One very rewarding career and nursing I’ve found to be mental health, psych nurse, addiction and homelessness. I work in a crisis center that helps population experience, insane, experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, and sometimes all of them combined. It’s a true way to understand human nature and if you are a nurse in human behavior nursing is your calling challenging very rewarding working with The mind
I'm a home health and hospice nurse recently just hospice due to company changes. I love my job because I get to reach people in their comfort zone and teach and share love and conversation to caregivers and patience and rural Mississippi. When I go to work my patience and patient caregivers are happy to see me which makes my job not feel like a job.
Med/surg!
I know its "run of the mill," and "where everyone starts out," but I guess I just love the "go go go" of it.
I start my night at 7pm, get reportl look up my patients, and answer call lights/introduce my self until 8pm. Then I start my med pass and evening dressing changes etc., and before I know it, its 10pm and I need to hurry up and finish because I'll be picking up 2 more patients at 11pm.
At 11pm I get report on those 2 patients and then start my assessments on them so they aren't too upset that I woke them so late. Sometimes, I will wait if I know they will need to be toileted or turned.
Between doing that, and answering lights, helping my co-workers , and charting, before I know it, its 4am and need to prep on my morning meds and finish up my chariting.
Then between 5-7am is passing meds and morning cares again. And I'm giving report on my 6-8 patients from 7-730am.
And thats nights I'm not charge, which I usually am so throw in some extra responsobilities, aswering the nurses station phone as much as possible, and attending a staffing meeting at 1:30am in there, and I swear that the night literally flies by.
All that is on days that nothing out of the ordinary happens, everyones patient's are stable, and there are no rapids or codes. Those make it go even faster.
But I don't just love it because it goes by fast. I love it because I get to practice a wide variety of skills, see a variety of conditions. I have a patient right now that is the oldest known person in the world with his form of cystic fibrosis. You get to see and do some really cool $h!t. And some not so cool $h!t, and lots of actual $h!t, but its all part of the package and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Cath Lab
ER Level 1 Trauma
Flight nursing :)
Telehealth Remote
Hospice
Community mental health.
Pediatric Hematology Oncology! You get to help save lives every day!
Oncology
Cardiology/Cath Lab
Nursing is a tough job. Violence in the workplace against nurses by patients is becoming very common. Please think very hard before you enter Nursing school.
LPN Pediatric High Tech Homecare
Float pool. The best of most worlds and no drama
Labor and Delivery, nursing informatics
School Community Health Nurse
Kidney Transplant. Such an amazing field.
Hospice
Pediatric dialysis, both outpatient and acute. And we’re hiring!!
Emergency Department
Emergency 😍😍
I work in community mental health and I LOVE IT! We have a small team of 5 nurses and we work so well together. I manage all of the psych injections and do clinic with the providers. I have been here for just about 5 years with no plan to leave.
E.D. Trauma
Behavioral health
Dialysis
PICC nurse! Vascular Access
Case mft
Geriatrics is an excellent specialty, I have felt comfortable working there.
I have been a nurse for almost 40 years and have worked in several different areas and hospitals including float pool. I have been in outpatient surgery since 1999. I love what I do. Fast paced, teamwork, often tight budgets, $ lower than hospitals.
The rewards are work/ family life balance, transition from full time to part-time to full time.
I recommend doing some type of critical care for several years first. Everything goes well until it doesn’t. You need excellent assessment skills and independence.
Great specialty!
I work in telemedicine and remotely. I enjoy it about 95% of the time. Why/when I don’t is because of nasty people on the phone with me. My job is challenging and I don’t have to ‘keep’ a patient for 12 hours! I’ve been doing this job since 2005.
Perianesthesia
Outpatient wound and Ostomy clinic
O.R.
I was a float nurse for several years (I totally loved it). Then I went in to Homecare & Hospice (loved that too), Now I am a nurse educator-- training the next generation of nurses.
Women’s Health - Mother/Baby
Pediatric ED 🥰
PACU
Currently retired from 30 plus years of nursing and ambulatory surgery and neurology..
Hi there!! I’m a long time dialysis nurse as an LPN, newly graduate of Registered Nurse! I’ve been in dialysis since 1997.
Progressive medical care unit ,RN
Home care skilled nursing, no burn out, have time for my family and pays very well
I worked in many Critical Care areas bouncing around for the first 10-12 years..then I fell into Home Health & Hospice…remained there for 35 years..became Wound Care Certified..it allows 1-1 interaction with patients and family and allows you to really think independently..The paperwork is a bear but what isn’t these days? At 71 I still work Per Diem when I can..
ICU, POCU
House Supervisor
Oncology
Emergency Department
I am new here
ICU
Pediatrics / nurse educator /utilization management coordinator
I am working in a call center
Psychiatric/ Mental Health
Supervisor in skilled nursing
Home Health
Long Term Care ❤️🩹
MedicallyFragile Children and,I have worked this area for 8 years. One client in there home.
Ambulatory care, telehealth only.
Special needs pediatrics home health
Urology. It’s a surprise to me too.
Surgery/OR
Geriatrics
Travel nurse critical care, progressive care, telemetry! Trying out some pediatrics as well!!
Perioperative nurse ( Operating Room)
transfer coordinator and telemedicine
Mental health
Medsurg
Public Health Nursing
