Published Dec 31, 2009
pacuRN26
17 Posts
Hi, so this is my situation. I graduated with my BSN in May 2009. I got my RN license in August. I had such a hard time finding a job, I applied to a million jobs and could NOT find a job. I was then offered a job at out-patient surgical Family planning center, meaning pregnancy terminations for the most part. Though I was pro-choice, I was hesitant to take the job, but I did. I ended up working in the PACU/Recovery for the most part. But I also circulated in the OR. I also circulated/recovered vasectomy, tubal ligations, hysteroscopies, colposcopies, LEEPs, etc. All of these are done mostly under twilight anesthesia or sometimes general. So I've worked there for 4 months but I was hired on temporarily but they kept me but I only work 2-3 days a week.....
I recently got a job offer in an OB-GYN office, just seeing OB patients and GYNE patients. It is an office setting so there isn't much to do, rooming patients, a lot of phone triaging, drawing blood basically things an MA could do asside for the phone triaging. I took a 50 cent pay cut but it is full time.
I eventually want to become an FNP...With my first job it would have been easier to be in school and work 2-3 days a week, do it part time still and be done in 3-ish years, by that time I will have had 3 years of RN experience.
However, I took my full time OB-GYN job offer because i desperately need to work full time, my question is... are there any programs in Illinois where there are night/weekend classes for an FNP...I know there are online programs but are they frowned upon by potential employers? Will the OB-GYN experience be sufficient for by the time im done doing a part time FNP program?
I might still keep my PACU/OR job for saturdays so I will continue to have OR/PACU experience but mostly I am wanting to take the OB-GYN office job..they also do tubals, hysterctomies and etc but rarely. The doctors are also training in robotics and acupuncture so I will have had some nursing expereince in those two areas as well. Will I still be able to get an FNP job with this experience once I am done in 3-4 years?
I am just trying to plan for the future and I am hoping to find an FNP program that can offer me one class at a time or something so I can still work full time. Do any of you still work full time and go to FNP school, I don't see how I could do it seeing as Id work like a 9-5 everyday.
Please help, any advice is appreciated!