How do I Relocate NOW????

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

Hey y'all!

This new grad has a huge impetus to vacate immediately!

Bills, bills, bills! I am sure you can all relate to that. ;>)

But I have never relocated in all my years out of state with such an imperative on time and interview(s)

Here's my dilemma:

I want to relocate out of state (I'm in GA, but want New England or westward)

I'm a new grad. Licensed just this August w/ RN-BSN, and only about 8-ish weeks of orientation on a high acuity, Onc/Renal unit that was very chaotic, and stressful; just quit yesterday morn, albeit on Good terms.

I was hoping to get my niche in Women's Healthcare, but took Onc for the experience; BIG mistake!! Hated it. Was mostly renal and wound care and I had almost no involvement w/ Onc care of these pts.

I don't know how to get ahold of recruiters and interview out of state.

I just lost medical insurance when I quit and many specialists to see in next 2 weeks

How do I start the out of state process??????? I need to locate hospitals and recruiters and find out if they are hiring first off. How do I begin this? Why am I so naive after all my years? STRESS! I'm sure that's it. Confidence? Probably that too. Nothing like being told for so many weeks that I was incompetent, slow, etc...Hope this hasn' t broken me.

Scared and alone,

Chloe,

RN-BSN, BA

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

This all sounds like the advice I need to get started.

Thanks y'all!

Chloe

[Diary/Dairy, RN]

You can be licensed in more than one state - just look at the state's websites - I have not had to retest, but you do have to pay the application fees. Good luck to you in whatever choice you make.

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

You can be licensed in more than one state - just look at the state's websites - I have not had to retest, but you do have to pay the application fees. Good luck to you in whatever choice you make.

Any idea what these application fees run?

Chloe

[Diary/Dairy, RN]

It depends on the state - Washington state was $70 I think - Some states, like California and NC, also require fingerprinting, so that costs extra.

On a side note, I have always heard to keep your license in the original state for as long as you practice. I plan to do it, but may let some of the others lapse.

Hope that was helpful.

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

You should be able to elect COBRA coverage to see the docs in the next few weeks. You can carry it a month, two, up to eighteen months I think.

You can certainly do COBRA. Just be aware that you will be paying the entire amount yourself. It's expensive! It may, of course, be worth it. Each individual situation is different.

It can take a while to get a license in a new state. No one, including the pertinent boards of nursing, can really tell you just how long it will take. If you're not working now, unless you have lots of $$$ saved up, you probably need to be. Even if not in nursing.

Try not to get yourself in the position that you take the first thing offered out of desperation, particularly if you're relocating. You also don't want to be so focused on the $$$, bonuses, etc that you don't take a good hard look at what's offered. "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" works in nursing, too.

All sorts of unplanned things can happen to you in relocating, unexpected expenses can pop up, and so on. Try not to have too tight a schedule in the whole process; leave yourself some maneuvering room. That way if things don't go just as planned you're not in a panic.

"This will work if everything goes just exactly as planned with no variation or deviation" is an invitation for Murphy's law to go into effect.

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

Oooooooooooh boyyy...I sure don't have the luxury of time this go-around.

Gettin very very scared...

Didn't sleep at all last nite. Was stressed over last job and all the hateful things said that forced my hand to quit, and all the fears of money woes, and relocating...I cannot believe I am stilll holding my head up. You all should see how many times I've had to backspace and retype the mutli-errors here...

ohhhhhhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyy

Chloe

[caliotter3]

Go to a nursing agency and get a temporary job from them doing shifts in hospitals or go to a home health agency and start doing shifts for them or take on a case to get some money coming in. Once you do that, you will have bought some breathing room to recover from your recent setback. Don't tell any employer at this point that you might relocate. Don't give them any reason not to hire you.

[Agnus]

chloe, It sounds like you are running scared from something. Here is what you need to do to get your questions answered. Decide on what state you would like to work in and apply for a license. OR apply for and accept a job in another state then apply for your license.

The only way to insure you have accurate and up to date information about licensing in any particular state is to contact the BON in that state.

