betting that this particular post will cause a stir. But I'm curious which nursing profession is considered to be the coolest or most exciting or over all glamorous job in the nursing field. Is it Flight Nursing, TCVPO, Cath Lab, ED, etc.

Don't ask me why I'm just wondering.

Well, since your user name is "flyboy" and the first example of nursing jobs you listed was flight nursing, I'm gonna venture a guess that you might find flight nursing exciting. If you ARE interested in it, keep in mind that it will take years of working in a critical care environment (ICU, ED) to be qualified for a job as a flight nurse.

As for glamour, I wouldn't call flight nursing (or any nursing job) glamorous and would additionally say that glamour is a terrible reason to get into the nursing profession. I don't ascribe to the "nursing is my calling" school of thought, but glamour is still definitely the wrong reason on so many levels.

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Specializes in Critical care.
I am so tired this type of posts.

I am a rehab nurse. Yes, you nurses who work in ER and ICU may save the persons live, but you know what what? I am the person that gives them their life back.

We rehab nurses are the ones the get the pts bladder and bowel control back. We take the person who was a hoywr lift to person who can get up with minimal assist.

We get the pts from being totally dependent on help to being independent.

My job is not glamourous. It's not excitingly.

But I am very proud of what me and my colleagues do.

Please don't think that ICU nurses think they are better. I'm an ICU nurse and I think all nurses are important. The most recent threads have not been started by critical care nurses.

My job really isn't that glamorous- it's a lot of cleaning patients up, turning patients, etc. My oh so "glamorous" job had me sopping up liquid stool and inserting an FMS this past week.

Edit: I would like to add that I'm darn proud and glad for that FMS since it'll save the patient's skin.

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