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I’ve never been one to sit still.
My blog and it’s activities should give you a small taste of what my life can be like. I truly never set out to run through the revolving doors. It just seems to happen that way.
I love being nurse. I love the opportunities it has afforded me. Since my inception into this career I have learned a great deal about the field of nursing, learned a great deal about myself, and learned a great deal about where ‘my’ nursing fits.
Here’s what I’ve learned so far about me and me being a nurse:
I DO NOT WANT
- Work on a med-surg unit (A league of their own – my hats off to them; I could never do it)
- Work as a nurse manager
- Work nights (avoiding this as best as possible)
- Down time at my job (being super slow)
- Work as an OR nurse
- To-Be-Bored!
- Lose my critical care skills
- Talked down to, or demeaned by physicians
- Co-workers who refuse to grow up
- Drama
- Back-stabbing
- High school antics at work
- Worry about getting full-time hours or full-time benefits
- Worry about insurance
- Limit my options or opportunities
- An environment that is not team-oriented
- Disrespectful colleagues
- Drive FOREVER to work
- Travel nursing – at least not at this point in our life (my wife and I).
I DO WANT
- Anything ICU
- Utilize my CCRN certification
- Utilize my critical care skills
- Challenging work
- Taxing work
- Being busy
- Work with and be respected by physicians
- A place I can call home
- Learn
- Diversity
- Team environment
- Teaching-hospital type environment (Big-City Hospital)
- Increased opportunity for advancement
So with that in mind. I have decided to leave my current position in the PACU and return to the ICU. I have accepted a Surgical ICU position in a Big City Hospital. It will be a return to the original scenario I left just less than a year ago, but in the end the benefits outweigh my concerns. I’m meant for that environment. The bigger, the busier… the better.
I have oh-so missed the ICU bedside. I’ve missed the ‘craziness’ of the ICU. I’ve missed it all.
And now I’m going back where I belong.
Carpe Diem
Tags: job, nurse, opportunity
Right on. ICU is the next step, after the wife and I figure out where we want to be. C’mon, med-surg isn’t so bad, you just don’t have all that fancy technology when things go south!
@ Wanderer ICU is just where I’m meant to be. And med-surg is WAY more than that.
Congratulations on your new opportunity!!
@ NurseExec THANK YOU! I’m excited.
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Congratulations, Sean, on discovering what’s right for YOU! I ventured out of the OR once in the early 90s to try Home Health. It was fascinating;I admire Home Health Nurses tremendously; I learned a lot. The most important thing I learned, though, was that I am an OR nurse!
I’m now two years into my second trip outside the OR and I’ve found the place that is right for me at this point in my career/life. It’s a great feeling to be where you belong, isn’t it? Good luck, though you seem to have enough skill that luck isn’t really necessary.
@ Christina1973 Thank you.. I’ll wish us both luck then!
YAY!!! That is AWESOME! Welcome to the club. Or, welcome BACK. What the hell, once a member always a member, right?
I could have WRITTEN those lists!
@ Caroline It’s a good club to be a part of. Thanks.