I'm about to start my first nursing job and I plan to have children in about 3 years. I've always thought I'd like to take off a few years from work when my children are young and then go back when they're in school.
Is this a bad idea? Would I lose my nursing skills or have trouble finding a new job?
(We would likely move to a different town after children, so I'd need to start over at a new hospital anyway)
I though finding work after nursing school would be really easy, but it was definitely much harder than I thought, and I worry that finding work after 5 years of being a stay at home mom might be harder than I thought also.
Did anyone else do it?
Does it depend a lot on the economy and how desperate they are for nurses at the time I want to go back?