First Year ICU

[VerCellPen]

If it is at all possible I would love to work in an ICU as a new grad, and I have been reading on here from numerous people saying it is possible, but is that still the case these days, because some of those posts seemed to be before the downshift in the economy, and hospitals started hiring freezes. I will be graduation in may and hope to get a job in an ICU in the Washington DC area, but with the downshift of the economy I am unsure whether that is possible or not, I feel that lately some new grads are hard pressed to find positions at all, let alone ICU. Does anybody know of any hospitals in the DC area that hire new grads into this position?

[ukstudent]

Washington Hospital Center used to. It hasn't hired a new grad into the ICU recently, however, by next year it might have changed again. For May grads they start interviewing in March for a July start date.

[CoffeeGeekRN]

Try Washington Adventist Hospital. If you will graduate with your BSN you can try Holy Cross and Suburban.

[ittybabyRN, RN]

Children's national if you like peds...they start interviews for the NICU in December/January, the other ICU's (PICU/CICU) start Feb/March

I graduated last May and interviewed in December and have just been there over a month now