Jun
13

Time For Increasing My Possibilities

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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.

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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

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  • 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.
  • 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! :)

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  • Congratulations on your new opportunity!!
  • @ NurseExec THANK YOU! I'm excited.
  • 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. :)
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