[pinksunRN]

Originally Posted by suzanne4

Just ntoiced from one of your other posts that you graduated back in 1992 and never had any experience as an RN in your home country either.

Sorry, but chances of getting hired for a new grad program without taking at least a refresher course is going to be impossible in the hospital setting.
We are seeing it get harder and harder for someone that has been away from the field for even three years to get hired, but 16 years?

There is no way that you can expect to be hired in a hospital, and you are only setting yourself up for failure to try a nursing home without any experience at all and from that long ago.

You are going to need much more than a new grad orientation before getting hired. Would check into that.

Hi Suzanne, I'm not sure where I can get these refresher courses. Where can I possibly look? Is it through schools???

[suzanne4]

It is going to be impossible for you to get hired by a hospital if you graduated that long ago and never worked in the field. I am not going to lie to you and tell you that it will be easy to get a job, it is not going to be, especially as a new grad first of all. But being out of school for 16 years and never any experience in nursing is just going to make it impossible.

There are refresher programs that are available thru some of the community colleges, would check with them to see if you qualify for some of those.

It is not a point of applying, but actually getting hired and that is where you are going to find issues. Things are also done so very differently here than what you saw when you were in school, significantly different procedures, etc. Plus all of the new digital equipment as well as all of the new meds, etc.

[pinksunRN]

I saw a 9-day Nurse Refresher Course with the California School of Health Sciences, will that be ok? Is that enough? I agree with you in terms of learning the procedures here and to gain more confidence before really handling patients...That's the reason why I was looking into the new graduate RN programs because they give training in different areas of nursing. My husband by the way, who went into nursing here in the US without enough clinical experience in the Philippines. He said its difficult for him to adjust because he wasn't given enough training with the first facility he was in, assuming that since he is a "travel nurse" he should be experienced. Good thing, when he got transferred to a different facility, he asked for training and a lot of Filipino nurses in that hospital were very willing to assist him, then he was able to gain more confidence...By the way, he is in a Psychiatric Facility, CSU in particular...will it make a difference if I go Psychiatric Nursing rather than Med-Surg?

[portobello]

hi pinksunRN! good luck! i was so surprise that people here are really good! it's like 11 hospitals that they listed above!wow! i wonder if there's any hospital here in san diego that offers newly grad program too.

[pinksunRN]

ThanksI'm sure they offer such program there in San Diego! You can search for it online