when to contact recruitment

[ava'smomRN]

hello,

i am starting to post a lot here. lol

i have another quetion. I am hired for a position as an RN, I am currently working in the unit as a CNA. My nurse manager told me to call recruitment to schedule my orientation and such.

i was wondering if i should wait to call the recruiter when i have my RN or GN, or call now to start everything?

[Brian, ASN, RN]

First of all Congrats on getting a job! That's great!

I'm sure you could contact recruitment, they would be aware that you don't have your RN yet, they'd probably tell you what they need from you.

Glad you are liking allnurses.com! Good Luck with your new career as a nurse!

[ava'smomRN]

thanks brian. btw, i LOVE allnurses.com:)

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

I was able to interview and secure a position at the facility where I worked as an unlicensed employee before beginning my final semester of nursing school. I think the opportunity might have been available to any prospective grad, but since I already worked there, my manager and director made sure I knew about it. It had always been my intention to stay on the same unit, and knowing I had a job waiting was one less thing to worry about during my final semester.

The interview was interesting. It began with my director saying, "Well, of course you've got the job, obviously..." I still had sweaty palms, but it definitely took some of the pressure off. We had a nice chat about how the orientation process would work, scheduling, NCLEX, licensing, and the fact that while unlicensed and ancillary personnel were valued employees, nursing is pretty much what a hospital is all about. (That turns out to have good and not-so-good points--it's nice that so much of the focus is recruiting and retaining nurses. As nurse, you're kinda indispensible. But it can also feel like you're responsible for pretty much everything, because at times you pretty much are. If the aides don't do their jobs, it's up to you to deal with it. If respitatory therapy drops the ball, even though they aren't under our supervision, it's still on us to make sure the patient gets the care they need. If the doctor or the pharmacy messes up, we're supposed to catch it--and if we don't somebody might die. It's a lot of responsibility, along with all the hard work of our own actual jobs. Still, one unit I worked on had a sign on the doctor's conference room that said, "If the nurses ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." And there's some truth to that. While there are defnitely limits to how far it goes, it's a fact of life that there are people in management whose main job is keeping you happy and productive.