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Officially: no, it is not nursing experience.
In addition to networking, letting you keep some skills up and building the resume, it can impress recruiters/HR enough to consider taking a gamble on your application. It won't guarantee you a job, but it may snag you a look-see that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It did for me :)
Misseslloyd
25 Posts
The state I am living in (Hawaii) is extremely difficult to get hired as a new graduate in. I have been offered a volunteer position though. Does this count as experience? We wil be moving in several years and most hospitals require minimum one year acute care experience so i'm just trying to figure out if volunteer experience still counts.