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What type of environment is best to work in?

I want to be a pediatric nurse. My goal is to be done with school by 35 and be on the road to advancement opportunities, making more than $75k a year.Change
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Emily’s Answer

The best type of environment is very dependent on your personality. If you want to have plenty of opportunity for advancement, a hospital may be the best setting. I do feel you need to look at your goals and set realistic expectations for pay. Management takes a certain personality and a lot of experience. I’m not sure your age now, but it could be 5+ years to get into a management role if you’re a good nurse. If you want to make it $75k/year, you’ll also need to look at the location where you want to work. In San Antonio, the average RN salary is about $56k. Pay is correlative to cost of living. If you want to make that much, you’ll have to look at either specialities that pay more or places such as New York or California which have a higher pay, but also a higher cost of living.

Another thing to consider with that salary aspiration is becoming a nurse practitioner. You may have a better change of reaching that goal being an NP than a bedside nurse. NP can also be a good degree for management. I know several managers with an NP degree.

I think you have great goals and I wish you luck!

Emily recommends the following next steps:

Graduate nursing school
Find a specialty which you love
Apply yourself and be a very strong nurse
Don’t rush learning, you want to be very strong to get into management
Consider NP school
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Alex’s Answer

The best environment to work in is a supportive culture with people who can reason and understanding you. There is not much worse than working in a hostile working environment. This contributes very directly to personal happiness and well being. Focus on the culture of where you want to work to ensure success.
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Nicholas’s Answer

The best work environment to get into is solely up to your wants and needs! I, myself care about company culture, and how I fit into the company's culture. This is what's most important to me. Everyone has different wants and needs out of their company, and everyone has an expectation on where they want to work! ASk yourself where you want to be and where you want to go, and the dominos will fall. Just constantly figure out where you want to go in life
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