LPN of 6yrs/new RN now

[bound&determined91, ADN, LPN, RN]

Hello to all my fellow nurses,

I am writing this just to get some insight. A little background about me I worked as a LPN for 6 years. I dabbled in hospice dialysis long-term care Psych and ended up working in Internal Medicine for almost a year and that is my current job as we speak. I just recently passed my RN NCLEX and unfortunately there is no role transition for me right now because they don't need a RN in Internal Medicine. The reason I chose Internal Medicine in the beginning when I was working as LPN was just because I wanted to try something different I was kind of burnt out with all the jobs that I've had previously and just wanted to try something different. I do work for a hospital and I am part of their physician division it's a very good hospital.. I guess what I'm trying to ask or say is that I don't know what I want to do at all. I am very nervous to accept any position and not get the training. I don't know what specialty I would even want to go into. I've even thought about taking the school nurse certification test too.. I want to one day become a traveling nurse but I know that you need to have some type of med-surg experience or something? I guess I'm just looking for guidance on where I should start where I would get the most knowledge to go out and venture into any type of nursing or even accepting a position that I feel I would be confident in my skills.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Please describe your current role. I don't know what "working in Internal Medicine" entails.

[bound&determined91, ADN, LPN, RN]

I'm working in a primary care setting/ urgent care for my hospital.  Rooming, triaging phone calls, ekgs, injection, labs, prior authorization, wound care. I did this while working as a Lpn, but now that I have my RN I don't know what to do.

[bound&determined91, ADN, LPN, RN]

14 minutes ago, Been there,done that said:

Please describe your current role. I don't know what "working in Internal Medicine" entails.

I'm working in a primary care setting/ urgent care for my hospital.  Rooming, triaging phone calls, ekgs, injection, labs, prior authorization, wound care. I did this while working as a Lpn, but now that I have my RN I don't know what to do.

[Sour Lemon]

5 hours ago, bound&determined91 said:

Hello to all my fellow nurses,

I am writing this just to get some insight. A little background about me I worked as a LPN for 6 years. I dabbled in hospice dialysis long-term care Psych and ended up working in Internal Medicine for almost a year and that is my current job as we speak. I just recently passed my RN NCLEX and unfortunately there is no role transition for me right now because they don't need a RN in Internal Medicine. The reason I chose Internal Medicine in the beginning when I was working as LPN was just because I wanted to try something different I was kind of burnt out with all the jobs that I've had previously and just wanted to try something different. I do work for a hospital and I am part of their physician division it's a very good hospital.. I guess what I'm trying to ask or say is that I don't know what I want to do at all. I am very nervous to accept any position and not get the training. I don't know what specialty I would even want to go into. I've even thought about taking the school nurse certification test too.. I want to one day become a traveling nurse but I know that you need to have some type of med-surg experience or something? I guess I'm just looking for guidance on where I should start where I would get the most knowledge to go out and venture into any type of nursing or even accepting a position that I feel I would be confident in my skills.

Thanks for reading.

 

If you're not sure what you want to to do in the future, I think med/surg or telemetry would be good places to start. School nursing is way too narrow, especially if you're hoping to work as a traveler someday.