Advice for nursing school

[nmrRN2015]

Hello,

I will be starting nursing school in jan and I was wondering about two main things. The first is specialty, how do you specialize is it that you try to find an opening in a certain field or that I would have to go to another program? My second thing is experience, I have look at hospitals just to see what they look for on their job openings for nurse and almost all of them say experience, as I will be a new nurse how would I get that experience.

Thanks In Advance!

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

1. Some specialties require certification in certain things, such as ACSL, PALS, chemo, critical care, etc etc etc. Those are done as additional education outside of school, some of which you can't do until you have graduated and passed NCLEX. As a new graduate you may not have much choice regarding specialty. If the economy is the same when you graduate as it is now you will have to take whatever job you are fortunate enough to get offered and start buiding from there.

2. Re: experience. You won't get experience as an RN until you are an RN and someone is willing to hire you. At this point in time around 40something percent of all new grades cannot find work up to a year after graduation. You will want to do all you can while in school to make connections with people so that you have a better chance of being hired after graduation.

Best of luck.