Is a working at a clinic or outpatient setting helpful to your career

[dulcet]

Or it is better to work at a hospital or nursing home or something. My question is if I am curious to later get my RN and go into case management or something. Will my experience there be helpful?

[CaliBoy760]

I do not believe that ANY nursing job can be unhelpful. That said, my first real nursing job was at a VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). As a new LVN it was a tremendous learning environment. Lot's of different injections, blood draws, lab results interpretations, EKG's, etc. I would highly recommend the experience to any nurse,

[dulcet]

I do not believe that ANY nursing job can be unhelpful. That said, my first real nursing job was at a VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). As a new LVN it was a tremendous learning environment. Lot's of different injections, blood draws, lab results interpretations, EKG's, etc. I would highly recommend the experience to any nurse,

Thanks for the response! Can I ask how you got that job?

[T-Bird78]

And don't listen to the idiots who say that clinic nursing isn't real nursing (yes, I saw someone post that comment on this site).

[CaliBoy760]

I had email alerts with every possible job board and it just popped up one day...the hiring process took forever, though.