Outside Hospital to Hospital?

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I am curious about experiences going from Home Health/Dr. Office/LTC/etc. to a hospital setting? Is there any settings that it is harder to move from because of the skills in that setting?

I am curious to hear the answer to this question as well.

Specializes in MedSurg, PACU, Maternal/Child Health.

In my hospital RN orientation program, 8 out of 13 of us had our first RN job in a clinic, LTC, Doctor office, etc and had no hospital experience. The other 5 were people already working in the hospital getting promoted from PCA or LPN to RN. The hospital hired us for inpatient jobs in Med surg, telemetry, OB, ER, etc. Any RN experience is better than none!

@estrellaCR how long did you work outside the hospital before you finally landed a position? Did you have any connections, applied online or in person?

Specializes in MedSurg, PACU, Maternal/Child Health.

i was at the clinic 6 months and i was called for hosp interviews before that. Before nursing (i did RN as second career), I worked in the child development field with kids with disabilities, like a case worker type job. I did not know anyone at any hospital. I applied online to all jobs. I am in NYC and in NYC you can only apply online...the open houses are for experienced RNs only. HR does not allow in person applications...if you walk in to any hospital HR they will ask if you have an appointment with someone and if you are just there to apply they will just say "you are supposed to apply online".

Thanks for the response. How did you get the clinic job? Was that an online posting as well?

Specializes in MedSurg, PACU, Maternal/Child Health.

Yes the clinic job I found on Volunteer, work, intern, organize, hire and connect. Change the world - idealist.org in the jobs section (put "nurse" in the search box) and it was also posted in the healthcare jobs section of craigslist. I continued working at the clinic (pediatric) until the hire process at the city hospital was finalized. Also I only applied to jobs after I took NCLEX...as most dont consider grads with no license yet. While working at the clinic, I also applied to states like Florida and New Jersey and the recruiters called me a week later however they asked me if I have FL or NJ license yet...i said no only NY. The recruiters then said to call them back once I get their state's license.

I see you are in FL. Have you tried Bay Health (if i remember correctly that's the name of the hospital that called me) they are in the Tampa area. They called me to interview for their Children's Hospital Nurse Residency and I only had 6 months experience in Pediatric Clinic!

Also make sure your resume is one page...good grammar and spelling and standard font. Avoid borders and decorations as these can make your resume unreadable by online application systems and/or the document opens up as "Chinese type" writing when the HR or Manager opens the document from the online application.

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