Hard to find a position

Generally, in this kind of situation, my advice is simply to BE PERSISTENT. While many potential employers may be reticent to hire anyone but nurses with recent experience or new grads, all you need is one that will give you a chance. Call back week after week asking about openings and expressing your continued interest in working at their facility. Something else to try is to see if there are any local refresher courses or local nursing programs that could set you up with a clinical experience or at least let you use their skills lab so that you could show employers just how motivated you are. Good luck!

i'm going to assume you are an RN. if so, i would call the nursing agencies first and see if they could temporarily help you out. if that does not work, call the HR department of the hospitals that you are interested in and ask to speak to the nurse recruiter. this usually works. sometimes they don't call back for various reasons, but if you explain that you are a new nurse that is motivated to work, trust me someone will hire you. there are too many RN positions out there that need to be filled. you say that you have a little NICU experience....how little? does your resume reflect stability or does it appear like you jump around too much? sometimes when you are a new nurse and you haven't held a hospital position for at least a year, employers are skeptical about taking a chance on you. any way, good luck and let us know what happens.