Urgent advice needed for interview tomorrow

[FrickFrackRN]

I just reached my 1 year of nursing mark after having a great run in an outpatient surgery center doing mostly PACU phase II and some pre-op. I was then offered a position in the ED which I nervously but with great excitement took. After 3 weeks of being in floods of tears, bullied, and having no support from management.. and quite frankly no desire to ever be an ER nurse again.. I quit. I very quickly realized I am not cut out from the ER and I will own that. I went into nursing to be a PEDS or L&D nurse, but was aware I had to work my way up the ladder at least in this area to get there. I'm also only 1 semester into my BSN and here all the children's and women's hospitals require a finished BSN to work there.

Long story short I sent out my resume to a small L&D hospital about 45 minutes away during my time in the ER hoping a miracle would happen and I would get an interview. The amazing news is I have one for tomorrow. However I'm not sure how to explain why I left the ED after only 3 weeks without it looking terrible. Any suggestions. Trust me I feel terrible, like an inept nurse for this happening, but it was the RIGHT decision!

I spent 2 years working in a women's hospital L&D/mother baby/NICU before I was a nurse as a unit secretary and did my practicum there so I at least have some understanding of what I am getting into, unlike with the ED disaster. Thank you for any advice on what to tell them!

[klone, MSN, RN]

I would just tell them that as soon as you realized it wasn't a good fit, you quit in an effort to save them additional time and resources to continue to orient you.