Advice, please! job offers.

[Flavs]

As a new grad I am excited to enter this profession and there are so many areas of nursing I am interested in!! I am young and willing :)

I am debating accepting a job offer for ONC floor or Med-surg floor. Similar schedules, and pay. Both have many positives, and I see myself loving both.

My question would be, is starting off in ONC as a new grad limiting myself to just oncology nursing? Or is experience in oncology nursing welcomed for other areas? (Critical care is another area I would be interested in at some point.)

I feel like many new grads have the opportunity to start med-surg, but not as many get offers for ONC as it's a specialty.... Is this true?

Can anyone shed some light??

Thanks in advance!!

[Emilynn09]

I've been working on an oncology floor for about three months now, and it can be very busy like you would expect on a med/surg floor and you also get to use a variety of skills, you don't really narrow it to only oncology things. I am still doing feeding tubes, IVs, Foleys, Post-Surgical care, dressing changes, you name it! I really LOVE oncology. It was my dream to eventually become a nurse and work with Oncology patients and, I, like you, got the offer right out of school.

I know I'm not super experienced, and don't have a ton of advice to offer, but I don't think that by working in oncology for your first job will get you "stuck" in that specialty if you ever want to leave. You'd still have other options. I wouldn't worry. If you want to go for Oncology, then go for it. It's an amazing and rewarding specialty from what I can tell so far.