Looking for a job with only Ambulatory Care experience

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Hi,

I've been an RN since 2012 and have only worked in an outpatient clinic for 6 years. I don't have any acute care experience. I know it's a unique situation and I wish I had done more with my career back then. Anyway, I wasn't happy at that job and I finally left last year. I thought I wanted to pursue an NP role but that fell through. Now I'm struggling getting back into the work field. A lot of positions want acute care experience. I'm looking into outpatient surgery centers, urgent care, but I also want to get experience in acute care. I was looking into Residency programs but those are for new grads which technically I am not, or Transition into Practice programs but I haven't found any. I don't know if the pandemic is affecting this. Just trying to figure out the best direction I should go.

Any advice or insight anyone can give, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

My hospital runs programs that we call "Externships" that are a residency for experienced nurses looking to change specialties. They are very popular, extremely difficult to get into and most of the time filled with internal candidates. You may consider trying to find an ambulatory care position within a large healthcare organization and go from there.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Case Management, Clinic, Psychiatry.

OP, any luck?

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