Help! I need some advice

[CIY629]

Hello all I will graduate April 27, 2002 and I have no idea where I want to work. I just recently did a 1 day rotation in NICU which I loved I wouldn't mind working their and the hospital here in my city has 10 full time openings. My OB instructor said go for it and she even introduced me to the nurse manager. However, my leadership instructor said that it would not be helpful to start in the NICU as a new grad. My other area of nursing I would like to go into is renal. I need some help please reply with your comments

[RN6699]

Go where your heart is being tugged. Remember, if you find that you don't enjoy it, you can transfer to another area. By the way, I did work in NICU and loved it. I just couldn't handle working 12 hour nights. Do understand though, that there are a lot of things that you may not really want to see (crack babies for example).

Go have fun and spread your wings:)

[kmchugh]

Go to the NICU. I had some of the same issues as a new grad, because I wanted to work in the SICU at a level one trauma center. The manager of the unit summed it up nicely: "If you want to go to a specialty unit right out of school, then go there immediately. The time management skills, the assessment skills, and the knowledge needed in specialty units now days is completely different from those needed on med surg floors. Why learn all these things twice?"

So, I went to the SICU, and loved it. I do anesthesia now, but it was the SICU that motivated me to learn more.