They all have websites just google. They have addresses and phone numbers listed on the sites if you need to contact them this way. If you can not find it call information and ask for the BON in the state where you are interested.

You might consider contacting a travel nursing agency. In some states they can get you your license fairly quickly (referred to as a walk through state) Once you have accepted an assignment you may have an option of accepting a permanent position.

Most travel companies help with nurses who explicitly want to permanently relocate.

As to your appearance of "running scared," I hope this is not actually the case. Things are rarely as dire as they seem.

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

chloe, It sounds like you are running scared from something. Here is what you need to do to get your questions answered. Decide on what state you would like to work in and apply for a license. OR apply for and accept a job in another state then apply for your license.

As to your appearance of "running scared," I hope this is not actually the case. Things are rarely as dire as they seem.

I guess I'm running scared from this whole career. It's been so difficult for me as an older non-traditional 2nd career gal. And I made it thru school, clinicals, and boards only to get into a specialized unit and be told every day how I'm lacking confidence, but I'm also slow, disorganized, incompetent, forgetful, and all these lovely confidence-building character traits repeated daily....

I finally left that job, but only morning before yesterday and not without having secured a job already, but running hopefully towards something not away from. Just hoping it's actually out there for me. I have a lot of school debt to pay back.

And I can't help wondering if I made a huge mistake getting in in the first place. I'm miserable and only my patients and their families appreciated me. Not the staff who made me so miserable. I just had the hardest time fitting in with these folks. They are bigoted and close-circled, and burned out, and very very anti-outsiders, not to mention anti-Semitic, something I cannot endure as a Jew.

It was just awful where I worked. So Agnus, I appreciate your helpful advice on the BON's, but honestly I cannot deal w/ one more person knocking my character.

Thanks for the tip on the walk thrus. I've already been in touch w/ the BON sites in some states. Didn't know about that little tidbit. If you want to explain it further I'm willing to listen.

Chloe

[Agnus]

I am not sure exactly how walk thought works. I believe (if I remember correctly) that in a case where you are a traveler they are able to issue a license on short notice. I think (again faulty memory) this is a temporary license. Which means you would eventulally have to apply for a permanent license but this could buy you time.

As for school debt. IF these are student loans of any type contact them they all will postphone your need to repay if you find yourself unemployed. Even after you have started to make payments.

If these are not student loans. Call or write your creditors. explain your situation. Tell them when you expect to be able to resume your regular payments.

They would rather you do this than just default. You might try calling a non profit consumer counseling service that can negotiate for you such as Consumer Credit Counseling Service.

Go apply for unemployment immediately. EVEN if you think you do not qualify. You might be surprised. I have qualified a number of times when I thought the rules would not allow it. Even when people quit if they remain out of work for a certain period of time they can eventually collect.

The rules are different in different states. If you move to another state before you actually start working you can usually still collect. Just go to that state's unemployment office and they will arrange it with your former state.

It sounds like you may have been in a "hostile work envionment" Quiting under those situations is not the best yet it does not preclude you collecting.

Write out your experience with your employer and particularly the anti Semiticm.

Be prepared to back up if possible your statements but do not worry too much. It is my experience that when an employer challenges your right to collect they usually hang themselves. (happened 2x for me now)

Please do not worry too much about the bills. It may be difficult to recover but you will. In any case you must take care of your basic needs right now and that means, food shelter and what every you need to get a new job. Everything else really is secondary right now.

There is life after debt trouble. You can recover. Just do not let that dominate you r thought prosess right now. You have more important things to think about.

Use your nursing process to prioritize and plan your action.

I did not mean anything as a knock on your character. My comment of running scared was merely an observation. I had no Idea if it was the case nor what you might be running from. Running is not a character flaw. It is a survival mechanism

God bless.

[Chloe'sinNYNow]

Thanks for the explanation Agnus. And season's greetings to you!!

[Agnus]

Thanks for the explanation Agnus. And season's greetings to you!!

It is understandable you might mis interpret. You are under stress.Take care.