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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Health Care |
NICU or delivery Nurse? |
Hi! :D I am just starting high school, and I started thinking about careers. I have always been interested in NICU and Delivery Nurses, and I hope to become one someday. I would like to know which one is better career wise. If I work in the NICU I would like to be a phase 2 Nurse (taking care of premature or fairly ill newborns) but Delivery sounds good too. Thank you for any help given! :D I faced this too. I chose to be a labor & delivery nurse, but eventually I will want to move to NICU nursing I think. They both have their unique challenges and advantages. I like laboring with patients, bonding with the parents during that intimate time of birthing, being there to share the joy as the baby enters the world. I also can appreciate the sad, yet beautiful experience that can be had during times of crisis, such as stillbirths or premature delivery where the baby cannot be saved. NICU nursing can sometimes be a very "sterile" job, meaning there are a lot of procedures and technical aspects, and the baby doesn't interact with you so you don't always get that feedback and feel a sense of gratification for the work you're doing, you don't necessarily get to build the same kind of bond as you do with patients who interact with you over the course of your shift. That is not always true, of course, since many hospitals have "primary nursing" models where you get the same patient every day, so in that way, NICU nursing can provide some kind of continuity and there can be satisfaction in watching a baby progress as it grows and gets ready to go home with mom & dad. It isn't the kind of decision you can make before you even start nursing school. Many of us start nursing school with an idea of where we'd like to work, but when we have clinical rotations in school we learn that it wasn't at all what we thought it would be, and find that maybe our passions lie somewhere completely different. It's important to keep an open mind. Source(s): RN |
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