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Hey! So before becoming an RN I was an LPN for 5 years working in long term care. Then I got my RN and went to med surg and did that for a year and PRN at nursing home. Now that I’m more comfortable in my skills and at the hospital, I want to go towards women’s health. I left my hospital job to have a baby and stay home with her but now I’m ready to go back to work. The problem is, IM ONLY GETTING CALLED BACK TO MED SURG UNITS and I’m not happy about it.

I have a job interview for a surgical PCU floor and I’m thinking just go and try to get into mother baby in 6 months to a year.

Or should I do PRN hospital and go work OB outpatient and then apply to mother baby unit after??

Is pcu more valuable than outpatient OB to a mother baby unit manager?

"I'm a nurse with 5 years' experience who recently shifted from cardiac ICU to NICU. I have worked in cardiac icu for 4years and then took a year gap. Recently shifted to nicu and its been 5months there since i started working.
I'm struggling with prioritization and timing despite trying hard. I have been said things such as I hust run here and there and do work in rush still ends up geting things out of time. I mastered in cardiac icu after a 1-1.5 year but here in nicu, I am questioned and said same old statements such as being late in getting the chores done and that I am slow.
Today, I got absorbed in managing one drowsy neonate and delayed another baby's feed, and my team leader publicly scolded me. I
She kind of started the whole argument in front of all other collegues.
I'm trying to understand whether this is a normal transition issue, anxiety/problem prioritizing, or whether I genuinely lack time-management skills.
I am struggling a lot and just hoping thatI improve and change myself as soon as possible. How should I improve?"

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