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I don't know how this happened. Over a year ago I applied to hospital jobs and got no responses. This time bamm!!! 4 job offers! I've narrowed it down to my top 2, thank goodness! My dilemma is I've been a case manag8for the last 6 years. I started as an LVN and received my RN license 10/2014. Because I had so much CM experience no one would hire me on the floor d/t lack of experience.

With a fresh new license and all the hard work I've put into becoming an RN, I feel like all of my skills are going to waste not being on the floor. So I applied to jobs and this time everyone wanted to interview me. The two job offers I can't decide on is Neuro-Telemetry and Postpartum.

The Neuro-Telemetry position even offered me a 3k sign on bonus! Here's my dilemma...

I LOVED my LVN clinicals in L&D and LOVED Postpartum in my RN clinicals. I don't like med/surg so I'm sure I won't like tele, but the experience I'll get working in tele would be priceless! It's so hard getting into postpartum or anything in maternal nursing. My goal is to be able to work agency/registry and I'm not sure if the need for postpartum/ L&D nurses are as high as tele.

I'm leaning more towards postpartum. You?

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Nice to have to choose bet 2 job offers rather than none huh:) Welcome to the nursing shortage lol. I started out on Tele, speaking from my own experience, I was there for 4 months before offered an L and D position, and although I gained a ton of skills and knowledge in a short amount of time, I couldn't wait to get out of tele. Now L and D is a different kind of stress, but at the same time just a handful of meds you have to know vs. a plethora of them. It can be like ICU and disneyland all wrapped up in one if you are at a high-risk busy hospital. It really depends where your love is. I've been in L and D now for 16 yrs. and never looked back. There are a ton of registry positions (paying extremely high rates I might add) for L and D positions. I get calls weekly. Look on Indeed.com and you will see alot of open positions for L&D (at least in CA). Postpartum positions not so much I don't think. Good luck! My suggestion: go where your heart is:)

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Thanks so much! You know, as I was typing that post I thought to myself, "you've just answered your own question." LOL. For some reason it started making sense. I'm going with postpartum, the nurse manager said after a year she will have me crosstrain in L&D. I feel so lucky because it's so hard to get these positions.

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Specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.

Postpartum, if L/D is where you ultimately want to do. You'll gain some adult med surg skills in neuro/tele, but personally I don't know how applicable those skills will be to PP and L/D. We get postpartum cardiomyopathy patients on my cards floor, and we get the babies that are bfing. PP nurses have to come down and help us out because we have no idea what to do with the kids.

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Hi...it's been awhile. Curious did you stay in PP or move to L&D?

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