EMT new to forum

i wish you the best of luck in your schooling !! i did not graduate from appollo , but i am sure you will hear from people who have . i know right now UMC is at a hiring freeze and not hiring anyone. many of the hospitals in las vegas have stopped hiring new grads, or anyone at this time. hopefully the ecomony will pick up and new grads will be hired again soon.

my friend was just hired at valley hospital and she graduated from CSN RN program last may and was just hired last month. the hospitals typically only hire one or two grads every few months. i am not sure if sunrise and north vista is hiring new grads at this time...

by the time you graduate maybe all the hiring freezes sould be off.. i hope so.. keep us posted on your schooling ..

Hey all,

My name's Nick and I'm brand new to the forum. I'm an EMT and I start the RN program @ Apollo College on April 6th. My mom's a RN and my dad's an MD so of course I had to enter into the bastard child of medicine, EMS. I've come to my senses and I am so excited to start nursing school. Anybody else starting Apollo in April? I've been browsing hospital websites gandering at jobs. It seems like UMC is one of the only places that routinely hires newgrads into the ER/ICU? Is that right?

Congrats on getting in Nick, all the best of luck to you. I too am interested in Apollo when and if they open their new campus up here in Reno. Was it hard to get into your program ?

hi nick,

did you take the net and do the interview all on the day you went to the info session?

Ahh---When did you go to the info session?

No. I went to the info session. A week later I took the NET test and maybe a week after that I did my interview. If you're in Admissions calls you and schedule you for a Financial Aid meeting. You get your paperwork, fill it out, bring it back. FA goes over it. Then you do all your paperwork with Admissions, do your drug test and background check and then you're in like flint.

Nick, may i ask, did all your financial aid cover the hefty tuition ? I'm afraid that my entire tuition won't be covered (i've completed most of the pre-reqs) and it would be really hard to get private loans on my end. How do you know if all your tuition is covered or not ? Please share :wink2:

i don't know whay they have listings.. but i know UMC is having a hiring freeze at this time, one of my friends was offered a full time job there ( 2 weeks ago) and then it was rescinded because of the hiring freeeze and now she's jobless. i know the valley health system is not hiring or rarely hiring because i am a RN for them and have worked for them for 5 years. they have laid off alot of high level RN positions.

the reason my (another friend) friend got a job at valley is because my sister is also a RN there and she found her a job at night on her floor. my friend graduated last may and was just hired recently as a new grad. i tried to get her a job on my floor but there was no openings. it was just by luck my sister's floor had a opening for her.