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Very true about the hands-on skills. Thank you so much for your input and advice! I truly appreciate it. ?

Thank you so much for your replies! Do you guys think that it would be easy to transfer (i.e. will someone hire me) to a more acute care floor in pediatrics after a year or two of peds inpatient rehab if that was something I wanted?

Also, the hospital that offered me the adult nurse residency position is strictly an adult hospital and does not have any pediatric/nicu, etc units at any of its locations.

I am a new grad RN and was recently offered a position for an adult nurse residency program, rotate around different units for a year. Seems similar to nursing school but I'm sure it's good experience. I also just received an offer for a pediatric inpatient rehab job at a big children's hospital and would also do new grad orientation classes/skills for the first few months and deal with a wide variety of diagnoses. Pediatrics is where my heart is and what I ultimately want to do, but I'm not sure if inpatient rehab will allow me to advance to more acute care units within pediatrics after a year or so of inpatient rehab? I have no idea how any of this works, or which would be better. If I did the adult residency program for a year, would it be possible to switch to pediatrics soon after? Any advice on what route to go is helpful. Thank you!