JoDanielle

Hello nursing world. I am a RN student about to graduate in a couple weeks. I am thinking about moving back home for awhile to be with family and help them out. Therefore, I am looking at getting a nursing job near home. The catch is that home just happens to be in the middle of nowhere Idaho. The nearest hospital to me is an hour an a half drive and it is a little rural, critical access hospital. I have done my precepting hours there and I love it. It's a wonderful place. At this hospital there aren't specialized floors or nurses, your it for everything. During my precepting we had a lady partsl delivery, 2 babies postpardum, COPD patient, Knee replacement surgery, and 2 pediatric tonsilectomies all in one week. Needless to say you've gotta be flexible and know allot in all areas. My question to you is, do you think this is a good place to start as a graduate RN? Am I limiting myself as an RN or getting the most out of it with all the different areas of service?

In just a short week and a half I will be graduating with my RN degree. Soon after graduation I will take my state boards and hopefully pass and then be on my way to my first job as an RN. I would like to reach out to all you awesome nurses out there and ask what advice you have to offer to a new grad RN? What are some things that you wish you would have known your first year of nursing? Or What does being a nurse mean to you, what's your outlook on it, what has kept you going through all your years?