"Meat To Go Along With your Resume"

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Specializes in pediatrics.

I've read so many blogs about new nurses not finding jobs. I don't know why schools don't require nursing students to get a job in the health care field while in school at least PRN work.

Out of my class that graduated (april 2010) 2 of us have jobs and that's because we were already working in the health care field. Everyone else in our class is stil looking for jobs. I know about 2 schools that tells there students to get PCT tech positions or care partner positions, just to have meat to go with students resume or so they can be offered a position before the next person.... So my question is Why don't nursing schools that require you to take a HESI exit exam,require you to do an interview with your so called recruiter for the school, and tell you nursing is high in demand, put this as a requirement especially when they know you have no nursing or health care background you are practically starting from scratch????????:cool:

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They figure they do enough by providing you with the means to sit for the NCLEX. Nice if they offer placement services, but if not contracted for when you begin school, not part of the bargain. We were required to take a course in professional writing, geared to our major, nursing. One of our assignments was to create our own resume. Many had never written a resume before, so this course was useful in this respect.

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Not sure schools requiring students to work PRN would make much of a difference right now. There are a lot of new grads who were techs all through school but still couldn't get RN positions, even in the hospitals they worked in.

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Not sure schools requiring students to work PRN would make much of a difference right now. There are a lot of new grads who were techs all through school but still couldn't get RN positions, even in the hospitals they worked in.

This is happening a lot in my area too.

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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology.
Not sure schools requiring students to work PRN would make much of a difference right now. There are a lot of new grads who were techs all through school but still couldn't get RN positions, even in the hospitals they worked in.

That would be correct. I have worked for 9 months at a large hospital and there are no jobs and won't be for a while. Working PRN while in school didn't help one bit. And since I have graduated they are not letting me work after September so not only do I not only have a RN job I don't even have a tech job.

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Where are all of the prn tech jobs going to come from?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

By the time I graduated nursing school, the hospital where I volunteered had pretty much stopped hiring their new-grad PCAs. The day you passed the NCLEX was the day you lost your PCA job.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.
Not sure schools requiring students to work PRN would make much of a difference right now. There are a lot of new grads who were techs all through school but still couldn't get RN positions, even in the hospitals they worked in.

So true. I have worked at the same hospital as a CNA2 for 2.5 years, did my preceptorship in my own department, had me preceptor, charge staff and peer nurses all say wonderful things about me, yet there is no job, they will keep me in mind but they are not hirring new grads right now, however they opened 3 critical care float pool positions to fill in the gaps in the department, they are even using agency nurses at almost twice the rate as a new grad rate, but they will not hire a new grad:crying2:

I have another friend who was a student nurse intern, which was supposed to lead to a job upon graduation and they basically gave her a 2 week notice once she passed the NCLEX as she was no longer a student and could not work for them in that capacilty nor as a CNA:uhoh3:

Another friend worked for the same hospital for 17 years, starting out as a vollunteer then a CNA, she was told thanks but no thanks.

Another friend works as a scrub tech, her hospital paid her tution for nursing school, once she graduated and passed her NCLEX they were no longer interested in hirring her, even though they had invested in her:eek:

Out of a class of 77, I think that 7 of us have jobs, one is active military, one was a LPN for 5 years, one did his preceptorship on the floor that opened up an internship. Another worked for the company for 10 years was told no twice untill one of the ER doctors spoke to the manager, another his wife works as a RN and they hired him upon her reccomnedation, and the other 2 have been hired into a LTC in which they worked at as CNAs and knew the hirring managers.

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I would have loved to work PRN in the healthcare field when I school, unfortunately nobody was hiring....

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I graduated from LPN school in 2008 and my instructors did inform us that new grads might have difficulty getting jobs. So what did they do to help us? Before we graduated, our instructors arranged for us to go to an all-day long gathering at an academic conference where a bunch of employers had rented booths/exhibits to network with RN/ LPN students. A bunch of nursing students from other schools were also there to hear lectures and meet with potential employers who were handing out pamplets, t-shirts, cups, pens--everything they could to remind us of their existence for when we were ready to find jobs. It was very helpful! Some of my classmates won jobs very quickly by networking there!

Now that I am 8 months away from graduating with my BSN, only one of my instructors have actually spoken openly about the challenges facing new grad RN's. It's as though NOBODY wants to talk about the big elephant in the room--the one that's causing lots of debt for me! But as nursing grads, we will have to do the best that we can to obtain employment! It's not likely that a job will land in our laps but we work hard to become nurses and now we will have to work four times as hard to obtain employment--with or without meat to go along with the resume.

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I got a job right out of college (thankfully) in an area that is VERY saturated with new grads / nursing schools.

That said, I was a bartender / server, and made TONS more $ thankfully than I would have being an aid through school, they worked really well around my schedule, and when they weren't busy I would get to go home a bit early sometimes.

It was a shocker being in the real world, though, let me tell 'ya.

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I've read so many blogs about new nurses not finding jobs. I don't know why schools don't require nursing students to get a job in the health care field while in school at least PRN work.

Out of my class that graduated (april 2010) 2 of us have jobs and that's because we were already working in the health care field. Everyone else in our class is stil looking for jobs. I know about 2 schools that tells there students to get PCT tech positions or care partner positions, just to have meat to go with students resume or so they can be offered a position before the next person.... So my question is Why don't nursing schools that require you to take a HESI exit exam,require you to do an interview with your so called recruiter for the school, and tell you nursing is high in demand, put this as a requirement especially when they know you have no nursing or health care background you are practically starting from scratch????????:cool:

One word.....

MONEY

Schools are a business. How many people do you actually think would go to the school if they were required to work? Not very many.

Many people do work and they have good jobs outside of healthcare that still do tuition reimbursement and they get health insurance. These people wouldn't leave their jobs to get a part time job making $12 hr.

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