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hello everyone out there is nursing land...............

i am brand new to this website and this is my first post..

i am 24 years old and a single mother of one. i have never held a job a day in my life because i was always a stay at home mom. my daughter started school last year and i took the opportunity to go back to school. i am currently enrolled in an lpn program with a tentative graduation date that is set for january, 2010. putting into the consideration the state of the economy i am so afraid that i will graduate, pass my boards and be unable to get a job at all because of not having any work experience at all... i guess my question to you guys is:

1. will this negatively affect me because i have no work experience whats-o-ever when applying for an lpn position?

2. i have volunteer experience but none of them has anything to do with the health field. should i still put these things on my resume? would it even help?

what would employers think if my resume is only half of page long?:crying2:

thanks in advance.....

diane

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Do not worry. Nurses training is very specific and there is no work you could have done before nursing school that any employer could consider on a resume to consider in giving you a nursing job. When we hired new graduate nurses, the only information we considered or were interested in was recommendations from the student's instructors. Why? Because they are the only people who have seen and evaluated how you are going to be able to perform as LPNs or RNs and that is what we were most interested in. We also asked about your class and clinical attendance and your attitude and a few behavior traits, such as:

  • Initiative - Autonomy
  • Dynamism - Energy
  • Positive outlook
  • Responsibility
  • Orientation to the client and co-workers (ability to provide customer service)
  • Learning capacity
  • Productivity
  • High adaptability - Flexibility
  • Leadership
  • Team work
  • Tolerance to pressure
  • Analytic ability
  • Professional development

The only thing former employers can tell us is whether you followed rules, were a good employee and had a good attendance record. They could give us absolutely no information about what you learned in nursing school.

thank you so much for your reply. i really appreciate it

If you look around the site, you'll see that people who are going into nursing from a successful prior career are terribly disappointed or irritated to find that their previous experience and accomplishments count for practically nothing when they enter nursing. Nursing is so different from other kinds of work that previous experience (or lack of previous experience) count for very little -- new grads all start out with pretty much the same "clean slate."

As Daytonite noted, potential employers are interested in little beyond how well you did in nursing school.

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