A "name" in nursing

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I have a question.

When I became a nurse in Dallas Texas in 2009 I could not get hired at a nursing home. I did a few walk in and Apply's with no luck and also applied online with no luck. I finally got hired at a staffing agency and then a second agency a year later. I could still not get a call back from any online job postings. So I created a profile at that time on the Texas workforce commission. About 2-3 months later I got a call from a nursing home who hired me. I asked the don why I could not get hired at any nursing homes and she said it was "because I did not have a name in nursing."

Is is that true for not having a "name" for not getting hired?

The only nurse ive ever known of was nurse rached and flow ntgale.

how do you be someone in nursing before you are a nurse other then maybe a celebrity became one. Or maybe the ones who wrote the nursing books. Or big university teacher like Harvard nurse I guess.

Has anyone else ever had this told to them?

thanks

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You didn't need a "name" but rather experience.

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

I went to nursing school in the NTX in 2009. That was right after Enron and people's retirements going belly up, and nurses who were retirement age weren't able to retire. So nobody was hiring new nurses. Come to think on it, though - we've not ever had a proper nursing shortage in NTX. What we have is a shortage of seasoned nurses willing to work bedside.

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Specializes in ICU.

I think you took her saying "a name" literally when it reality she meant it as a metaphor for experience.

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