Re: Two job offers. Help me make a decision!
CRNAs don't go to school as such, here. We are in apprenticeship for 2 years with full pay and some weeks of school here and there during that period. Apparently, acute dialysis nurses stand a very good chance of getting into such a program.
I'm not in the US. Chronics are treated in a hospitals here, there are only RNs and the ratio is 1 RN:2½ patients. There is no privatization in regards to dialysis.
As for the acute job, again, this isn't the US, so conditions are totally different. I'll be trained for 2-3 months, start with stable patients and then after 6-12 months start training with pheresis, unstable patients and all that in gradual steps. Nothing will happen before both I and my employers are happy to go on to the next step.
Both settings are staffed only with RNs in this country and I will never be without at least one experienced dialysis nurse in the same room.
It will be one of these two jobs. Have to give my answer in 10 hours and still can't make up my mind!
I guess my real question is this:
Is the experience I would get in an acute setting (as described above) of such professional value further on in my career that it is preferable to a more laid-back job in a chronic setting (as described above), or will the chronic setting be more than enough for a year or two.
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