Getting a hospital job

[IreneK]

Hello! I am currently working on my pre nursing courses and I would really like to find a hospital job. The problem is everyone wants experience! I would prefer something with patient contact but I would be willing to start anywhere! I am currently volunteering at SLU Hospital hoping that it might help my chances (and to just be in a hospital setting)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get noticed? Suggestions for my resume or really any advice would be great, thanks!

[archangel31]

This might be a stupid question, but do you not have a nursing assistant cert.? You did not mention it, but if you did, you could work in the hospital that way. Otherwise, as to the point of getting noticed, I would say that some things you can do would be showing up on time, if not a few minutes early, for each shift; showing great interest in doing the best you can at what ever job you do at the hospital; showing interest in learning new tasks from other staff members who will offer to teach you OR asking to observe/learn new tasks from other employees, and always making a true effort to smile and be as pleasant to all you come in contact with when working. Aside from skills, which are no less important, these behaviors will get noticed by your co-workers, which will go up the chain to management, and also by any patients because some of them will make comments about the personnel who they feel went the extra mile for them. Much luck to you in your studies and blessings:)

[TeleNurse2010]

If you have no healthcare experience, I would suggest you apply to any position in the hospital that you do qualify for. Once you are accepted into nursing school and finish your first semester, you have a better chance of being hired as patient care tech/cna in the hospital and can transfer to a patient care position. You can also work in a nursing home for awhile, get your cna, then transfer to a hospital once you have experience. Volunteering may help you get noticed, but I don't know of any techs that got their position by volunteering. Of course, it is something that will look good on your resume, so by all means, continue to volunteer until you get a job within the hospital. Good luck!

[icurnedu]

St. Anthony's Medical Center is hiring for a SNAP (Student Nurse Apprentice Position) you have to have completed fundementals in nursing though. Other than that most hospitals b/c of the new guidelines are not hiring techs or aides without experience or certifications. The state now requires 100 didactic hours and 75 clinical hours before your released off orientation. St. Anthony's offers this twice a year but will more than likely go away soon. Go online to see if there is a SNAP position available. FYI the VBP is really putting a cruch on all hosptials nationwide, census is down at an average of 6% a lot of us are lossing money so they don't want to spend a lot of extra to train you from scratch.