Considering RN job in PP Nursery

First, you will not loose skills but you might lose them.

Loose = not tight pronounced like Luce, as in Clare Booth
past tense = loosened; I loosened it; I made it looser.

Lose = you have it now but might find it gone; pronounced like a "z"

lose = you do not win at a game. That is losing the game. past tense = lost a loser = one who is considered not a winner

Sorry, I'm not picking on you, the confusion these words cause just bugs me. Please don't be mad.

As for changing jobs - it is hard to give up a non-stressful job. But maybe you could shadow in the nursery for a few hours and see what you like and don't like, see what they do. Lots of sticking little heels, for sure. Feeding, diapering, collecting urine probably, taking babes to moms for feeding, dying a thousand deaths in fear that you gave the wrong babe to a mom or something like that; weights, feedings of those whose moms can't feed them for whatever reason, lots of teaching, teaching, teaching; helping dads give the first bath, probably tons of paperwork; also, do you really want to work graveyard? Sounds like you prefer Peds work. Why did you leave it for Psych? What does ETA mean? I thought it meant Estimated Time of Arrival.

Best wishes to you, keep us informed.

Learn newborns well--you don't want to miss anything if they transition badly and you don't catch that.

Otherwise, I'd go for it.

I would consider that nurseries are a thing of the past. There are still a few old school nurseries hanging around but most hospitals are getting rid of them as they remodel. So consider that you may end up working postpartum (mother/baby couplets) or labor and delivery if your nursery goes away also. That would be good for maintaining clinical skills but not good if it isn't what you want to do. Good luck.

It is really going to depend on the set up this hospital has. Some hospitals are keeping their "old school" nurseries as a step down from NICU. So you have NICU pts and well babies just passing through. Are you hoping to eventually work NICU? If babies were your favorite part of PICU....

Hey!
You're from OK, right? I think I talked to you a couple of years ago when we were contemplating nursing school/pa school etc. I went to OU. Well I do postpartum now, I've been doing it since graduation. I love it, but as far as nursing skills...I haven't started an IV in over a year...it's a lot of psych, med pushing, and education. I too thought that couplet care was not an option for me, but now that I've floated to nursery for a while, I'd consider it. I'm about to move back to Tulsa, and actually considered psych. Do you have any idea what base pay for rn with 2-3 yr experience is in Oklahoma now? When I was there in 07' it was like $17.50...
ps I would have PMed you all this, but I guess you have to be registered now to PM people.