OR Nurse considering a new direction

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I posted this in the resume section but was wondering if it might be better here. I was recently contacted by a nurse recruiter for L&D at a local hospital. When I went to nursing school my area of passion was to work in Labor & Delivery and eventually the NICU. When I began looking for jobs I knew this was going to be a more difficult career path and took a position in an adult OR. The OR is my only RN position. So, I worked on my resume and made some changes to my resume. Used my email as a space for a cover letter and got a response from the recruiter. They are looking for RNs with at least one year med/surg... I am taking this to mean that they want 1 year in patient medical surgical floor nursing. I suppose I read between the lines that they would accept 1 year surgical nursing. How would you respond? My institution has accepted OR nurses into Labor and Delivery. In fact OR nursing is tangential experience since we can circulate and scrub... More than a c-section, which is a habitual problem, at least at our hospital. L&D nurses aren't prepared for traumas since they only do c-sections. Would you just leave it at that or ask them to contact you if they are accepting graduate nurses? I feel like it's their loss no to consider OR nurses as candidates. Ideas? I can't help but be disappointed... One of my big problems with OR nursing is that I feel like our skills are underestimated, leaving us pigeon holed. I don't want my only nursing experience to be as an OR nurse.

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