Which Sydney hospital?

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I am in the process of looking at grad positions for 2013 and I read that applicants only receive an interview at their first choice hospital.

I am torn between Sydney Childrens Hospital and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Are there any nurses out there working at either or have an opinion on which would be best to apply for?

This is the one I was looking at http://www.nursing.edu.au/Online_Course/ShowCourseProfile.aspx?CourseID=277&CategoryID=4

All the grad certs require experience etc. Some of the girls I work with have the cardiac ones.

This is the one at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne http://www.rch.org.au/mcpc/prof.cfm?doc_id=13814#Paediatric_Foundation_Program

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I don't want to bring negative thoughts to the discussion but what happens if we aren't offered a job? I think grad applications have closed all over Aus. Will hospitals employ new nurses without a grad year? :/

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Annie07, the new grad year is not a compulsory year. You can be accepted as a first year RN without doing the program, you will just need to find a facility and unit willing to take you on.

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Have you looked into private hospitals? A lot of the private hospitals around Sydney will be more willing to hire someone who hasn't done a new graduate year than the big, tertiary hospitals. Undoubtably, neither CHW or SCH will hire someone who has not done a new grad year and they certainly won't hire someone to the ward as an RN 1 not on the new grad program.

The prospect of not getting any job at all is a scary one. (I've been there!) However, last year, everyone I knew got offered a job. It may not have been their first or second or third preference. It might not even have been on their list of preferences but most people got offered a job.

The advice we were given at uni and the general advice is, take any job that you are offered for new grad - do it for a year and then look elsewhere! You need that foundation year.

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Thank you for the advice Imaginations :) Hopefully it works out the same this year.

Less than 24 hours! *hyperventilating*

Mopples and Newbie12 I just had prac in Paediatrics and it was amazing!!! Good luck with the SCH! Wishing it was my first preference now and not 6th lol.

Bye

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Hopefully by 9am we will have our emails! I have been asking the grad at work today when they got their emails and they said around 9.

I just want the waiting to be over!

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Thank you Annie07, all the best for tomorrow :)And yes Mopples I really hope so. I was told by a nurse educator who was the new grad coordinator of an area health service last year and he said it all depends on what time that specific AHS decides to send them out.

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Today is the day. Hardly slept last night. Hopefully only another 2 hours and we have our emails! Good luck girls :)

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Good luck Mopples! I've started to beat myself up all over my interview again... I'm so scared for this email, but I just want to know.

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My email just came. I'm on an eligibility list :( so much uncertainty.

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I'm so sorry to hear that Mopples. I know its hard to take it in, but don't give up, there is still second round offers.

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Apparently it is only a rejection from Sch, not all my preferences. POW etc don't send out offers till the afternoon. We have a Facilitor working as pool on the ward and she informed me of the UBS and outs.

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