Desk job

Does anyone currently work as a nurse at a desk job? What do you do to keep up on medications and you're skills?
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Thinking that any new medications that come along, I would do what I always did, read up on it / use pharmacy as a resource.As far as IV skills, interpreting telemetry, etc. after 30 years, that's pretty much like riding a bike .A moot point...I will not be returning to the bedside.I love my desk job, they will have to pry my keyboard out of cold dead hands

I like your last statement! So when you review the medication do they stick? I love being hands on and visiting with the patients. Sadly I rarely see patients.

I am half time desk, half time floor nurse. But like Been There said, it's like riding a bike, the skill set comes back quickly

Quote from Been there,done thatI will not be returning to the bedside.I love my desk job, they will have to pry my keyboard out of cold dead hands

I am glad to hear. The only worries I have is I have only worked in long term care and for 6 months before getting this job now. So I really do not have a grasp on some of the skills.

If you think you might want to return to the bedside perhaps getting a PRN job would help you strengthen your skills and give you more experience. It might be difficult to get a bedside job if you stay away too long, especially with limited experience.

One of my coworkers works full-time as a state surveyor from Monday through Friday during banker's hours. To maintain her nursing procedural skills, she works PRN as a floor nurse at the specialty hospital where I am employed.She picks up perhaps a couple of shifts per month. It is just enough to keep from losing one's hands-on skills.