HELP pls.. advice anyone

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I am fairly a new nurse with 7months nursing experience. graduated in DEC 2012. been applying to hospital job but was always rejected. I applied to nursing homes job and got quick response immediate. However, that is not my passion. I had a job offer at reliant rehab hospital in which i took however, it was a 3 days training.. keep in mind, i am a new nurse. 3 days training with no one to help you. so i quit afta 3 months cuz it is either i stay and lose my license or stay and get fired. i was having 10 patients a day. anyways i finally went back working at a nursing home. Now i am burned out working at nursing home, because i am not getting no experience or qualifications. I kept applying to hospitals still, no calls or interviews. I dont know what to do anymore. new grads are getting hospital jobs, i dont know y mine is different. i applied for RN. they stated i need to have 1 yr experience; i applied for new grad positions, no call back. I am abt to start my NP program and still be working at a nursing home.

so i have decided to look into traveling nurse or dialysis. I just need experience, works on my skills. I dont really care for the pay. I live in texas, dallas. Any advice pls. LTC facility is doing the same routine over again.. i felt more like a med aide.

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Specializes in Emergency.

No disrespect meant but what's your resume look like? Your post has multiple spelling, syntax and grammar errors. If your resume also has these types of errors, it might explain why it's being overlooked.

Good luck.

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Specializes in NICU.

If you are not getting interviews, then it is a resume issue. Either you are not presenting your clinical experiences/work experiences effectively or the resume itself is the issue. Many hospitals scan the resumes and the computer looks for key words in the resume or they don't like the look of the resume. I had someone that typed her resume on a typewriter using carbon copy sheets and everything was smashed into one long 3/4 page paragraph without punctuation (RN with 10 yrs experience) and folded into a small envelope, not a business size, this was a non-nursing job posting. Her resume went straight into the trash. I am not saying yours is that bad. Take your resume to your school's career center and have them critique and enhance it.

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Specializes in Hospice, Case Mgt., RN Consultant, ICU.

I agree with the two previous comments. Even though we nurses are usually not English majors like Garrison Keilor it is really difficult to read such poorly written comments. That said, traveling nurses need to have at least one years professional nursing experience.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Rehab.

Don't discount your LTC experience. You just have to describe it correctly to get a hospital recruiter's attention. You're getting tons of experience in time management, astute assessment (in a limited timeframe), med administration, wound care, dealing with families and documentation. All skills that you will build upon for the rest of your career. If your building has a skilled rehab unit, try to work there as often as possible. There are tons of skills to be learned in LTC!

Dialysis is not a bad field to be in, but it's very specialized and I honestly think you'd be better off getting broad experience in LTC than specialized experience in dialysis (unless of course you want to work in nephrology). Travel nursing is very difficult when you don't have experience because you're expected to walk in and be able to work with little to no orientation and training.

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Some graduate nurse residency programs have a "time limit" attached. Like if you graduated before X date, you will not be considered.

That being said, if you need a year, get a year. See if you can stick it out a little longer. They say the first year is the worse year. It's sounding more and more true with each post I read...

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.
I am fairly a new nurse with 7months nursing experience. graduated in DEC 2012. been applying to hospital job but was always rejected. I applied to nursing homes job and got quick response immediate. However that is not my passion. I had a job offer at reliant rehab hospital in which i took however, it was a 3 days training.. keep in mind, i am a new nurse. 3 days training with no one to help you. so i quit afta 3 months cuz it is either i stay and lose my license or stay and get fired. i was having 10 patients a day[/quote']

I highly doubt you were going to "lose your license."most BON's keep a list on line of why people lose their licenses, and it is normally for blatant acts of misconduct, such as stealing narcotics. Also, 10 pts for a rehab facility, isn't bad. I am not saying you didn't have a right to feel overwhelmed, I am just trying to say it could have been worse.

I am abt to start my NP program and still be working at a nursing home.

so i have decided to look into traveling nurse or dialysis. I just need experience, works on my skills. I dont really care for the pay. I live in texas, dallas. Any advice pls. LTC facility is doing the same routine over again.. i felt more like a med aide.

Travel nurse companies are not going to hire someone with only 7 months experience. You need 2 years experience minimum to be considered by most travel companies. Dialysis could be an option for you, if you find a site willing to train. Have you thought about home health?

Good luck with your NP program. It doesn't sound like you have the nursing basics down yet, so I would be hesitant to go back to school so quickly.

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