Advice, please! job offers.

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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!!

Specializes in Emergency.

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.

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