Which job would you take

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  1. Mother baby or Peds BMT

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      Mother baby
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      Peds

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I am going to be transferring within my hospital system. I have worked ICU and PCU. I am confident in my skills and time management but don't enjoy older people. We have no techs and shower 2 patients a night sometimes 3 showers if they are preop. The patients have chest tubes etc. I don't find myself enjoying my work or feeling rewarded. I've always enjoyed children and mothers/babies. I want a job with less "total care" and a place I actually enjoy working.

I have an offer for a pediatric BMT unit with 2 patients. And mother baby with 4 couplets. Both seem like they'd be awesome and I just need advice

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Specializes in ED.

No idea what I would choose. I used to like working with Peds in the ER but the parents drive me insane. I guess neither for me. Give me my little old veterans lol.

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Ask to shadow for a day on each unit. Look for those intangibles. Do the nurses seem to get along? Does staff get a lunch break? What are the interactions with the doctors, aides and other staff like. Are the units well-supplied and properly maintained ?

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Specializes in Medical cardiology.

I love the MB unit and really do not enjoy working with children and their parents, so it would be an easy choice for me. But I think PP's suggestion of shadowing is an awesome idea.

Good luck!

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Specializes in Adult and Pediatric Vascular Access, Paramedic.

Do the shadowing like RNperdiem said...

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I know what I would choose but it's entirely dependent on your preference. I don't like peds, and if I didn't do NICU I would do mother baby or ER/adult ICU. I love working with neonates but I'd have a hard time with older kids that understood what was happening to them. Also, I find it awkward and difficult to try and coerce small children into giving me their arm for a BP, etc. But if you love interacting with children, then that's probably the job for you. While you'd work with babies in postpartum, remember that your well patient is the neonate and the "sick" patient is the mother, so you may find the job a little bit more adult focused than peds (if the peds aspect is what you are looking for).

I will say, I love only having two patients, so that would be a draw of the peds job for me.

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