I’m a new grad trying to get out of a pediatric psych position. I got all kinds of leadership skills and assessment skills but it was a toxic work environment.
I interviewed at for labor and delivery, my second favorite area of nursing, and I thought it went great. They said lots of positive things about me and the interview and said they’d call me in a week.
Instead, they sent my information to the psych unit in the hospital because they thought that would be a better fit for me than “mommies and babies”
Its very discouraging and I feel a little bit rude of them to do? It also seems like I’ll always be in psych now until I go back to school for something else.
Thank you everyone for your replies. I am most likely going to cancel the interview early tomorrow morning. I was suppose to interview at 10 tomorrow but after reading these I think y’all are right now to waste their time or mine If I know it’s not what I want.
I would stay at my current job if I wanted to continue in psych.
I think I will call them early tomorrow morning to cancel my interview in psych. During my interview with L and D they asked why the switch and I told them that I loved psychiatric peds because I think childhood is a huge milestone where you can make an impact, however as a new grad I want to learn more medical skills and critical thinking. L and D was my second love because I felt it was another big milestone where you can make a difference and still find psych. Psych is in everything.
I thought I made it very clear in my interview but maybe that wasn’t a good answer.
Thank you for your input.
I think these two highllighted areas are why they thought psych might be a better fit for you.
Next time talk about what strengths you could bring to L and D and why you WANT L and D. You did not bring up any skills in L and D that would want. I think by saying Psych does not use critical thinking skills could have also been a turn off as well. You could have mentioned how critical thinking skills in psych could relate to critical thinking skills in L and D.
I think these two highllighted areas are why they thought psych might be a better fit for you.
Next time talk about what strengths you could bring to L and D and why you WANT L and D. You did not bring up any skills in L and D that would want. I think by saying Psych does not use critical thinking skills could have also been a turn off as well. You could have mentioned how critical thinking skills in psych could relate to critical thinking skills in L and D.
Good Luck on your next interview!!
I agree with the advice above. It's really challenging to explain why you want to make a switch without sounding negative about the previous specialty. If I were the interviewer, I would have thought that you were passionate in psych, and the switch might not be a wise decision.
I am not necessarily a brand new nurse. But I already had two different jobs before I even hit 18 months of working as an RN. I had some interviews for pediatric nurse position (I was mainly working with geriatric patients at my full time jobs before I quit). I explained why I changed jobs a lot, but I also kept emphasizing on my desire to serve kids and their families during interview (I was also thinking that my prn job in a pediatric daycare center helped). Praise God, she offered me the position few days later.
From what I read, yes I understand that L&D is your passion, you just need to assure them that you have desire to serve moms and their babies.
However, I think you've made a great resume that could land you an interview for L&D position! (Based on my understanding, that's very hard to get the interview if you're not either a new grad or experienced in that specialty).
JSB2018
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Thank you everyone for your replies. I am most likely going to cancel the interview early tomorrow morning. I was suppose to interview at 10 tomorrow but after reading these I think y’all are right now to waste their time or mine If I know it’s not what I want.
I would stay at my current job if I wanted to continue in psych.