I am so discouraged. I grad in June, NCLEX in Aug. I am having trouble finding a job. I really want to work in an assisted living(brand new)...went for one interview and was called back for a second interview 3 weeks later...and was told they would be making a decision in 2 weeks. I feel like my life is on hold!
I also went for an interview at a nsg home and told the administrator that I couldn't work weekends and he basically told me that only desperate facilities would hire someone who couldn't work weekends and they were not a desperate facility!
Before becoming an LPN I was a mammographer and I decided that I really needed to do more than sit home, so I went back per diem...I feel like I went to LPN school for nothing. I am making more money as a mammo tech and can basically pick and choose my hours!
I'm so sorry! I agree with The Commuter. I'm a new LVN grad with no experience. I walked in and fill out an application form and was hired on the spot. Pay is not bad either for a start, $17/hr. I understand how you feel but you need to stay motivated.
I just got a job. I graduated in Aug 06 as an LPN. On my first interview, I went to a LTC facility. Prior to going I had a phone conversation with the DON which sounded promising. She told me to come in fill out an application and afterwards she would interview me. When I got there the ADON came over & asked me a few questions after giving me a once over & appearantly being unimpressed (I gathered by the look on her face)--It wasn't going well--she was skimming through my resume & application and stating things that wasn't there because she was skimming & not reading it, then getting irritated when I was correcting her by telling her what my credentials were--new grad, ect.... So then the DON comes over to meet me--a very pleasant lady---& guess what. The ADON interrupted her & said " I was explaining to her that we weren't doing actual interviews today, we are just gathering preliminary information today & we'll give her a call for an interview". (Which she wasn't explaining to me, by the way) I was soooo pissed. She blocked my interview because she didn't like me or had some type of other agenda. I was thinking- Well I guess you forgot to tell my two friends who got hired "on the spot" by the DON that you weren't doing interviews..
---I am almost positive if the DON had come out first, the outcome would have been different.
Discouraged & obviously upset, picked (dragged) myself up & called every LTC facility within 25 miles of me. I sent out resumes and I visited a few every day & the calls started coming in. One nursing home hired me on the spot. So I am saying "Dont let the nay sayers get to you. Your job is out there. If they said no, that just means you haven't found it yet. DON'T GIVE UP!!!!!!
Oh, I forgot to mention -- The first nursing home offered $17.50 ( I accepted) but.... I got a better offer $18.75 plus 6 weeks of preceptorship (in LTC)....I couldn't pass it up. That much training for a new grad is worth gold.
dot getting thru school was no picnic so don't let some problems now get you down...if the place you work now is associated with a hospital see if they can help you..it is hard getting a job in nursing if you can't work w/e or certain shifts but it is not impossible...check with clinics and md offices
vnightingale06
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I'm so sorry! I agree with The Commuter. I'm a new LVN grad with no experience. I walked in and fill out an application form and was hired on the spot. Pay is not bad either for a start, $17/hr. I understand how you feel but you need to stay motivated.