Hello, Everyone!
I am not from the Southern California area, but I am looking into moving that way. So far I have found hospitals in the area follow one of two philosophies: 1. We hire new graduates through our new grad residency program -or- 2. We hire experienced nurses who have been through a new grad residency program.
My question is this: Are there any hospitals in the Southern California area(LA or SD), which are new graduate friendly and will hire new graduate nurses without going through a residency program?! While I would love to be in a residency program, it just isn't possible for every one of the 10,000+ new grads applying for the same position to be so fortunate and be accepted. Also, I have found most of these residency programs require you to have at least 2 recommendations, and that gets to be troublesome when you are asking instructors and/or managers for recommendations for dozens of residency programs! Haha. So if anyone knows of a hospital hiring new graduates for Registered Nurse I positions, I would greatly appreciate you listing it here!! Thank you! :redbeathe