NurseLash

Thank you for your honest response. I am an older nurse and I was just trying to see am I making the right career move. I have no hospital experience at all. I always wanted to do med surg but could not ever get a position. So I went on with other ventures. It will be all new to me and trying to grasp a whole new aspect of nursing. I have to get accumulated into learning new ways of nursing and bringing back things that I have totally forgot and have not used in previous positions. It is going to a long road but I am going to make the best of it. I am not going to lie, I am terrified.

Questions for those who works in medsurg. I am a nurse (LPN) of 14 years. I started in a nursing home as new nurse and worked that route for about 6-7 years, then I worked in urgent care, orthopedics (along working in Hospice while working in ortho) and the the last 5 years I worked in Family medicine. I am now about to take a new venture into med surg on third shift, 7p-7a. My question is, can you give me some advice on what to expect and what I should be looking out for when working in med surg. Am I doing the right thing in my nursing career as a LPN in going into med surg now? Is this a hard career choice to go into? I do not know anyone personally who works in med surg to ask.