This isn't the usual "to med-surg or not to med-surg" question, but something a little deeper.
I want to work in the OR. It is the one thing I have a passion for. I don't want to work med-surg as a career, but I think I would like to do it for a year or two for the experience. I don't necessarily feel like every nurse should go to med-surg first; I just think I want it for my own development as a nurse.
I thought I'd like to do med-surg for about a year and then switch over to the OR. Then if I truly love the OR as much as I think I do, I'll stay there. If it turns out I don't like it, at least I have med-surg experience to fall back on or as a foundation for moving on to something else.
The problem is this; one of the requirements for every OR internship I've seen is that the candidate "must have no prior nursing experience." I'm afraid that if I don't go right into an OR internship I won't get accepted later on.
So I don't know if it would work the other way around - OR first, then med-surg or go right into the OR? Has anyone else done it this way?
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