New to Nevada Nursing

Hello all! I am a recent BSN graduate from Colorado State. I moved here with my spouse and we now live in Las Vegas. I am looking for a new grad training program. It is interesting to me that in a city of this size how hard it is to find an employer willing to train a new grad. There is opportunities for new grads all over, but I can't find them here. I dont want to relocate because we have a lot of family we like to be close to here. I have a good base of nursing knowledge, but we all know there is only so much you can learn in nursing school. I have applied to 4 hospitals and a home health agency and so far only the home health agency and Sunrise have been willing to talk to me. One hospital said they do not hire new grads. Its almost as if everyone wants you wrapped up in a little box fully trained having every credential under the sun, but you got to start somewhere.
I have found that with the people who have responded to me they say they do not post their new grad positions? They mention to me that to get one you have to dig as I have been doing? Kind of makes me leery? As a new grad coming here is there anything I should be leery or concerned about? I dont want to sign a contract with someone and then find a horrible working environment, politics gone mad, high staff turnovers? I also am leery about what to ask about these things and not ask in my interview.
I thought that coming here there would be a lot of nursing opportunities for new grads, but there isn't or I am just not looking in the right places. I dont want to have my being naive and new to the profession murder me with the first job I take. My last job as an LPN was a nightmare, high staff turnover, the politics were horrible, and I was in training and the saying "nurses eat their young" happened a lot! There is a lot of nursing jobs here, but they all want experience. Experience I want to gain!
Also I am prepping for state boards? any advice would be great. I am taking Kaplan just trying to do the best I can.

Mr. Vegas RN

My daughter and i were watching some program on Discovery Heath that had been filmed at UMC's genuinely excellent ER. She is a medical student who has done Ob and Surg rotations at UMC. She says that the wards are terribly understaffed and before admitting a patient to the wards they have to pass the "Holiday Inn" test. That is, if this patient could survive a weekend at the Holiday Inn all by him/herself, then it was safe to put him/her on a ward at UMC.

She says that it is not the nurses, but the lack of them that is the problem. It must be heart-breaking to be a nurse in that situation.