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Having Trouble Deciding
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Posted over 5 years ago I have recently been accepted in to the RN program at my school It is an ADN program. I have decided on three specialties: Dialysis, Oncology, or Critical Care. I feel that they are three good choices, but don't know which one to go into. I would love to have everyone's insight. Thank you. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Well.......my opinion is you don't decide until after you're through school. Any choice is excellent as long as it suits you, but how will you know this until you've had the experience of nursing school? When I started as a student, I had absolutely no idea where I wanted to practice, except pediatrics or labor and delivery. I was at that time, not emotionally able to choose those specialities. When I did my OR rotation I was hooked, completely. Several other students thought they'd go for different specialites and not one of them ended up in the specialty they had originally chosen. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago vwoods, dmazmene is right. You don't need to decide right now. You will get a rotation into alot of different fields during school. The most of it is med/surg, but we spent a day with hospice, we spent a few hours at a dialysis center and got to work in critical care. We also did OB, Pediatrics, ER, Geriatrics , Endoscopy, PACU, OR and others. You can decide then if it's something you feel like you'd want to do. |
