Need some advice

[ITALY123]

I have just recently gotten accepted to Chamberlain College of nursing, I am doing the 3 year BSN program. I am having troubles deciding if I want to specialize in OB or Cardiac. I heard people get tired of doing OB because it is the same thing all the time and Cardiac has alot more things to do and see involved. Can someone give me some advice on the pros and cons of these specialties? :heartbeat

[shoegalRN, RN]

I wouldnt worry about specializing until you graduate and pass boards. And hopefully, the economy will turn around and you will be able to land your first RN job in a hospital on a Med-Surg floor.

You may very well change your tune about any one speciality once you go through clinicals.

[shoegalRN, RN]

Oh, to answer your question, I started off in ICU now I'm in ER. In both areas, I had to learn Cardiac drugs, EKG interuptation, how to read strips, dysrhythimas, and ACLS. While in the ICU, I had to learn hemodynamics of the heart. All this is Cardiac. And you will have to learn ACLS in OB too, in addition to probably PALS.

I never worked in OB, but I did my clinicals during nursing school in OB, which included mother/baby and labor and delivery. I do not care to palpate a fundus, nor do I care for watching a fetal monitor from the desk all shift. I will say that I thought OB nurses operated under alot of automony. I did like the nursery, though.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

In the US we do not specialize until we are licensed. So take that worry rock out of your pocket.