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Yesterday, I called the community health center where I sometimes work as a per diem nurse, asking if they needed any help. I didn't really help out there all summer because they hired several school nurses who needed temp work for the summer, so now that Fall is here (well, almost), it seems my services are needed again several times a week.

Now, I am not one to complain, and I do what's asked of me in any given situation. When I go to the health center, what they really need help with is processing med refill requests. It is, I must say, not the most glamorous of tasks, and I basically have to sit at a computer all day shifting data around. Still, I appreciate the work, and appreciate being of assistance to professionals that I like and care about. 

Watching the nurses run and run all day, I realize that I don't want to work in the community health center any more (beyond my current per diem capacity, that is). I realize I am looking for my niche, and for now I can handle mindless med refill requests for ten hours a week until I figure out what's next.

As for my other work, I write content and otherwise take care of Nurse LinkUp's daily operations, and I write the occasional article for NurseConnect. When I get the occasional call, I do per diem work for a local VNA and Hospice organization. I also sometimes work as a consultant for my old non-profit nurse care management agency where I slogged away more than full-time from 2000 to early 2008. With n application pending at a local inpatient psych unit, I still feel uncertain where my future as a nurse lies. 

Anyway, mindless med refills, home visits, website administration, writing, consulting---it's all good (as the young people say), and I am lucky to have so many choices. So what if I don't know what the future holds. At least there's a future to behold......