Transition to maternal child health

not2bblue · Jul 8, 2018

Apply. Prepare for the interview. Most places do the behavior questions "tell me about a time you had a conflict and how you would handle it differently now" so knowing everything l&d doesn't really help. My experience only: NICU is the hardest specialty to get in followed by l&d. Postpartum in many hospitals are totally separate and they don't EVER float to ld ever but might go to nicu for feeder growers. Some places ld nurses don't EVER float to postpartum. Where I work now we do ldrp and so they want everyone hired to be able to do labor AND postpartum. Nicu totally separate and we don't EVER float to it nor them to us. So it is important to know what you want to do and what the specifications are where you apply because it is a little different than med surg where you could float anywhere. Once you decide research a little about what you will do, but of course you won't "really" know and the managers know this. My hospital does an internship for non experienced in labor so look around for that. Honestly though, any specialty is difficult to get into without experience (how do you get it then??) so just be persistent. Good luck.