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Hello all,

I'm a nursing student in Canada and I'm choosing my consolidation placement. My options are general medicine, surgery, neurology, pediatrics, and cardiology. What is your advice on how I should rank them? i.e. what will give me better experience for flight nursing or are they all equal and should I just look at location?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Flight.
Hello all,

I'm a nursing student in Canada and I'm choosing my consolidation placement. My options are general medicine, surgery, neurology, pediatrics, and cardiology. What is your advice on how I should rank them? i.e. what will give me better experience for flight nursing or are they all equal and should I just look at location?

If your ultimate goal is flight nursing your initial goal should be to aim for a critical care or ER position. From your list above I would vote for cardiology as a placement. This assumes that by cardiology it is a unit that deals with acute as well as chronic cardiac conditions.

A typical progression is cardiac (aka telemetry) unit, critical care unit, ER, then flight.

Depending on the program and its emphasis this change of course (a pediatric program would obviously desire greater peds experience). General speaking in a RN/ Paramedic program the RN is expected to bring hospital based critical care expertise to the table.

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

Moved to Nursing Student Programs forum.

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