uofi15

I am a new grad RN and have two job offers and I need some help deciding which one is better for my overall career goal. I would like to eventually transition to an ICU and then return to school in a CRNA program. The two positions have similar pay but are at two different hospitals. One hospital is a large trauma 1 facility and the other is a medium size regional hospital. The position at the level 1 hospital is a general medicine floor that does not have any nurse assistants. When shadowing there the nurse I was following told me she did not like working there. The position at the medium size hospital is on a neurology-neurosurgical floor. Both places would offer advancement to an ICU evenutally (after a year at the large hospital would be eligible to apply for transfers, and after 6 months at the smaller facility eligible to apply for transfers). I guess my question is which offers me the best experience and would give me the edge when applying to CRNA school? Is it worth it to work a year on a floor that the nurses told me they do not like to get more experience do to the fact it is a bigger hospital and therefore would then be a bigger ICU or should I work on a floor in a more specialized area and gain that experience and transition to their ICU?

I am a new grad RN and have two job offers and I need some help deciding which one is better for my overall career goal. I would like to eventually transition to an ICU and then return to school in a CRNA program. The two positions have similar pay but are at two different hospitals. One hospital is a large trauma 1 facility and the other is a medium size regional hospital. The position at the level 1 hospital is a general medicine floor that does not have any nurse assistants. When shadowing there the nurse I was following told me she did not like working there. The position at the medium size hospital is on a neurology-neurosurgical floor. Both places would offer advancement to an ICU evenutally (after a year at the large hospital would be eligible to apply for transfers, and after 6 months at the smaller facility eligible to apply for transfers). I guess my question is which offers me the best experience and would give me the edge when applying to CRNA school? Is it worth it to work a year on a floor that the nurses told me they do not like to get more experience do to the fact it is a bigger hospital and therefore would then be a bigger ICU or should I work on a floor in a more specialized area and gain that experience and transition to their ICU?