New Grad RN neuro ICU or ER advice please.

[parjan4]

I am a new grad with an associate's degree eager to get experience in doing what i love to do. I am being offered two positions but i'm unsure which one fits me best (one in the neuro icu and the other in the ER). By the way i have no experience as an RN but i am a fast learner, from your experience which one do u think will fit me best or which one do you think i will gain the most from at the beginning of my career?

[aeauooo]

I'll have to tell you right off the bat that I am biased. I've been a neuro nurse for 16 years and think there is no area of nursing more fascinating.

Where are you? In which city are you being offered a neuro ICU gig?

The annual meeting of the American Association of Neuroscience Nursing is in Nashville next week - this will be the first time I've attended since 2003 and I'm really looking forward to it.

You might want to flip through a couple of articles from the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing to see if anything interests you. Here are some freebies:

http://www.aann.org/ce/pdf/index.htm