Community vs psych nursing before LD

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Hi there,

I am a new grad and am interested in getting into labour and delivery nursing. Because I had no clinical experience in this area, I am doing a labour and delivery certificate at a nearby college and decided to look for a part time nursing job in the meantime to get my career started.

I just received two job offers from different places and I'm having a very difficult time in choosing one.

One is a home care company and the other is an eating disorders unit at a nearby hospital .

In the future I plan on finishing my certificate, working in LD and then getting my Nurse Practitioner in either neonatal area or womens health.

Which part time job do you think would be more beneficial to my future?

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Specializes in Postpartum, Med Surg, Home Health.

I would take the hospital job. For this reason, you will already be in the system and it will be easier to transfer as an internal employee to labor and delivery. You will be able to meet more people and network inside a hospital than in home care. In home care you will be pretty secluded.

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Specializes in LDRP.

It's been a few days, not sure if you picked one yet, but I'd go with the hospital job on the ED unit. You will probably be predominantly working with young women/adolescent girls so it's less of a stretch to OB nursing. There is definitely a way to spin that experience as a positive on your resume when applying to OB floors in the future. You will also get the experience of working in a hospital, which is quite different than home care.

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