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Thank you so much for your comments. I've talked to the mother whose son is the patient a few times, but I don't know whether she's working through an agency or not. She very well could be but I haven't talked to her in-depth to discuss it more. I think I'll be sticking to places I can do further research on and who can offer clear benefits and protection, just to be safe. Since I already sent out my resume twice, there's nothing I can do about that sadly. I just hope that everything will be OK. But I have removed my address from my resume and I won't be sending it out blindly anymore. The burner email sounds like a good idea, too. Thanks again.

I apologize if I posted this in the wrong area, but I would like some feedback and advice. I'm currently job searching as a new grad. The market is very competitive right now and I want to keep an open mind while looking for a job. I'm in a Facebook group called "New Grad RN" in which members post about things such as current job listings. For home care positions, in which you're contacting a person who needs help for someone they know, how can you know that that job is legitimate? I've sent out my resume on faith twice that the positions were legitimate, but I realized - maybe in my strong desire to find a job and get experience - that my decision may have been dangerous as my resume has personal information, such as my address and contact information. Does anyone have any experience in contacting people about these kind of positions? It's easy enough to look up a hospital to make sure it's real, but when it's a mother who needs help with her son who has said disease, how do you look into it? I don't want to be scammed or put in any danger.

I think so, too. I'm sure that I'll be able to manage whatever I end up with and learn a lot. I just want something where at the end of the day I can go, "Wow, that was great. I can't wait until my next shift," versus just trying to get through it.

I'm in my final year of nursing school and my application to choose what to capstone in next semester is due this Friday. I always thought I would choose pediatrics, but now I'm questioning if I should choose OB. The problem is that they've combined the peds and maternity clinicals this semester so that we get 5 weeks in peds and 4 weeks in maternity (1 shift per week). I've already had 3 weeks in peds but I have no idea what to expect for maternity. For our application, we're supposed to list our top 3 choices. Part of me wants to list OB as my #1 choice because I find the class material more interesting, but I think it's a huge gamble considering I've never been in OB clinical yet. Can anyone tell me what I can expect in OB and some of the pros and cons of peds versus OB?