Adventures in Nursing - Big Decisions
I had to make a decision on the spot recently regarding my career as a nurse. I’ve been wanting to get my foot into the door of prenatal nursing. I’ve already taken part 1 of 2 classes that’s needed. One day, couple of weeks ago, I had paid my $800 tuition out of my own money to pay for my desire to further my education in the field of perinatal nursing; part 2 of 2 classes. I was feeling really good about this decision, “money well spent”, I thought.
Near mid afternoon I got a phone call from my amazingly awesome manager at my current job. She asked me if I had logged into to check out my work email, I said no. “Coz who does that on their days off?” She said that I should take a look as it was regarding a high acuity program that I enlisted for last year. This high acuity program will allow me to work with sicker patients within the cardiac field of nursing.
I was always uneasy about taking this program on. It means that I’ll have more responsibilities at work. Cardiac nursing was not what I see myself in 10 years down the road and I thought that taking on this high acuity class would make it harder for me to leave cardiac nursing. But this was free education, I’d get paid full time hours while I studied. It was kinda crazy of me to not want to take it.
So I reluctantly did, and only after talking it over with Husband. I had to drop my beloved perinatal class. I was genuinely sad about it. But this high acuity class would help in any field of nursing I’d want to partake in the future, plus it doesn’t hurt that it looks wicked awesome on the resume.
