Hi- I am a new grad who has been looking for a job for almost 5 months. I have been offered 2 very different jobs. One is a nurse on a locked psych unit in a hospital the other is working in a nursing home/rehab on a subacute unit. I am struggling to choose between jobs they are both the 3-11 shift one is 32hrs/wk the other 40hrs/wk. The psych pays more and has much better benefits but do you lose your assessment skills by being a psych nurse and if in a year or so you want to change jobs how does it affect that? I know the unit does have chronically ill patients but not like a med surg floor the subacute has more of a med surge feel to it. Can anyone shed some light?