Transition from Outpatient Urgent Care to ER

U.S.A. California

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New nurse here, have 9 months experience in juvenile detention as RN. I’m currently started working in an urgent care clinic full time to gain more experience. My main goal is to get at least a year of experience and try to transition into the ER, some hospitals in my area do have transition programs like Sharp and Scripps here San Diego. Also, I know usually RN transition jobs is done the other way around. But I wanted to give it a try. And figured I would have more success in being selected to a transition program if I gained at least a year of urgent care. While doing clinicals I really didn’t enjoy the inpatient setting, which is why I’d didn’t apply to hospitals and instead went to outpatient setting route. However, I really want try this challenge myself and in areas I don’t feel comfortable. 

1) I really want to give inpatient a try. (to figure if it’s for me or not)   2) ER was biggest fear, because of the chaos and fast pace. (Unfortunately never gained experienced in clinicals)

I guess my question is has anyone ever successfully transitioned from outpatient to inpatient? Any tips? 

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