No, this isn’t stealth bragging. This is full on balls out *bragging *bragging.
I’ve been having a lot of troubles and angst at school this rotation, so it was really really wonderful to get 100% on my OB Clinical Evaluation today. But what was *really *awesome was, when we were done, she said, “I’d be really honored to give you a reference when you’re ready to apply for a job, okay?” She didn’t say a word to any of the other students about references.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
(She also told me not to bother with working 2 years of Med-Surg. She says it’s “obvious that NICU is your calling,” and that they’d simply have to untrain all my Med-Surg training when I moved to NICU, so I should just apply straight to NICUs when I have my RN. again!)
W00t w00t! I had one of my instructors say that he thought I’d fit right in with the crowd as his vet clinic, and that I’m one of the few students he would give a reference to. Feels soooooo good!
Cool beans. My mom’s an RN so I know secondhand that it’s a shitty, thankless, overworked, underpaid job. At least if you work for adults. NICU sounds like a great niche since baby poo is less disgusting. Though of course it’s more tragic when a baby dies than when an 80 year old dies…
Though I do wonder why people who work for nursing homes and companies like Rescare accept minimum wage for similar jobs. That depresses me actually.
You might also, once you’ve got some years of clinical experience under your belt and are tired of wiping butts, consider a desk job. My mom is a drug review nurse for an insurance company and makes pretty damn decent money, or you could be a nurse case manager. Or a company nurse. Company nurse sounds pretty sweet, you handle minor things and send employees to urgent care for anything more serious.
Yes, rachelellogram, nursing is certainly a broad career, with lots of options for different types of employment. That’s certainly an attraction for me, since I have a history of love-love-loving a job for about 5 years and then getting a real itch for a change.
I went in to nursing school with the idea that I’d want to work NICU, but well aware that I didn’t know a lot about nursing and might be inspired by something else entirely. So far, I haven’t been, and indeed was starting to wonder if I’d made the right choice in becoming a nurse. Then I spent a single day in the NICU during my OB rotation and it was right as rain again. I know a lot of people say they couldn’t possibly do NICU work, and I completely understand why: it can be terribly hard losing little ones and that’s a heavy emotional burden to carry for a job. But when I’m there, I just feel vital and alive and useful…I’m impassioned about my work again. It was pretty obvious to my teacher, as well. NICU is where I belong, at least for now.
Doesn’t it feel great to have someone else say how awesome you are?
Congrats on impressing your instructor and good luck getting yourself comfortably installed in a NICU job - if you feel right working there, your work will be that much better.
