Anyone else try nursing and...

[HappyParamedicRN]

Hi,

Just wondering if other medics have tried the nursing route and totally hated it?

If you like nursing what area did you go into?

Happy

 

[Akulahawk]

Hopefully I'll be able to tell ya in about 2 years...

 

[TransportJockey]

Hopefully I'll be able to tell ya in about 2 years...

I'm hoping that's my timeline... probably a little longer.
EDIT: I eventually wanna get my CEN and maybe CCRN, along with my FP-C.

 

[medicRob]

I exponentially prefer nursing to paramedicine. My specialty area is Trauma/Critical Care.

 

[abckidsmom]

I started in EMS at age 14, was an EMT at 16, and a Cardiac Tech at 18, when I started nursing school.

I worked in a busy, inner-city STICU, that overlooked the ER driveway. I didn't last at all. I did my year in the unit and bailed out for the streets. I don't even regret it now that I'm a grownup.

Now I think I could enjoy nursing, but only in a busy ICU, and something with a pretty widely varied clientele, like a PICU, STICU or even (maybe) a MICU.

Knowing myself, I would not be able to work in an ER because it's too close to the door. I might escape.

 

[8jimi8]

patient assignments are for the birds. Give me advance practice and get me off the unit. Unless it is a 1 to 1 assignment. Give me one patient at a time every day.

 

[medicRob]

Give me one patient at a time every day.

Second this. That is one good thing about the TICU, I have only one patient for the entire shift, albeit an extremely critical one.

 

[VFlutter]

I am currently in an EMT class while i wait for nursing school to start in May. So far i love my EMT class way more than any of my pre-nursing ones. So i guess i will see what happens. I definitely know i want to do some type of CCRN or Flight nurse.

 

[mycrofft]

I was an EMT for seven years and have been RN since 1983.

My skills and temperment were better suited to street work, but nursing was the key to a lifelong profession, which I was able to retire from twice (once from the military, and once from a sheriff dept). I'm still married to the same woman after over thirty years, have a pension and saved money for retirement; these are things did not see most street EMS people having. I also was able to keep working after I was too old and worn out to keep swinging from ropes etc.
HOWEVER...despite many opportunities and rewarding experiences, the interpersonal politicking and infighting for position or to enforce personal power, and the rotten attitude towards nursing professionals by employers, left a lingering bad taste in my mouth.
If I had it all to do again, I'd have gone into environmental health or something more technical. Neither of my kids are entering the profession.