SNF Post-Acute rehab to OB

[strawberryfields]

I have worked in SNF Post acute rehab for 1.6 years and ever since I graduated nursing school OB is what I wanted to focus on. I do love my job but I'm afraid it will limit me to getting in a specialty I always wanted to do.

Would any hospital hire an experienced RN with no experience in that specialty or do they see you as a "new grad"?

[DesertRN2009]

I want to switch to mom baby care. I worked SNF as a new grad (only job open) for four years with some time as a prison nurse. It was incredibly had to get a hospital job. I am now 7 months into med surg. After a year I want to transfer to ob or post partum

[strawberryfields]

How do you like med surg compared to post acute rehab?

[iPink, BSN, RN]

What you can do is apply and find out. If you are having difficultly getting into OB, then try applying to other units and get the experience on the floor then transfer.

I'm currently on a critical care floor and counting down till next year when I can finally start applying to Mother/Baby for a transfer. Many of these hospitals hire within so they will take a nurse with only 1 year of floor experience within their hospital system over a nurse with 2+ years experience from a SNF. This is a strategy many of my coworkers are taking. My floor hired a few new nurses who are coming from a SNF/LTC. Their intentions are to get the experience to be eligible for transfer to their specialty of choice.

[debsgreys]

We hire nurses with no previous OB experience. They have a an orientation to WBN, M/B. If they are hired for L&D they orient there for quite a while. Sometimes when nurses bring there experience it may be different, say from a teaching hospital to a non. I am near retirement and pray my replacement would be a nurse that really wants to be there experience or not.

Best of Luck to all looking for OB