Conversation Between SteveRN21 and scrabblern

Hi Steve,
I contacted you last year sometime about Columbia's NNP and I am now finally getting my things together. I sent an app for NY license last week and have been checking a few hospitals for jobs almost daily but there's nothing out there except for 1 prn position, and nothing at CHONY NICU. I have 1.5 years exp in adult CICU and 1 year exp in Level III NICU (everything except open heart and ECMO). I want to attend Columbia's NNP program, possibly starting in 2010. Could you please give me your 2 cents? Get a job first, then get into NNP? Or if I apply for NNP and get in will a hospital create a position for me? Get in through a travel agency, hope for a FT job? (I keep thinking that 1 year of experience won't cut it for travel and that I should just apply for full time position).
Any advice would be of great help.

Thank you

Jelena