Re: Peds Hospitals Hiring?
I don't know for sure where you are looking, but unless you go to a specialty children's hospital, most standard hospitials have a mixed unit on pediatrics. I work on a floor called pediatrics, but we get overflow. We try to keep it a women's and children's unit. Post partums, gyn surgerys and that kind of thing, but we actually get overflow from all over the hospital.
I have cared for a 3 day old and a geriatric patient in the same day. It is not uncommon. Hospitals are going to put patients where ever there is a bed. The only problem is we are the only floor that takes pediatrics.
I guess my point is that to get experience on med/surg or somewhere else would probably do you some good. Get your feet wet, so to speak.
It would also get you established in a hospital then you could transfer when a position came open. Most pediatric nurses are there because they like it and they stay a long time.
Good luck
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