Switching Fields & Terrified

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Good Morning! Apologize for the length 

This has been on my brain for a couple of months now and I'm scared of the responses I'm going to get. So back story, I graduated in the Summer months of 2020 from my ADN program. Passed NCLEX and landed a sweet job as an Infusion Nurse at an office. I was hoping my first job would be in a hospital because my heart is in the ER. Like I feel the NEED to work ER. I feel like since I'm a new nurse and I didn't work on the floor when I first graduated nursing school I won't know anything, I'll forget everything I learned in nursing school, and no one will want to hire me in the hospital in the future. I love my job to be honest. It's a comfortable environment, my management couldn't be better, I make the amount I wanted to make, and I'm actually good at my job. I mainly chose this job because I knew I could do it and be comfortable since I was a medic before this, and so I could have the time to go back to school for my BSN. I figure I'll finish the BSN program I'm in by the end of 2021. My original plan was to work 1-2 years here in this office and then jump ship to the hospitals. I've been looking at PRN positions in hospitals, but what I've concluded after reading the advice from AN is that why would a hospital train me to work if it's only PRN and especially since I'm a new new nurse with no experience in hospitals. 

If I didn't feel a NEED to be working in a hospital/ER I would just stay at this job I'm at for my entire life tbh but I just can't do that and feel complete. I'm going to wait 1-2 years before I make any career changes for certain. My question is, is it going to be difficult for me to find a job in a hospital in a year or 2 from now? I never hear of nurses getting hired and being trained as a "new nurse" even though they've been a nurse for a couple years, just not in a hospital. Please Please share your experience if this was you. If you started off in a clinical setting and then switched to floor nursing, please tell me how the transition was for you and if you would do it again. 

Specializes in ICU.

Can’t say I started OP but I will say that a couple of the hospitals around me have “transition to acute care” programs. Basically like a new grad program, but taking into account the nurse already has some experience, typically OP or LTC or something. I think it depends on your area really. 

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