Which is it? Coolest and most glamorous nursing jobs

[Flyboy17]

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.

[offlabel]

Spouse of a hot New England or California plastic surgeon.

[bgxyrnf, MSN, RN]

I'm sure that being a badass while wearing an Hawaiian shirt defies some law of nature... It simply can't be done.

Hawkeye and Trapper John pulled it off and so can you... though nearby the North Pole? Maybe not.

[JoyD]

I'm a nursing student starting my first hosital job as a PCT at a rehab hospital next week. I'm so nervous but your post helped me to focus back on what a wonderful opportunity it will be to help a patient reach their best potential.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

You want glamour become a character on any number of tv medical dramas. There the nurses don't do much since the main character doctors do everything. Seriously though, I think the fast paced urban ED's and flight nurses are the jobs that seem the most glamorous from the outside but I bet the nurses that actually work those jobs will be quick to correct me.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I miss NoADLs

[Medic/Nurse, BSN, RN]

IThis is such an awesome question? Nothing like me, me, me in nursing to get everyone together.

Glam in up folks! We can do it.

I think every speciality had its own kind of glamour.

I watched a LTC nurse (and occ therapist) go all out advocating for one of their patients this weekend and it was amazeballs to watch. They deserved front covers on magazines — beautiful, glamourous creatures.

The thing is — glamourous is a only a "look". Appearance only. Soft quality.

Being competent, deliberate, and setting high standards of clinical practice for yourself (regardless of speciality is true glamour).

Advocacy is glamourous. Be an advocate for your patients, yourself, your clinical practice and profession. It matters!

***** Here's some FLIGHT NURSE "GLAMOUR" *****

After successfully resuscitating a patient (ROSC, witnessed) and arriving back at base, I would stand at edge of the pad, casually flip up my face shield and remove my helmet and let glamour take over!

I would stand there waiting on my partner, as the rotorwash tousled my long, luxurious mane of strawberry blonde hair, my smoldering eyes told the story — my partner knew to hurry as he had become familiar with my look of longing. My full lips were berry stained and luscious — but, I still had to clear landing and secure shore lines. My flightsuit was fitted against my very full breasts and zipped to the top of my silk lace cami underneath, it did show off my tiny waist too. The flightsuit is a love-hate thing for me. It is supposed to give me some fire protection in the event of of fire if we crash the helicopter — yeah, that's something to think about!! Regardless, it is a uniform and required and I had to make the most of it — a little nomex thread and a seam or three and it fitted so much better. =D

Nursing is so glamorous, I thought as I walked into the hanger to resupply and dispose of the biohazard bag I'm carrying. I'm a lucky girl. I run my hand through my hair — "wow, it's getting so long" I think and add a reminder to get a cut scheduled.

Finally, my partner finds me, "wow, there you are, I've been looking for you, are you ready?". I tell him I am so glad to see him and that, "I've not been able to think of anything else". And we get to it, right there in the hanger. In the helicopter. God, I love this job.

The documentation on this flight is going to massive. We witnessed the arrest and had a return of circulation and consciousness post CPR. Yep, this is the glamorous part. A 50 minute flight produces 2 1/2 hours of flight documentation.

But, I've also got to pee (99 Nurse Problems!) and I'd really like to change to clean dry panties, cami & socks too. Maybe I should just change into a new flightsuit as I feel hot, hot, hot — sweaty, nomex-ass-rot, sweat-rolling-down-your-back-filling-up-your-boots--HOT!

Yay NOMEX!!!!

As nice as my hair looked in the rotorwash it's a stringy, greasy mess now that cries out for a hairbrush and a dose of dry shampoo, as I can't go out of service for a shower just yet. Oh, yeah I'm gonna wash my face & brush my teeth just because. Tho, I really never bothered with deliberate "sexy" makeup as most of my patients could not have cared less. Dying patients focus on weird things, but my glamourous look never mattered. I went for pretty — that was an easy look.

My glamourous job had me working 240 hours a month (2880 yearly/55 hours a week + drive times) and through the year I was doing over 300 hours of continuing education and teaching a year, including direct time with medical director and assessment of clinical competence.

To be clear, my 55 hour weeks had 15 hours driving attached to them. Add 300 hours ConEd = 75 hours weekly.

75 hours a week!!!!

Awesome, glamourous.

Oh yeah, the most glamourous thing that ever happened ----

I had a late call on Thanksgiving morning and it was BAD. Got in, documented, could not shower, but jumped in the car and headed to my sister-in-laws. I was late if I got off on time, now I was really late. The oncoming crew made showering impossible. Damn. Off I go.

I drive 2 hours. I kept a saline flush in a leg pocket of the flight suit and thought that was all that was moving around in it. When I change, I'd usually empty one flightsuit into a clean one (flashlight, gerber tool, $100 cash-credit card-$3 in quarters, saline flush, ink pens, carabiners, rescue blanket, gloves, penlight). It takes a little time, but assures I have the things I need with me. I was in such a hurry to get out of the base and get to my family I wore the flightsuit I had on for the late flight out. In my car I did put down a sheet, tho. I didn't think I had blood on me or anything at that point, but Ewwww.

I get to my SIL, head to the shower, strip out of the suit and there was a piece of the patient's leg bone in the bottom leg pocket of flightsuit. It was hanging out with the saline flush — poking against my boot.

Holy Mother of Dog.

I'm standing in my sister-in-laws guest bath holding a 4" piece of a leg bone from the patient I flew last. Now what? It's Thanksgiving.

I wrap that sucker up like a used Kotex in toilet paper and toss it in the trash and never speak of it.

What a great job! How many nurses stand naked trying to get in the shower almost in a panic having inadvertently taken home a piece of a patients leg bone. I red bag my flightsuit and scrub myself.

Pure glamour, I say.

[downsouthlaff, LPN]

Long term care! 😁! Floor Nurse for 3 years and love every minute of it !

[Argo]

None of them...

[Buddy Christ]

being a CNA at an understaffed nursing home

[KeepinitrealCCRN]

SICU is the "coolest" but also they least glamorous.

[kp2016]

Back when I was a young nurse it was anything life and death, the higher the stress and pressure the more I liked it. These days it's whatever has the best hours and working conditions for a reasonable pay. With hindsight working crazy hours with unsafe patient ratios just reinforces to management that this kind of work load is acceptable.

Sorry if this wasn't the sort of answer you were looking for. I'm willing to admit when I was a young nurse I was all about the "glamor" of working ER and thought certain jobs were somehow "less" important than the crazy busy critical care style units. I now see that my ego just had me working like crazy for exactly the same pay as those jobs I considered "less" than mine- foolish young me!

[GSDlvrRN, MSN]

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.

Isn't the answer a matter of opinion? I feel like "coolest" and "glamorous" are immature ways to describe a job.