non bedside nursing jobs Philadelphia (home, school, price)

[smileallday8]

Hi,

I have four years of experience in adult ICU. I am not looking to continue doing beside nursing at ALL. My body cannot handle it. I am a small framed woman and America is too FAT. Peoples attitude in general bugs me on the self entitlement while in the hospital.

Please chime in on your position and pay range.

Thought I would try this website instead of allnurses.

[LoriNJ]

Have you considered going back to school for your NP degree? With ICU experience, you could consider becoming an acute care NP or a nurse anesthetist (very competitive, but nurse anesthesia programs all require ICU experience).

There are lots of outpatient surgical centers in the region. Have you looked at jobs there? How about home care? It would be a complete change of pace for you, but you might like the autonomy.

Not sure what the pay range in the Philly area is these days, as I have not done bedside nursing in a while.

Also look at the websites for the big hospitals, like HUP. Some of my students have gotten jobs as nurses at hospital-affiliated outpatient practices; they definitely are not doing bedside nursing.

[smileallday8]

CRNA I would rather not go that route. Just not interesting to me. I shadowed some CRNA's in an OB setting and hated it.
I would like to focus on starting a family than be in school. I see a lot of NP programs are 12-16 months, 44k price tag. Maybe I should just get it out the way. My heart is just no into it right now. I may give peds a try before I decide to do NP. I am not sure if I want to focus on adults anymore, so being a ped NP or FNP I feel like I need a year in peds. Few adults are willing to change there ways. Children can be changed.

Outpatient surgical center I forgot about, Thank you for the tips.

[Ant$]

I work at the VA. all non bedside nursing jobs require a master's. any master's. not just nursing