luv2surf

Please bare with me I have visited this site quite frequently during nursing school and prior to NCLEX. I'm baaackkk........I could use some advice from veteran nurses. So here goes........I am a mature nurse 48 years old mature and I passed NCLEX in August. I moved back to San Diego,California to take care of my mother who is elderly. I accepted a position at a very well known institution on a surgical acute floor. It is very fast paced and I'm learning tons and stressed to no end. I am in my last week of orientation, and I should be grateful that I've lasted this long and have a job, but I started looking for new grad positions in the ED. I enjoyed my clinical rotations in ED in school, but I was told that I should probably try to get one year of med-surg under my belt. Being as I am a older nurse, I don't know if I should stick it out in Surgical Acute, I'm not happy in surgical acute, or should I should I take my chances and apply to a new grad program offering a preceptorship in ED, or stick it out on surgical acute for a year. Its not like I'm a spring chicken, its like my biological clock is ticking for the ED. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.