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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in my early thirties in a dead end field and going back to school for nursing next year. Absolutely buzzy feeling to know my earning power will increase exponentially and predictably in this field, especially with additional education. [/quote]
Yeah, but you have to be a nurse. I love the idea of this, except the touching gross people part.[/quote]
I would be a nurse in the nursery or NICU, but no adults, please.[/quote]
OT, but there was a poster in a thread on "Expectant Moms" talking about how the changes in staffing and move to baby-friendly hospitals meant that nursing staff got consolidated such that post-partum nurses were also caring for healthy newborns and vice-versa. The newborn nurses mostly left the field, or remain and provide bad care to new moms. [/quote]
This is true. Many acute care hospitals are moving toward the "a nurse is a nurse" mindset and have no qualms about reassigning nurses trained in one specialty to a unit with a similar, but different speciality as a cost-saving measure (think L&D or well-baby nurses to a postpartum floor, ICU nurses to a stepdown floor). It's called floating, it sucks, and it's a reason nurses leave.[/quote]
When I worked at WHC, they did it too often. One reason I left...[/quote]

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