Which route?

[MomtaRN2B2020]

Hello fellow nurses! I need lots of opinions. I have been a lpn on a medsurg floor for 9.5 years. I recently graduated and obtained my RN and am currently working in an ambulatory clinic. I want to leave the clinic because I don’t feel any job satisfaction since we use zero nursing skills. We triage like at a MD office and send them home. I have been offered a medsurg position and an ER position. I applied for medsurg because thats all I know as a LPN but not RN and I find its my comfort zone. I want to try ER but am terrified of the unknown! However, I want to challenge myself to do critical care nursing. In the future I would either like to teach nursing or become a NP. Any advice on which way to go? I have to give them a response by Friday?

[MomtaRN2B2020, ASN, CNA, LPN, RN]

Thanks for your input! From your perspective it sounds like something I would enjoy. Granted there are good and bad days in the ED.

[londonflo]

On 12/6/2020 at 7:24 AM, MomtaRN2B2020 said:

I want to leave the clinic because I don’t feel any job satisfaction since we use zero nursing skills.

 

On 12/6/2020 at 8:40 AM, MomtaRN2B2020 said:

I would like to do FNP if I’m not teaching somewhere later in life. I think I must mention I get bored easily and was the reason I left medsurg 2 years ago and went to the family clinic.

 

On 12/6/2020 at 9:24 AM, MomtaRN2B2020 said:

but I feel like I’m not learning anything as a new RN. I want the experience but I am not comfortable with change.

 

On 12/6/2020 at 9:06 AM, JKL33 said:

You don't have acute care RN experience but you have a significant amount of acute care LPN experience. Those 9.5 years have been spent learning things that are way underrated in the world of nursing: The flow of things, how to communicate with patients, problem-solving, prioritizing, etc., etc. These things are imperative and are indeed additional hurdles for the typical new grad. Some of them take quite a bit of time to develop, too.

before you jump in to a teaching role, you need to find out what you really like, what challenges you or at least keeps your interest. When you teach you repeat your instructions individually with EVERY student, despite them all being in the same room when you said it the first time!  When Teaching at a for-profit college, try failing someone when the administration is counting on those tuition dollars for their bonus. Even when teaching in a not for profit school,  the knives come out when you state a student has earned their D grade in paper and pencil tests  that everyone else  passed. The Dean calls a meeting and says "you failed them". Righty -oh. Can't we pass them on to  the next sequential course? Deal with that failure later?