Career/Educational Guidance Much Needed

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Feeling completely lost. Am an LVN new grad. Job hunting for 1 year now. Should I: Go to Arkansas with my 6 mos temporary permit to get ANY kind of experience(jobs are available in LTC)? What happens to a new BSN graduate in So Cal with zero experience? What are these RN Graduate programs in hospitals and how do they work? Will jobs continue to be so scarce in the future? How can I get the guidance I need to make the most intelligent next step?

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Why just look at Arkansas? Why not a nationwide search for LPN jobs? Sounds like you are in Cali...try the next state over but all the way in Arkansas?

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The good thing about a career in nursing the growing job opportunities available. I think you should search beyond Arkansas...try looking in cities that are heavily populated and will therefore have a higher demand for nurses. Good luck!

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Feeling completely lost. Am an LVN new grad. Job hunting for 1 year now. Should I: Go to Arkansas with my 6 mos temporary permit to get ANY kind of experience(jobs are available in LTC)? What happens to a new BSN graduate in So Cal with zero experience? What are these RN Graduate programs in hospitals and how do they work? Will jobs continue to be so scarce in the future? How can I get the guidance I need to make the most intelligent next step?

If you are doing LVN-BSN you can get hired in hospitals. Your school will make you do a resume and cover letter assignment and then help you fix it up to look real good. There are many many BSN grads without experience and the hospitals want them because they want magnet status. If you can't find employment as an LVN I would suggest that you try to get any sort of employment at a hospital just to start out. Or get more training. As an LVN you might want to get phlebotomy training as that would make you more valuable. I went and got EMT training and that's what got me in my hospital now. I started out as a tech in the ER and then went to med/surg when I got my LVN license. Anything to get my foot in the door.

As an LVN you can apply to work in clinics too which is nice. No weekends and just doing 8-5. My friend went thru a big hospital corporation and got a job in one of their clinics for pediatrics and gave lots of shots to kids all day. There are many options. Good luck! :)

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You are very kind to take your time to write this. Thank you so much. You've given me good ideas. Foot in the door, that's the ticket. What do you think about getting in the door as a CNA? I shudder at the thought (just the heavy lifting, that's all).

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