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Hi all, I’m a recent grad interested in oncology, and I’m lucky enough to have two offers on my plate right now. I have an addition bachelors degree in public relations and hope to one day join the two degrees together to work as a medical director for a nonprofit, work in administration, or work as a cancer nurse navigator. I’m really attracted to both these job offers and honestly don’t know what to do. The first offer is on a med-surg oncology floor at a hospital. I got an offer for days. I went and shadowed the unit and I liked it but I can tell I would get overwhelmed it’s so busy and I had really bad anxiety all through nursing school in my clinicals that involved bedside nursing. I never wanted to work in bedside for long, but I know it’s a big point to a lot of people for all nurses to do it for the skills development. The second offer is nearby this hospital but is a cancer center. It’s one of the best in the nation and has an awesome reputation for oncology. The position is an ambulatory residency and after the residency we can choose our home unit of either radiation, infusions, or a clinic. It’s M-F, no holidays, weekends, nights. I love all these aspects, and as a second time career goer I’m not turned off by 5 days a week. The position involved a lot of education, and I’ll get to build better relationships with the patients because I’ll see them so often. They mentioned I’ll build some awesome assessment skills, and that the infusion and radiation are pretty hands on, but I’m worried if I take this position if I ever have to go to bedside I won’t be taken seriously due to lack of skills and that scares me. Please help! I need nurse opinions cause of course my mom likes the idea of me being home for holidays haha.

Hi all, I’m a recent grad interested in oncology, and I’m lucky enough to have two offers on my plate right now. I have an addition bachelors degree in public relations and hope to one day join the two degrees together to work as a medical director for a nonprofit, work in administration, or work as a cancer nurse navigator. I’m really attracted to both these job offers and honestly don’t know what to do. The first offer is on a med-surg oncology floor at a hospital. I got an offer for days. I went and shadowed the unit and I liked it but I can tell I would get overwhelmed it’s so busy and I had really bad anxiety all through nursing school in my clinicals that involved bedside nursing. I never wanted to work in bedside for long, but I know it’s a big point to a lot of people for all nurses to do it for the skills development. The second offer is nearby this hospital but is a cancer center. It’s one of the best in the nation and has an awesome reputation for oncology. The position is an ambulatory residency and after the residency we can choose our home unit of either radiation, infusions, or a clinic. It’s M-F, no holidays, weekends, nights. I love all these aspects, and as a second time career goer I’m not turned off by 5 days a week. The position involved a lot of education, and I’ll get to build better relationships with the patients because I’ll see them so often. They mentioned I’ll build some awesome assessment skills, and that the infusion and radiation are pretty hands on, but I’m worried if I take this position if I ever have to go to bedside I won’t be taken seriously due to lack of skills and that scares me. Please help! I need nurse opinions cause of course my mom likes the idea of me being home for holidays haha.

My parents say I'm too far in now to quit and that they know I'll be a good nurse. Everyone is supportive of my going back to school except me it seems lol.

First post here, hello! I've been having some serious doubts about nursing school. This is my second degree. I have an additional bachelors and after working in the field a few years, decided to return to school for my BSN. I didn't HATE my career field, but I didn't love it. I didn't go to work and feel like I was helping anyone or making an impact. I always loved the idea of nursing, and I love helping people. I got into a graduate program for social work, but decided on nursing instead for job security, etc. I'm in my second semester, and am coming to the end of my first clinical rotation. I hate it. I literally dread going to clinical every week. I hate that all I see nurses doing on my floor is passing meds- I don't want to feel like every day of work is just a constant task list with really no time for a legitimate conversation with my patient. I love the time I get to spend one on one with them, but know when I have 6 patients I won't have the time for that same kind of interaction. I'm really confused and feel like I made a huge mistake. I'm older than all my fellow students, and I feel even more pressure continuing if I end up hating it. Everyone else really enjoys our time at the hospital, and I'm just staring at the clock. I'm going to give it another semester in a different clinical setting to see if I like it more, but I'm feeling like right now it isn't a fit for me. I know there are ways I can join my old career with a medical aspect (although no clinical) and feel like if I quit I have just wasted time and will have been a failure. Any advice would be so appreciated!