Graduate RN Job search advice

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I am about to graduate with my BSN this May. Unfortunately, I do not have a job yet. I have applied to about 5 hospitals near my hometown, however, I only got 4 interviews and no offers. I was trying to apply for a nurse residency position in the ICU, but I did not realize how competitive it is. Apparently, most hospitals only have very few positions open for new grads in the ICU. And at this point I am panicking because most of my peers already have jobs or multiple job offers.

However, I do have one last opportunity to get a job at the hospital I do my clinicals at. The only hesitation I had about working at this hospital is that it is about 4 hours away from my hometown. With that said I actually like the hospital itself. The problem is the hiring manager reached out to me, but he offered me an interview for a floor that I was not too familiar with and I took because he said that is one of the only units still looking to interview people. But I am currently doing my clinicals on the oncology floor and I love it! And according to my friends who already got hired there and nurses on the floor there are still spots open. And they like to hire people who do there clinicals there. My question to y'all is would it be bad to directly email the manager of the floor to see if there is still an opportunity to interview for a position even though I already accepted to interview on different unit in the same hospital. Honestly, my number 1 choice would be working on the oncology unit, but I still kind of want to interview at the other floor just in case I do not get an interview with the oncology unit. I am just scared the managers of both floors might look down upon trying to get a job at the same hospital but in two different units.

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