I am currently a nursing student. I have been a LPN for almost 9 years, and I will have my RN by May/June 2013 (knock on wood). I am REALLY interested in Emergency Medicine. I get bored with the same passing meds and doing treatments day after day to the same patients. I want to see traumas, different diseases, and other things. For some reason when I have been in a situation with my patients where it was ER, I think clearly. What would you recommend to someone interested in the ER field?
Oops! I just noticed this in my inbox. I would reply privately but, as I’ve recently been made aware that would link to me personal tumblr, I’ll have to do a public response.
Since I’m not a nurse I might not have the best response but hopefully some of my followers can help you out.
If I’m not mistaken, the ER I work at actually has a few LPN/LVNs on staff that work in the ER while they’re going through the process of obtaining their RN. I don’t know if any ERs in your area do that, but it might be a good option. Once you get your RN I’m sure you could also find an ER nursing job (I’m not sure if there’s required experience in other nursing areas to get an ER nursing job though).
Any of my followers have a better answer than I do?