This job or that job? Cardiologist or Hospice?

[Kbroom, ADN]

Help me! I am nurse with 4 years of ER experience that left for public health case management after having a baby. I’ve been at this job for 1.5 years but the program I’m in is suffering due to COVID and I want/need to get out. I applied for a Clinical Nurse Liaison job with a local hospice company. I interviewed and a week later they offered me a different case management position. While I was waiting to hear from them, I interviewed at a cardiologist specialty office at the old hospital I used to work at. Pay isn’t great, it’s about $3,000 more per year than I am making now. Basically what I was making as a new grad without all the perks of critical care and weekend differentials. I refused the case management offer and accepted the cardiologist office offer. The hospice company has reached back out to me now offering the liaison position I originally applied for. Pay is significantly more, like 10-20 k more per year. I don’t know what to do. I feel like I’m gravitating toward cardiology because it’s comfortable and familiar. I know the hospital, I know the cardiologists, I know the charting system. But I don’t want to automatically refuse the hospice position just because I’m not comfortable with that role. I just don’t know enough about hospice. I turned down the liaison position initially because I already accepted the offer at the cardiologist office, but now she wants to talk salary with me to see if I will change my mind. I’ll be talking with her this afternoon, but I need to make a decision because I already turned in my notice and my start date for the cardiology office is October 4th. Any clinical nurse liaisons for hospice here that can walk me through the job? Pros and cons? 

[OUxPhys, BSN, RN]

It sounds like they are desperate if they want to keep talking salary. That's a red flag IMO. Im a little biased because my background is in cardiology and I think you made the right choice. Id rather take a job Im more familiar with for less money than a job I have no interest in or little familiarity with for more money.