TOP 5 Least Stressful Nursing Jobs

Thinking of a career switch? Listen up to these 5 low stress nursing jobs in 2022!
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[IgorScoots]

I find home health less stressful if you don't mind working over 40 hrs a week. The amount of charting you do and the amount of work you bring home with you is insane. I stay up past midnight charting and getting ready for the next day. Keep in mind you have to call and schedule each patient visit the night before. I'm going back to the hospital. Get my 3 shifts over with and forget about it.

[jeremya]

Here is the video summary:
1.telemed health 2.school nurse 3.Home health 4.lactation consultation 5.outpatient infusion center

[rabmakz]

I’ve tried Home Health and Telehealth nursing and they both require a lot of charting and they do still require a lot of time management. Nurse to patient ratio is a lot more than bedside. And 5 days a week. I didn’t find them to be less stressful nursing jobs.

[AC-kwst]

I was a home health cna and it’s insane the things that we deal with in the home. I have no desire as an RN now to go back to home health. The homes were sometimes dangerous.

[LennaHopkins]

School Nursing is a very stressful JOB. You have a misconception of what a school nurse is and does. You have a responsibility to everyone in that school, including students, parents, faculty and staff. It’s not just giving meds and handing out bandage. It’s more like working in an emergency room, you never know what’s gonna walk thru your door or happen on campus. You work alone, you’re responsible for so much. The list goes on and on. In fact, I have 3 pages, single spaced list of nursing responsibilities in my procedure manual if you care to see it. Lastly, my days can easily extend to 9 plus hours with no lunch break.

[nursewellbeingmissionUK]

It's so helpful having alternative career paths outlined. From other people's comments it does seem that stress is unavoidable in some shape or form. Finding a job where you are well supported and have a sense of meaning AND learning how to manage stress and other emotions is the sweet spot 😄

[db]

I would suggest checking into ambulatory or outpatient nursing positions. I went from bedside to working at a clinic 5 years ago. It is way less stressful and there wasn't the pay cut I was expecting either.

[christinaf]

Home health nursing can be dangerous! I went into some of THE most disgusting, filthy, putrid, cigarette-smoke filled and nasty pet-smelling homes! Not to mention the pets that jump all over you. Homes so dirty you literally have no where to sit or to set your bag down. Always had to use a barrier. Also worked in some of the most dangerous crime-filled neighborhoods and was scared beyond words. Sometimes it was only me and one man(my patient) alone in a remote home location. I could have easily been raped or worse. A nurse I worked with always had her gun on her just in case. One winter I slid off the road, and through stop-signs on the icy roads, and got my car stuck in the snow, on a super long driveway at a country home. Most of the time the patients/families do NOT plow, shovel or salt their driveways or steps even though they know the nurse is coming-especially the elderly who aren't always able to do so. But it was the long drive time that finally made me quit. Spent more time in the car than with patients. Lots of charting, usually 2-hrs plus when you get home in the evening after working an 8-9 hr day!

[auntieluusfancystampers]

I was a Home Health Nurse for 25 years— and it is by no means without it’s fair share of stress. With acuities in hospitals growing all the time, the same goes for our patients being sent home. Home infusion, including some Chemo agents complex wound care — 5-7 or more patients—after hours on call— driving all over a city. You need to be experienced, organized, tactful, an independent and strong critical thinker. You are the Master of Generalist Nursing— you are a Social Worker, Teacher, you deal with difficult situations such as death and dying— difficult Doctors and families. I feel that I learned more in Home Health—than my hospital years. The flexibility does make it inviting for many but you need to consider all you will deal with.

[detoxlady]

I did school nursing and the principal made the job extremely stressful and difficult. She fired 30 nurses and then she fired me.

[Mayrita]

I've heard that the worse of home health is that the houses of the clients sometimes are filthy or at least a mess

[caseyminter]

I would normally agree with the school nurse thing
But right now, my kids' school nurse has to help with contact tracing, quarantine management, and notifying parents when their kids need to stay home for a week (and angry parents). She seems pretty stressed.

[lcomfort]

UPS driver sounding better and better.

[jellypish]

I am currently a home in Fusion Nurse/Nurse and assesor/Infusion Center Nurse and I loved it. I love love love love it.

[MNP]

I truly believe the stress level depends on the company, staffing and environment. Remember, home health nursing for many big companies involves meeting production. I know some extremely anxious home health nurses. The stress level in school nursing depends on the size of the district and their expectations. Many large districts have one RN who is in charge of multiple buildings with 50+ diabetic students. The RN has to manage "health aides" at other sites who are not always clinically trained (typically they are not well paid). The days of having a school RN or LPN in every building are long past. The outpatient infusion RNs where I worked (hospital based clinic) keep quitting. There are only two of them to meet the demands of MULTIPLE specialists.

[johnberry]

Home health, REALLY! If you live in Beverly Hills! Here in Michigan, the home health nurses are fighting off cockroaches, bed bugs, thieves and risking their lives to see these patients. If the patients are not able to get to a Dr, what kind of living conditions do you think they are living in ? Nurses I know have had to basically spray their entire body, bags, clothes, shoes and automobiles down with Alcohol just to keep, the bed bugs at bay. One even had to pay thousands of 💰💰💰to have their home treated for bed bugs they picked up in these home visits !
So, home health is NOT an Option…. Period!!

[latoricurry]

Before reading the comments... Home Health Nurse would have been my first choice. I currently work as a home health caregiver, so I agree that homes can be filthy. However, I have a consistent schedule with the same 2 patients every day, and I love it. Hence why I was considering Home Health Nurse. Now I am leaning more toward Telehealth Nursing. I just passed my HESI A2 Exam with a 91 and met the rest of the requirements to apply for a BSN program. I'm waiting to find out if I'll be accepted. Wish me luck!

[ruthtretter]

Telehealth can be very stressful. It requires a lot of independent judgement. For example, you could have someone call with chest pain, next call breastfeeding advice, next call advice about symptoms with brain cancer. If someone calls with depression you have to decide if they are suicidal (911). Working in the afterhours, you make most of these judgements alone and without a physical assessment. I had to call the police once when a caller admitted to homicidal thoughts. In addition, we were often short staffed. Once stayed 3 hours late, until 2 am, because we were short 2 /3 nurses. I was the only one there. During the pandemic we had thousands of callers waiting for a handful of nurses, some of whom had shortness of breath. I worked medical surgical for years. Yes, it was stressful, but you were rarely alone.

[tanachurch]

School nursing is not easy. The acuity of children with severe health issues is increasing. Plus you are the only one there during a crisis. You also must get certified in gang and drug awareness and active shooter. Also home health is not easy. You do not “help with ADLs and change cat litter.”. You manage a case load, deal with complex health issues as patients are being discharged rapidly with complex issues. You take a ton of overnight call as well. I think it’s disrespectful for you to decide which jobs are easy when clearly you have little experience. I have done every kind of nursing from ICU, med surg, Oncology, school nursing and hospice. Every job comes with its own stressors. Choose wisely what you express an opinion about if you have never done it. I have been nursing 28 years and I would NEVER disrespect another nurse by telling him/her that they have an easy job if I had never done it.

[jarretrinkunas]

Surgical nursing isnt too stressful, you may have a rough-edged surgeon and some stressful cases occasionally but it’s 1:1 ratio. As long as you can handle being on call sometimes and don’t mind some gory cases I’d recommend!