I'm due to graduate in early December with my BSN and the school I'm going to is telling me I shouldn't have a problem taking the NCLEX in late January.....hopefully all goes well and I pass the NCLEX, but I'm going to start applying to jobs now just to get the ball rolling.
I'm planning to apply to NYCHHC (the new city hospital system), some long term care facilities and I was also considering applying through the temporary staffing agency that I'm hoping to find some work as a CNA through (once I'm done with school, my schedule is too weird now, and I wouldn't apply to the staffing agency as a nurse until after I passed the NCLEX). I know new grad orientation can run from 6 months to a year typically in NYC, but I think it's shorter through the agency. Has anyone started their nursing career through a staffing agency?
Well I have to disagree. I graduated last December and started working in jan in my hospitals float pool. Slightly different because I wasn't working in different hospitals. But I am working all over the hospital. And I love it. I've learnt so much more than I could of if I worked in one area. I like the variety. The flexibility. It's worked out really well for me.
Yes but they probably provided you with orientation on the units you were going to work. Staffing agency typical does not provide that type of orientation.
Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
I get it's different.
I moved to a new town for this job so everything was completely different to where I had studied. I got two months of orientation. Which I thought was fine. I've work in areas where I recieved no orientation which has never been an issue.
If you get it's different, then why did your original reply make it sound like you thought it was the same? It's definitely not.
middleagednurse
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Working for a staffing agency is hard when you are experienced. I can't imagine doing it as a new grad. They will have your head.