From mental health back to SNF

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Hi guys,

I would just like to get some encouragement before I give my 2 week notice to my manager. I've been thinking about this for a long time, but when I graduated from nursing (May 2019), I was able to land a small medsurg job in a rural area. I was only there for 4 months (because I hated being away from my family; 4 hours away) and I started working in mental health (state hospital). I loved my psych rotation a lot when I was in nursing school so I went to that route (30 minutes away from home), or so I thought.

As much as I love my coworkers, the job isn't as exciting anymore as how I anticipated it to be. Even though I feel like it made my communication skills a lot better (talking to MD's/psychiatrists/patients), I think I am starting to lose the skills I learned in nursing school.

I recently got accepted at a SNF a lot closer to home. They told me that they will also train me for their subacute unit since they know that a lot of recent graduates want to move up to bigger establishments. I know it's going to be a big pay difference once I take this job but I really want to practice my skills and time management, and get more experience with medical side of nursing. Please tell me I am not overthinking this since this...

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

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You don't have skills to lose as a new graduate ...but if you're interested in trying something new, then try it. You can always switch back to mental health if you realize that's what you want in the future.

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What's nice about nursing is that you don't have to make all or nothing decisions on this.  You can always work PRN to keep fresh in a field. 

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