As a RN have you ever had a problem finding a job?

Problem finding a job? In a word....no.

I once quit an RN position in TX and moved to ME with nothing but an interview scheduled......I was at work within a week!

Travel nursing is an option also. They do require that you have some experience, though. It won't be the first job you'd get.

I've only worked in Wisconsin, but in two very different areas. I've never had a problem finding a job. In fact, I've always gotten exactly the job I wanted.

no .. i have never had trouble finding a job....

YES...I'm having a helluva time. I can only work like 6 days a month because I'm disabled and need evening/nights and weekends only. We live in a very rural area and I only have an Associate's Degree...there are like 3 ads in our local newspaper wanting an RN with a BSN or MSN. ARGH! I'd like to go back to school but really cannot afford to.

I have submitted my resume online at Monster....I've mailed my resume to a few places...I've made tons of phone calls asking if someone is hiring. I have done everything I know of to try to get a job. Of course, if I wanted to travel 2 hours away one way I could work in Kansas City. But I hate driving and leaving my boys with a sitter. My hubby is an over the road truck driver so he is only home sporadically. I do have family that could watch my babies, but with the price of gas and having to be on the road 4 hours per day...ARGH!

Blessings, Michelle

I have been fortunate. Anywhere I have wanted to go to and work, I have always been able to find work. I even took a job in Hawaii, spent a year there, loved it. Beach time, golf time, SURFing time. Party time.

It was a dream.

Sometimes with large cooperations it can take some time to make it through the hiring process but no I've never had a hard time getting a job. I think it's got to be the easiest profession to obtain a job fast no matter where you go...now if we could just get a "national license" it would make it even easier.

Nope,.never had problems finding a job as an RN.

I've lived in NY (state, not city) and SC and I have never had a problem finding a job.

I live in NYC and i just got my RN license last month. Im STILL looking for a job. I got my associates degree in nursing and a bachelors degree in lib arts. i applied to many hospitals but i still havent heard a thing! any suggestions??

YES...I'm having a helluva time. I can only work like 6 days a month because I'm disabled and need evening/nights and weekends only. We live in a very rural area and I only have an Associate's Degree...there are like 3 ads in our local newspaper wanting an RN with a BSN or MSN. ARGH! I'd like to go back to school but really cannot afford to.

I have submitted my resume online at Monster....I've mailed my resume to a few places...I've made tons of phone calls asking if someone is hiring. I have done everything I know of to try to get a job. Of course, if I wanted to travel 2 hours away one way I could work in Kansas City. But I hate driving and leaving my boys with a sitter. My hubby is an over the road truck driver so he is only home sporadically. I do have family that could watch my babies, but with the price of gas and having to be on the road 4 hours per day...ARGH!

Blessings, Michelle

Have you asked for per diem?

forgive me if that's an obvious question!

In 4 1/2 years I have changed jobs about 6 times and never once had a problem getting hired. But not every nursing job is worth having. Having said that, I'm male (which I have experienced to be a plus), I'm fit, positive and energetic, ICU qualified (with PALS as well as ACLS), and have a lot of cardiac experience. I also like to work nights.

All that adds up to value for the employer.

If I had all kinds of preconditions on when or where I could work, if I had no experience except with medical patients, if I looked slovenly or unprofessional, and if I looked lazy, I might only get hired by the most desperate of places, and I've worked in some of those places when I was a traveler.

I am now trying to get hired at a military base, which is some place I think I would really like to work. The application takes longer, but hopefully in 2-3 weeks I'll be doing shifts. Hopefully, my value as an employee will work out for me.

It is true there is a shortage of bedside staff nurses (and that's all the shortage includes). So, jobs are easier to find as a registered nurse, but value as an employee to the employer always matters if you're going to get to work where you want to work.

Sorry if I sound like I'm pontificating here or acting like I know it all. I don't, and I could be wrong. This is just how it has seemed to be for me.

Oh, and by the way, I have an ADN, and a B.Sc. in Liberal Arts. Having an ADN has never, near as I can tell mattered. One place would have given me a dollar an hour more I think, but it certainly didn't affect the hiring decision. The place I'm applying now doesn't even seem to care, and doesn't pay more one way or another. Having said that, I'm not trying to become a NP or CRNA or a manager. I'd go for an RN-MSN program, but I can't afford it, I don't need it, and the idea of doing clinicals for which I am not getting paid is abhorent to me. A CCRN might be cool. I might look into that, but again, no employer has ever inquired whether or not I had one.

I should become an ACLS instructor. Now, that would gaurantee me a job in just about any hospital I wanted!