When I started, 25 years ago, everything was in the hospital. Now, the desire to specialize can make you miss some really great opportunities. tart on a Med Surg unit if you have that available to you. All Oncology patients have a diverse list of co morbidities. It really important to learn about Diabetes and Heart Disease. If you do not have a Med Surg unit, a Medical Oncology Unit will do. I would suggest about one year there before you decide to specialize. Then you need a mentor to talk to to see where you might want to go and how. I was lucky enough to get invited to work at an inpatient Hospice Respite unit, the first of it's kind affiliated with a hospital. I loved it and knew Oncology would be for mr forever. After three years there, I went to a hospital based Chemotherapy team, a doctor's office where I mixed and administered chemo, a doctor's office where I was a practice manager, and a free standing chemotherapy suite where we gave chemo. Now I am doing Bone Marrow Transplant and Stem Cell collections. The point of this long winded story is that even in specializing, it is never stagnant!

Good luck!
Eileen