where do you prefer to work, in the community or in the hospital?

Hello dagma, in your case since you are just graduated in your profession (nurse), I guess you better start to practice it in the community. This would be your stepping stone before reaching to a higher steps of your career. This is the place where you could gain more experiences, whether it might be good or not, that it might be useful and needed to gain higher entry of your profession..I hope I am understood...keep on writing while you're waiting a big leap of your career..Nice day..

Nothing takes the place of the experience you get in a hospital. In home care you are out there alone, there are not five other nurses working with you side by side to bounce questions to, no techs to pass anything to, no experienced lab person getting blood from the little old lady who "has no veins". While the pace may be slower in home care, you are it. Patient codes, you are it til 911 responds. Also not having the hospital experience you may think something is an emergency and it really is not. I remember when I passed the boards, after so long pushing forward and never stopping suddenly you do stop. And think...after working so long and hard... you still know so little. I have a question for you, why would you volunteer, you've paid your dues. You should be able to get a job right away. Hospitals hire graduate nurses all the time, it doesn't pay super but it is great experience until you pass the boards.

Since everybody is an individual, your career will depend on your own skills and interests. The best place to learn about nursing is in a hospital. Whether you volunteer or are hired, a hospital is a world of experience and technique that can form the basis of your practice. It's in a hospital where you see the symptoms and the cures take on a pattern that can be applied to whatever situation you choose. It's worth the investment of a few years and the resulting skills are worth it all. . As you treat people there you can tell who has had the help/experience of a community health system. Your eyes will be opened to the needs of the patients there and your own inner desires. Hospital nursing can be its own reward or it can propel you into varied disciplines. I have friends that have left hospital nursing to find their own special niche. One friend is a nurse who couldn't stand blood or open wounds or people vomiting so she and her husband now design medical buildings: Dr.'s offices, nursing homes, clinics and urgency center. Another friend has gone into forensic nursing and helps solves murders with the police department. I know nurses that work in physical training or factory nursing. Then there are nurses that become specialists in wound care or anesthesiology. There is home health, school nursing, jail nursing or Dr.s office nurses. And now we have ARNPs. that man small clinics in the community, or take the overload of busy Dr.s (and do a better job of it!) No matter what your interest is there is a place for a nurse. As for what you should do, well that's a decision only you can make. My choice is Medicare Home Health. It involves a little bit of everything and gives me time and freedom to manage other aspects of my life. I would encourage anyone to become a home health nurse but I realize it's not always for everyone. So give yourself time to decide how to pursue your interests, the world needs nurses and it's a wide open field. Good luck to whatever you want to do!

i wrote alot then i accidently deleted gosh!!!!!!!!! well anyway i basically said in short terms work in ur community because u have to rest of ur life to work in the hospital if u want to be a nurse

It is true that its up to you what decisions to make on this one, you can hear out our advices but on the end it will be your decision to make. And thats just an introduction. Well first ask yourself why did you study nursing? do you like to serve people on a certain type of area? pediatric? emergency maybe? In short ask yourself what you are passionate about with regards to this profession. Start from there. Whether you start in the community or hospital it doesn't really matter, what matter is that you LOVE what you are doing and your PASSIONATE about it.

I am a community health nurse myself and Ive tried working on the hospital. For me its boring you will do the same thing over and over. In my experience, i will choose the community because helping or serving people in the rural would be a great and fulfilling experience, but due to low salary here in our country it would be nice if the government will raise the salary of nurses so we will not go and work outside the country and leave our loved ones.