Switch from peds to ob-gyn??

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Specializes in Pediatric (General, Intermediate Cares).

Hello...I'm a newer nurse, a little over a year experience. I work on a pediatric med-surg floor and over the last few months I've realized that I just don't feel like I'm adjusting to the setting. I also want to work closer to home and I think I might enjoy working in an ob-gyn's office/clinic. I feel a bit bad about wanting to quit the hospital setting, but the stress of the patients/families and working nights is getting to me already. I think I will do better in a non-acute setting with more of a speciality, like ob-gyn. Do any of the ob-gyn RNs out there have any advice for someone like me transitioning out of a hospital to a doctor's office or from peds to ob-gyn? Has anyone left a hospital after such a short time and changed to a physician's office? I feel like in nursing school they drilled it into our heads that nursing is more valuable if you work in a hospital and it feels like "quitting" when moving to a doctor's office after such a short time out of school. Any suggestions or advice would be helpful. :mad:

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