What health care jobs involve?
27/08/09
either babies, or babies and their mothers.
I wanted to be a neonatal nurse, but I don’t want to watch a baby die, so what else would be a good choice?
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Pediatrician, that way you could work with babies. The downfall would be that you’d also have to treat older children. But if you’re okay with that it’d be a good choice.
Work in the well-baby nursery. Most hospitals nowadays will leave the baby with it’s mother unless she requests some rest, so your job will be to go from room to room assessing the baby. You’ll also ask how feeding is going, give breast/bottle feeding instructions, monitor how many poops and pee’s the baby has had…things like that. In some hospitals you are also responsible for the care of the mother after delivery. You will assess her uterus, help her to the bathroom to clean up and sit in warm buckets of water for a while, give her pain medications, etc etc. Nothing real challenging. Well-baby nursing and postpartum nursing is pretty easy, and it’s a "happy" place to work. You DO get a bunch of Princesses though….the ones who think they’ve done something wonderful that no one else has done before, and they want every pain medication on the planet. Other than that, there are no dead babies to deal with. In the neonatal ICU, it happens sometimes but is extremely rare in a well-baby nursery.