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I currently work in a single doctor office, and while it's a good job I'd much rather be in the hospital. This is my first nursing job since graduating and it has been okay but the distance in driving is starting to take it's toll with gas prices. I'm also tired of the person I share my job with never doing any work and leaving it for me. So I've been doing some job searching and I've come up with this: CCU 1st shift 8 hour days 3 days a week. This sounds ideal for me! I wanted a CCU job so bad when I graduated and I was offered a position however I had to decline because I was moving out of the state. Here are my concerns: I want a good reference letter for my next job when I move, I've been with my current employer for 14 months, and if I quit now I'd only have approximately 8 months to work in the hospital. The reason for this is my husband is in the Navy and our time will be up in 8 months for this duty station so we will be moving. What should I do? I guess the good thing to me quitting after 8 months isn't because I wanted to but because I had to with my husbands job and this will not be a problem in the future for he is getting out of the Navy. The CCU job is closer to home which is great and the hours are better and more than mine currently are. Any suggestions on what to do?

You sound like you're in the same situation with boards as I was when I finished school. I graduated in one state but was moving before I could take boards so I didn't know what to do. You can take boards in any state at any authorized testing center for any state. IE: I took VA state boards in RI. I was then licensed in VA but not the state I was going to be working in, and since it wasn't a compact state like VA, I had to endorse my license and it gets expensive!!! Boards are supposed to be the same no matter what state you take them from or that's what I was told. The reason I ended up taking them for VA and not for my employment state was because I had already paid the state of VA my money for boards before realizing I'd be moving to another state. If I could I wouldn't do the endorsement I would have just taken my employment state's boards. It's too much money and it takes quite a bit of time to transfer your license or at least it did for me. In my opinion it really just becomes a pain doing endorsements.