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dena

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Sun May 20, 2012 11:05 am Last edited May 20, 2012, 11:11 am Update #1

Hello everyone, i need to put my prederences in 4 weeks for my grad year program. I really love community nursing and want to put RDNS as my first preference, then hospital for my second preference. I talked to other nurses about which is better and i got mixed advices, few of them said i need to do grad year in a hospital to consolidate my acute skills first, but the others told me RNDS is pretty good, you still get alot of acute skills plus you get a lot of education and training.  I also love mental health and one day i might work in the mental health sector, maybe in a community as well such a APATT.. I am soooo confused, if anyone can give me advice it will be a great help for me :) thank you!!

modified: Sunday 20 May 2012 12:08:09 pm - dena

jw_86

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Jun 14, 2012, 10:46 am

Hi,

It all depends on what your interests are and what you want to do in the future.

I would say if you want to work in a hospital at some point do a grad program in a hospital, from what i've heard it's much harder to move back into hospitals than it is to move into district nursing.

Also i'm not a hundred per cent sure but have heard that their isn't much acute stuff in RDNS with specialties being more along the lines of wounds, continence, diabetes ect, a lot of the acute stuff is provided by the hospitals in their hospital in the home departments which is acute care in the home.

I would say consolidate your acute skills even if you only do the grad program and then move on that way you have it their as a back up but if your intrests are in community and you don't have any interest in acute go with district nursing.

cheers

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