BuckeyeGuy

I have a quick question I want to pose to this board about nursing. My wife is almost done with school. She'll be pinning in a could weeks, and we've been talking about where and how much she'll work. She really likes the ER, but her working in the ER scares me from an infectious disease perspective. She doesn't have the best immune system in the world, and I'm concerned that a: she'll catch everything under the sun, and b: bring it home to the kids (5 ranging in ages 1-9). She's telling me that if you talk to anyone in the field they'll tell you that being a floor nurse makes you more likely to catch something. That doesn't seem to make sense to me because at least you know what's going on there whereas in the ER, you could be treating something with something pretty nasty and not even know it. The other part of that conversation is how much to work. We'll be moving to a bigger city in about a year. She's concerned that if she waits a year to start working that will cause issues with all the continuing education a nurse is suppose to do. I can't recall what she called it. Some information would be very helpful. Thanks