Need career advice!

[jennyx33]

Hi everyone,

I just need some career advice and I have no clue where else to turn to except here. I am a new nurse graduate. I graduated last year in May, licensed in June and found my first job as a RN in September. I am currently working at an adult social daycare center as a community nurse. There is a lot of patient education and assessement involved. I have learned things but there are no clinical work involve. I feel like Im forgetting all my nursing skills and I feel like there is no growth at my current job. I love my coworkers but hate the managenent. I started to apply for new jobs. I want to find a position in the hospital and get that golden one year of med urg position so that I can go anywhere I want afterwards. Im not really sure what I want to specialize in (but Im leaning more on peds). Ive been applying all over, but as an inexperienced new grad in New York City, its been extremely difficult. After lots of rejection, I applied as a dialysis nurse at DaVita. I have an interview for next week. My question is, if I work as a dialysis nurse, will I have difficulty jumping into a different area of nursing? Eventually I would like to get a feel of what its like to be a floor nurse.

Im so confused now. Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for reading my long post!