RN - trying to transfer to Postpartum

[LALAFitz04]

I have almost 3 years of adult intermediate care nursing experience. I would love to get into NICU or postpartum nursing, but in a part time position. I've spoken with a NICU manager and she said without experience I couldn't go part time after orientation in the NICU. Does anyone know if the same would apply for a mother baby unit? My husband is transitioning into a more demanding job and full time night shift is killing me as is. Thanks for the help!

[klone, MSN, RN]

It depends completely upon the hospital, the unit and the manager. There's no way we could answer that.

[Semper_Gumby]

I had a friend who worked peds and started part-time or PRN in postpartum. She later left the peds position to go full-time in postpartum and eventually moved to L&D. It is possible to do part-time in postpartum or mother baby, but like klone said, it entirely depends on the individual unit and manager.

NICU I think is highly unlikely to hire you part-time without NICU experience as it's a very long orientation (3-4 months usually) and full-time is best to help solidify what you've learned because babies (especially sick ones) are a whole different animal.

Good luck!