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For my senior project, I'm writing about immigration. I want to volunteer at a hospital though. Is it hard to get into a hospital as a high school student? I want to get to see how people work in there. Also, I just googled the average Hispanic RN, and it came up to 4.8% it was shocking, and immediately made me want to become an RN even more. Does anybody know how long it takes to become a Pediatric nurse?

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It takes the same amount of time to become an RN whether your desire is L&D (as you have posted many times before) or pediatrics, oncology, anything. RNs do not graduate with a specialty; the license is as a 'generalist', if you will.

Time spent IN a specialty once working will determine how quickly you become proficient, and whether you have a talent for it.

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Above post clarifies that you do not graduate nursing college with a specialty. After you have completed nursing college and passed your national boards you then choose where you want to work. Most new grads work on a general med-surg floor for approximately 2 years before they seek a specialty. However, many new graduates also get hired into specialty areas. Have you tried volunteering as a Hostess or Transporter? Hospitals use to have "Candy Stripers" who were like junior nurses and helped the patients, but that has been done away with over the years. If you are interested in pursuing nursing in your adult like you should start taking science courses and try to do something that involves working with the public. That will get you exposed to what providing a service to the public may involve. Most likely a lot of us started our working careers as waitresses, retail workers etc.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

If you are in the UK, nurses are specialist trained in adult, psych, child/pediatrics, or learning disabilities (developmental disabilities in the US) or as a midwife. In the US & Canada nurses are generalist trained in school.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

What does this have to do with immigration?

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What does this have to do with immigration?

It doesn't. The OP is a high school student with many questions (on many threads) about nursing, how to get into L&D, that sort of thing. I think she's just trying to figure it all out :)

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