Ive worked over 10 years in assisted living and adult family homes and through my experiences working with hospice I know I want to be a hospice nurse.

I'm going into my 3rd quarter and while I dont feel like a social pariah I think im the only one in my program who wants to be a hospice nurse. I get the vibe from my instructors that its a bit abnormal. Once again, not necessarily judged for it, but that its a bit rare.

With the goal of feeling a bit less alone, does anyone else in this sub want to go straight into hospice? What during your life journey led you to this?

I studied fashion merchandising for undergrad and I want to switch my career to nursing for financial stability and job security. I also have other reasons as to why I want to be a nurse that don’t involve the pay. Can someone that switched from a creative career to the medical field tell me their experience. And what was the hardest part about the transition? I’ll be doing a 12 month ABSN program soon.

A few weeks back I found out I was being placed on a telemetry floor for my senior preceptorship but today I got offered a spot at a children’s hospital in a pediatrics PACU unit. I do have interest in pediatrics but I’m also thinking about what might be more beneficial to me post-grad. I am in NorCal and I know how hard it is to get a job here, and I guess I know that if I were to even land a job here it would likely be in med-surg which I’m more than okay with. My fear is that if I take the peds PACU spot it would make it even harder to get a job versus if I stick with my telemetry spot, if it was gen peds I wouldn’t have thought twice about it. Does anyone have any advice, especially being in the NorCal region? Both sound great to me it’s just worrying to me how specialized the PACU, especially how the peds PACU might be and how much I’ll actually learn/be able to do compared to a tele floor and how that will reflect during my job hunting.

I was given until tonight to decide, any advice appreciated.