California nurse residencies

[tgowitt1]

Hello nurses! I will be graduating in May 2019 and my wife and I are looking to relocate to Northern California soon thereafter. To begin researching New Grad programs, where should I focus? Are they competitive? Do they tend to accept out-of-state applicants and how important is a graduation GPA? I currently have tech experience in critical care and aiming for an ED position if I can be that picky.

Anyone who has experience doing this, please enlighten me. Thank you everyone for your time!

[Sour Lemon]

Hello nurses! I will be graduating in May 2019 and my wife and I are looking to relocate to Northern California soon thereafter. To begin researching New Grad programs, where should I focus? Are they competitive? Do they tend to accept out-of-state applicants and how important is a graduation GPA? I currently have tech experience in critical care and aiming for an ED position if I can be that picky.

Anyone who has experience doing this, please enlighten me. Thank you everyone for your time!

In general, California is saturated with new graduates. Some actually have to leave the state to get experience. I'm in the South. GPA requirements are not uncommon. A BSN is also required or very highly preferred by many hospitals. Tech experience may be helpful, but I get the impression that it's not a huge consideration. I've seen new nurses on my unit passed over, even though they worked as techs on the same unit and were well liked. There just weren't enough open positions.

You might want to specify where in Northern California you're hoping to land for more focused answers.

[NICUismylife, ADN, BSN, RN]

NoCal and SoCal are both saturated markets. I'm from the Central Valley and we often had people from other areas of CA have to come work in my city to get experience for a couple years before they could find a job back home. You may want to get experience where you are first, or move to a less desirable area of CA, such as Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield, etc.

[tgowitt1]

Thanks for the advice guys. In or around Sacramento, UC Davis or others. Will have BSN next year. Coming from a world away (Atlanta), which the metro area tends to be saturated as well.

[quittaRN]

Take a look at Sutter Health System they hire new grads to also a big hospital system so there are multiple hospitals also check out Dignity Health they also hire new grads. I know that Kaiser doesn't hire new grads but you can check if for some reason they might. I do know Lucile Packard/Stanford is currently hiring for their new grad programs but that would be too far of a commute for you. Good luck!