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In my experience, all new grads make pretty much the same thing when they are first hired. Some places I have worked pay L&D RN's more, as a critical care specialty, but that's few and far between.

Absolutely!

Cammy...I did L&D for 17 years, and for the first 15 of it HATED PP. The last 2 years I worked on an LDRP unit, and found that I really enjoyed the nights I did PP. I guess I was getting tired of the pace of L&D. By the time I left that unit 1 year ago, I was almost exclusively doing PP, by my own choice. I'm not working right now, but if I go back, it will be to NBN or PP, not L&D, unless it is another LDRP unit.:caduceus:

Barbyann....I'd have to say your situation is different. When everyone pulls together as a team, and bolsters each other, you have a much better system....which is what it sounds like you have. For a nurse to say, "I won't do that anymore"? It's time to go work outside of the hospital, honey, where you won't have to have that in your job description.

I've done OB off and on since 1988, and have done both 8 and 12 hour shifts. I preferred 12 hour shifts until I adopted my daughter, and I almost always did 7p-7a. I got into OB 10 months out of school, and just left it to stay home with my daughter (I grad. school in 1987) . It's a great field of nursing...I knew very early on that I was not very good with seriously ill people. OB does have it's own kinds of challenges that you won't know about until you get there, but it is a VERY rewarding place to work. I have taken care of women I will rememeber all my life, and been involved in births I will not soon forget, both good and bad. I saw my first precipitous delivery in clinicals, saw high forceps done, and took care of my first fetal demise as a newbie in OB. I still remember those women. Go for it!! You won't regret it! Best of luck!