General nursing question?

I'd say knock off more than a few dollars ...especially as a new graduate. Are you sure you want to be a nurse and not a medical assistant? MAs are much more common in doctor's offices, although they frequently refer to themselves as "nurses". As for actual nurses, LPN verses RN makes for quite the difference in pay, too.

To further rain on your parade, I know that in my area that new grads are not hired in physicians' offices. The physicians tend to prefer nurses who have experience. (For example, all of the nurses in my OB/GYN's office were L&D nurses).

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but if I wanted to work in a family practice office, which unit of the hospital should I work in?

Have you been accepted to nursing school?

No, not yet.

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but if I wanted to work in a family practice office, which unit of the hospital should I work in?

Hospital nursing is pretty different from office nursing. What sorts of tasks do you envision yourself doing? What's drawing you to "nursing" to start out with? Where are you in the educational process?

When I worked in the hospital, clinic nurses made about 20% less than the floor nurses and, at a private doctor's office, they would generally make even less than a clinic within a hospital. A primary care office job would probably be a $10-$15/hr pay cut for me.

You would need to build experience prior to working family medicine.

Consider bedside nursing for 1-2 years.