Resignation from a job

Did you only just start trying to transfer? If so, I would wait awhile and see if you can get in at the children's hospital. If not or you want to make this transition now, I'd commit to another hospital and stay on at the children's clinic PRN. If they didn't have to train you I'd feel another way about it, but you're changing specialties here, so my thought is that if they are committing to you (via an orientation), you should commit to them.

You should most definitely NOT tell the hiring manager you don't intend to stay. If you were a hiring manager, would you hire someone who came to an interview and said "I only want to work here so I can get hospital experience which will help me get an inpatient position at the Children's Hospital?" No, you wouldn't.

I also don't think it's a great idea to apply to a job that you think you may leave during orientation or shortly thereafter. It won't help you if you do that and could end up getting you blacklisted from that hospital/hospital system. Most hospitals expect to get a return on their investment after they train you. If the transfer to the main hospital is already in progress, I'd wait.

Thanks for replying! I'm just curious if anyone knows anything I can do to gain more experience besides reviewing my notes and stuff that wouldn't involve me committing to an additional job. I'm just worried that HR will see that yes I have experience but almost none of it is in inpatient. Maybe I'm overthinking it a little. Thanks again

Thanks for replying! I'm just curious if anyone knows anything I can do to gain more experience besides reviewing my notes and stuff that wouldn't involve me committing to an additional job. I'm just worried that HR will see that yes I have experience but almost none of it is in inpatient. Maybe I'm overthinking it a little. Thanks again

You're still an internal applicant. Keep your eyes open for random opportunities. When I worked in the hospital, it seems like at any given time 5 nurses were pregnant and their maternity leaves always ended up overlapping. More than once when that happened, the floor put out a bulletin to internal nurses to see if anyone wanted to work on our floor to cover these maternity leaves if their department would allow it. One of my colleagues who'd worked for the hospital's community health clinic came over this way and ended up staying for several years before going back to a normal schedule position.

If you do actually confirm that your company wouldn't consider you a viable candidate without inpatient experience, I would seek that type of experience elsewhere - - and TBH I'm pretty sure that the other company's willingness to give me a chance would affect my opinions about where I do and don't need to work, especially if big hospital is hiring new grads while declining to invest in a current employee. $.02

I also work for a children's hospital that has "outlying facilities" that do outpatient care, etc. In that sense, it sounds similar to your employer. Our main hospital inpatient units rarely hire staff from even our own outpatient facilities unless they also have previous inpatient experience. Inpatient experience is inpatient experience -- and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much if you have outpatient peds experience.

Talk to the hospital's Nurse Recruiter and confirm that your chances of getting hired into an inpatient unit are slim before deciding ... but if what you (and I) suspect is true -- that your chances are slim without some inpatient experience -- then commit yourself to getting that experience somewhere else. Take what you can get and stop seeking a job at the main hospital for a while. Once you have some inpatient experience, then start looking at the peds hospital again with your now-strengthened resume.

Don't tell the Nurse Manager of the adult hospital that you don't intend to stay. But commit to staying there long enough to not feel guilty or slimey about it. That's the price you will probably have to pay for changing specialties (from outpatient to inpatient.)

From my experience I beg to differ. I worked only outpatient but applied to the hospital's ICU as an internal transfer and got the job. A couple of the ICU staff worked with me outpatient as per diem staff and told me to go for it.