What type of nursing do you do?

I am a nurse in the OR. I perform both the circulating role and the scrub role. I love both.
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  • mhotch
    mhotch Posts: 901 Member
    Right now I am in a self imposed semi retirement. We had a lot of renovations the past 1 1/2 yrs. Men in the house every day.

    When I am working , I work in a med/surg CCU. I also teach part time in the clinical setting for a local community college refresher course.
  • I am a medsurg charge nurse, I work third shift
  • trixirn
    trixirn Posts: 130 Member
    Emergency room for past two years. Prior to that a monitored unit and prior to that pediatric transplants. :smile: :smile:
  • mccarol1956
    mccarol1956 Posts: 422 Member
    Hi everyone! I am an ICU nurse who has worked 12.5 hour nights forever!
  • pinkita
    pinkita Posts: 779 Member
    OB/GYN clinic RN here.
  • Cardiac/telemetry floor specializing in heart failure/heart transplant/VADs and I work the 7p-7a shift.
  • rjsgirl2009
    rjsgirl2009 Posts: 3 Member
    I am a CNA at the local hospital. I work 12 hour shifts 3 days a week. :happy:
  • LJV1031
    LJV1031 Posts: 502 Member
    I'm a telemetry med/surg RN, usually charge, working 12 hour over nights. Glad to meet you all. :flowerforyou: :drinker:
  • I work in the Cardiac Intervention Unit. 12hour night shifts. Glad to find this group
  • beatnik236
    beatnik236 Posts: 120 Member
    Hi : ) I work in the ICU/CCU. 12 hours. 3p-3a.
  • Hi : ) I work in the ICU/CCU. 12 hours. 3p-3a.
    That shift sounds better than 7p-7a need to talk my manager into it.
  • I am an OR nurse, I have done it for the past 2 years and love it.
  • I am an OR nurse. I scrub and circulate as well. I work 8 hour shifts (7-3). I've been a nurse for 6 1/2 years.
  • AureliaCotta
    AureliaCotta Posts: 99 Member
    Psychiatric nurse since day 1, working day and evening shifts.
  • mccarol1956
    mccarol1956 Posts: 422 Member
    Hi : ) I work in the ICU/CCU. 12 hours. 3p-3a.
    That shift sounds better than 7p-7a need to talk my manager into it.

    My ideal shift too! I used to love this shift but have not worked anywhere that has offered it in years. I do better with those hours!
  • I'm an LPN on Med/Surg. I'm just working casual right now, but our shifts are 12 hours, and is often short call, so sometimes it can be tricky to meal plan, especially on nights. I do my best to stay away from the cookie/cracker bin!
  • OB/GYN RN
  • nottie79
    nottie79 Posts: 4 Member
    Charge nurse on a med/surg tele floor
  • Med/Surg RN working 7p-7a three nights per week!
  • diagilb
    diagilb Posts: 3 Member
    I am a hospice nurse working nights and weekends.
  • SalishSea
    SalishSea Posts: 373 Member
    I am a Stem Cell Transplant nurse. I work 12 hr shifts- 7p to 7a.

    I also commute from far away to where I work . So I sleep in my car during the day, then go to work for a 12 hr night shift. I do this for my stretch of shifts then go home again. It works for me.
  • I'm a CNA currently working in in-home care with a quad. I work 9am-1pm weekdays (no weekends!), which works out perfectly for me, as I have a daughter who goes to school at 8:30 and gets home at 3. I love my shift, my patient and I get along really well, and I get along great with the nurses I work with as well. (My patient has 24-hour RN/LPN care in addition to the 4 hours of CNA coverage he gets daily.) I am finishing up my last couple of prereqs for nursing school and planning to start in either April (spring quarter) or September (fall quarter) this year. I have worked night shift before and it did not work well with my body, so I'm hoping not to have to do that ever again, but I know that's a tough thing for a new nurse...
  • LPN night shift on detox!
  • Dtough
    Dtough Posts: 70 Member
    Hi! Im a pediatric nurse. I'm doing a few travel assignments at the moment! I would really love to move over into L&D if I could just find an opening!
  • nikkibyrdRN
    nikkibyrdRN Posts: 37 Member
    L&D RN
  • veepie
    veepie Posts: 103
    I am a 3rd Year Paediatric Student Nurse in the UK. Hoping to find a ward job come October x
  • tenshiblue
    tenshiblue Posts: 150 Member
    I'm an ICU nurse working 7p to 7a. I like my job but even after 4 years my body has not fully adjusted to working nights. I'm going to CRNA school this coming May. I don't plan on working while I'm in school. I'm super excited to be a student and have a normal sleep schedule again after all these years! Grad school will be super intense, I hope I can find time to exercise in between my hectic schedule.
  • BuffERRN
    BuffERRN Posts: 109 Member
    I started working on the Cardiology floor and have been cross trained to our ER for the last 1 1/2 years and LOVE IT!!! My wife is also a nurse on the med/ surg/ renal/ dialysis floor. Same hospital, different floors.

    I couldn't imagine doing anything else with my life...
  • WinterB2003
    WinterB2003 Posts: 26 Member
    I'm a LPN who currently does Home Health for 2 patients.....I make my own shift Mon-Fri
  • NicolettetheGreek
    NicolettetheGreek Posts: 246 Member
    I am a retired nurse, only because I was injured, and had to have 13 surgeries, which took over 2 years to heal. I wasn't thinking AT ALL about doing my CEU's while I was healing, plus, I spent over 7 months total in-patient. So, when the time came to reup, I didn't have the credits, CEU wise, and couldn't bring myself to LIE on the application, saying I had them. So, I let it slide. But, I am calling tomorrow to see if I can do my CEU's and get my license back.

    By the way, MED/Surg.