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Sep 19, 2009 08:43 PM

possibility that my dream job might be available


I did my senior preceptorship on an adolescent med-surg floor at my dream hospital and LOVED IT. I currently work in psych at a hospital that was not my dream hospital. I worked in a psych hospital as a tech for my last year of nursing school, which I think helped me get in the door at my current job. I was scanning openings and saw positions in pediatrics at said dream hospital and have just received an e-mail asking me to rank my specialties. I love my job but there's a part of me that would love so badly to get that dream job now instead of waiting a year to switch specialties. I know being offered an interview is not the same as being offered a job and I would have to do some serious soul searching to switch jobs because I know it looks bad switching jobs after only 2 months. I do like my job and wouldn't switch or interview for just any other position right now but my heart lies in two specialties, peds and psych. I wish I could have waited around for the dream job, but I needed a job and didn't think something would open up. Any advice?


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Old Sep 19, 2009, 09:13 PM

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Go for the interview. If you get an offer then we can agonize with you over what to do.

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from Avary
Old Sep 19, 2009, 09:20 PM

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Go for it.
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from Meriwhen
Old Sep 20, 2009, 09:30 AM

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Go for it: if you don't try, you'll never know if you'd get it! Also, it's not as though you're automatically committing to the job by going on an interview.
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from NC Girl RN
Old Sep 20, 2009, 01:03 PM

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What everyone else said.
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Old Sep 21, 2009, 08:20 AM

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Thanks for all the support guys. I went ahead and sent them my list of specialities I'm interested in and will probably make a call today to see what the next step is. I have a friend that works at said dream hospital and she's soooo in love with it that it's infectious. I can't help but dream, you know?
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