Need help on which job to chose!!!

changeofpaceRN · Mar 17, 2006

I would choose what you enjoy most.. follow your heart. Too many people go after money then dread going into work. However, If I was comfortable in a place, knew and liked the workers, I'd stay with that in a heartbeat

jlisle · Mar 18, 2006

I agree. If your not happy in your work it effects how you do your job. In the same token, as a new grad it's nice to start out in an environment that your familiar with. No need to worry about getting to know your staff, hospital policy, procedure, ward routine etc. I don't know about you but as a new grad I was worried enough about how I was going to manage without the comfort zone of calling myself a "student" and my preceptor. I started work in the ER where I did my preceptorship and it worked out very well for me. Made it a little easier transition from student to RN I think. But ultimately it's up to you. Maybe you like change more than I do.

Good luck to you!

Janet

Daye · Mar 18, 2006

Follow your heart! A happy heart make the work seem light

amylou85 · Mar 22, 2006

Familiarity breeds contentment- its easy to stay and do what you know but think of all the new experiences you might miss if you pass up the other. Do what "YOU" feel you will be the happiest with. Sometimes you really don't know the best choice until you made the wrong choice- but thats ok because its all a learning experience. Its always difficult to make a change and go on to something unfamiliar but remain positive and give your all.amy

suzanne4, RN · Mar 22, 2006

You definitely need to follow what you would like to do.

One place is a given, you know that you like the facility, the staff, etc.

The other? What exactly do you know about them?

And what happens if you do not like #2, can you go back to #1? Will they have a position, or will you need to stay at #2 for the year?

My gut feeling, is to tell you to stay where you are. You learned quite a bit as a student, but the world is going to change tremendously for you over the next year and you wil be learning by leaps and bounds. It is quite different when you will now be under your own license..........very different.

And the pay is better.................but you are the one to make the ultimate decision.

And it is much harder to take care of a little heart, than a large one, if you get the experience with that, and decide later that you want big hearts, the transition is very easy. On average with the cardiac kids, you use about 15 different syringe pumps, correct? And with adults, it comes down to a few drugs, relatively, speaking.

PA catheters are not being used as much any more in the CVICU arena as they once were.

weetziebat · Mar 22, 2006

Sometimes you really don't know the best choice until you made the wrong choice-

Boy, is this ever true! My advice would be to follow your heart. No one else can tell you what is best for you. Good luck in whatever you choose.

Fonenurse · Mar 23, 2006

The period when you first qualify is really strange - it's what you always wanted and yet you really feel the pressure of keeping your licence with all that you do. Where better to be than somewhere you already know and where folk know you, so that you can make the most of your preceptorship period? You can always move on later when you have some great experience under your belt?

What ever you choose I wish you much happiness.

LoriAlabamaRN · Mar 23, 2006

I would definately stay where you are. You will have enough pressure on you being a new grad, you don't need to have to learn a new facility with a bunch of new faces. You sound like you are comfortable where you are. Don't risk losing that.