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i would do acute care for at least a year, then transfer to primary if you still want to
the acute care exp you get will be invaluable and make you much more confident in the primary/outpatient care setting
plus you can always go from inpatient to outpatient, but it is harder to get into acute care if you havent been in it fore more than a few years
this is coming from someone who never did acute med/surg (i did acute psych..) and now works primary care/outpatient
i wish i had done med surg-- now that i am used to the cushy hours/schedule, it is hard to imagine going back to the hospital
If you are interested in primary care, health promotion and public health, telemetry is a fantastic foundation. You'll see the end result of what happens when primary care is not available, not understood and/or not accessed. Diet, smoking, stress, lack of exercise becomes obesity, diabetes, COPD, heart failure, kidney failure, neuropathy, etc.
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I am currently in an internship program and working on a med-surg/telemetry floor. I am learning SO much, but it really isn't my cup of tea. I'm more interested in primary care, health promotion, and public health. (My eventual goal is to be a pediatric primary care nurse practitioner.)
This program ends around the second week of September and I'm having a little trouble making a decision as to where to go. There are a couple positions in my health system that are primary care jobs. My question: do you believe that primary care experience is sufficient or that more acute care experience is vital?