help i am trying to find an er job!

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Specializes in ED, Critical care/ICU.

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:I was a police officer for 9 years and am now an RN, BSN. I have 2 years experience on an ortho/trauma med/surg unit at a level one trauma center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am getting ACLS certification on Monday. I feel like the ER is where I am meant to be, but I have found that most of the jobs posted require prior ER experience, and thus I am not getting any interviews. I would have started off in the ER as a new grad, but I thought it would be better to gain some basic med/surg skills first. I am now regretting that decision. Does anyone have any advice that may help me? I am willing to relocate ANYWHERE as well as willing to take any coursework that may increase my chances of landing a job.

Tracey :banghead:

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Specializes in Occupational health, Corrections, PACU.
:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:I was a police officer for 9 years and am now an RN, BSN. I have 2 years experience on an ortho/trauma med/surg unit at a level one trauma center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am getting ACLS certification on Monday. I feel like the ER is where I am meant to be, but I have found that most of the jobs posted require prior ER experience, and thus I am not getting any interviews. I would have started off in the ER as a new grad, but I thought it would be better to gain some basic med/surg skills first. I am now regretting that decision. Does anyone have any advice that may help me? I am willing to relocate ANYWHERE as well as willing to take any coursework that may increase my chances of landing a job.

Tracey :banghead:

Hey Tracey....I was just about to post this job ad in corrections nursing, and I saw your post.

I ran across this today. Sometimes you find things in strange places. USA Jobs has a posting:

Job Title: Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic

Department: Department Of Justice

Agency: Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System

Sub Agency: Federal Bureau of Prisons

Job Announcement Number: OTV-2010-0028

SALARY RANGE:

$55,283.00 - $71,328.00 /yearOPEN PERIOD:

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 to Thursday, September 09, 2010SERIES & GRADE:

GL-0640-09/09POSITION INFORMATION:

Full Time PermanentPROMOTION POTENTIAL:

09DUTY LOCATIONS:

Your experience would fit the bill

exactly. Check out the job

requirements at their site.

I thought it might be nice for even

a new nurse that was former EMT.

Since new grads are having a hard time

finding jobs, I thought I would post it.

As a former officer, you would feel right

at home, and the salary is okay even for

a nurse.

1 vacancy - FCI Otisville

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Specializes in med-surg, step-down, ICU/CCU, ED.

Hi Tracey,

I had the same issue you did a year ago; I was a nurse with 5+ years experience (ICU and med/surg) but when I tried to make the move to the ED I hit a brick wall. NO ONE would hire me, but they would forward my resume to their hosptital's ICUs and ask me to apply there :(

What I ended up doing was applying to the smaller EDs in more distant communities. That seemed to work because I was offered a position at a community ED and am finishing up my year there. Since I now have ED experience I was easily able to find a position at a large level one trauma center in the city.

Perhaps you can look outside of Cincinnati for the smaller EDs. It's a start. I am sorry you are having so much trouble finding an ED position though, who knew having that one year of med-surg experience everyone preaches about would count against you??

Good luck. Sometimes you have to start small before you go big. :)

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I've been giving thought to BOP myself post-graduation. Having been in LE and EMS it seems like it'd fit me well. I'd rather work for USPHS and get assigned to BOP though.

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PM me and if you are willing to relocate as you say I know of a Level 1 trauma center hiring new grads and nurses from the floors in the ED.

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Specializes in ED only.

Give yourself 6 more months where you are and then start applying for ER positions nationwide. Two years is the usual criteria of previous experience before you can apply for an ER position. In 6 more months, you will meet that criteria and someone will probably give you a chance. We just hired a fairly new grad into our ER who had 1.3 years of experience out of nursing school which is not our norm but she is working out great. Just keep seeking those opportunities and hopefully, you will land your dream job.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Medsurg.

I know of a small community hospital also hiring. The hospital is wonderful, the people are great. The area is well, um, its very rural southern and the pay matches that, if you get my drift. PM me if you want details, but the Level 1 sounds good. Good Luck!

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Specializes in CCRN, CEN.
:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:I was a police officer for 9 years and am now an RN, BSN. I have 2 years experience on an ortho/trauma med/surg unit at a level one trauma center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am getting ACLS certification on Monday. I feel like the ER is where I am meant to be, but I have found that most of the jobs posted require prior ER experience, and thus I am not getting any interviews. I would have started off in the ER as a new grad, but I thought it would be better to gain some basic med/surg skills first. I am now regretting that decision. Does anyone have any advice that may help me? I am willing to relocate ANYWHERE as well as willing to take any coursework that may increase my chances of landing a job.

Tracey :banghead:

Tracey.....If you're a rock star and a great team player and enjoy working with male RN's then apply for the ER at University Miss Medical Center in Jackson, MS.....it's a level 1 trauma center. University of Mississippi Medical Center

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Small world Tracey! I'm a volunteer in at the Level 1 Trauma Center in Cincy!

I know, the job market here stinks.

Most of the jobs I found "prefer" certain types of experience, but not required. Here are a few jobs I found:

RN Emergency Department Job in FAYETTEVILLE (Georgia, USA, United States) - Vacancy 4224307

Shawnee Mission

Florida Hospital Flagler RN ED Palm Coast FL

This one considers new grads and offers ED training - Search Manufacturing & Production Jobs & Resumes, Find Career Resources - ManufacturingWorkers.com

MultiCare Health System - Tacoma Staff RN (V ah) - US 98401

Good luck to you!

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Specializes in Emergency.

Don't give up, keep looking. Our ER constantly hires new grads. You'll find it's a frustrating, thankless, underpaid job. Plus people will always want you to tell exciting ER stories. It's annoying. They want to hear about new exciting ways people have found for accidentally cutting off body limbs but your stories will be about a 98 YOA NH PT ICU hold you tried to keep alive for 8 hours while dealing with a 40 YOA drunk, crack addict HIV positive nose bleed who requires a blood transfusion who can't understand that HIV is contagious and you don't want it and they keep blowing their nose and slinging her blood around the room carelessly , while dealing with a 14 month old child with a fever 105 degrees without a source and whose parents don't speak a lick of English and then don't seem to understand they have to stay with the child and so when you go recheck the temp, the kid is alone in the crib, and your last PT will be a 32 YOA pt who is MR who keeps taking his helmet off before he seizes who is deathly afraid of everything and requires half the ER staff to lay on him to attempt an IV start so you can conscious sedate him for the CT scan and lac repair. During the IV attempt a coworker accidently gets stuck with the needle and it is unclear if it happened before or after the pt was stuck with the same needle due to his screaming and thrashing. While you are thrown, face down across the man, attempting to dress the eight bleeding holes from failed IV attempts, the worst ER doc ever, comes into the room and starts whining because she is tired of waiting on a UA that was only sent 15 min ago. When you gently suggest through gritted teeth she call the lab and check on the results herself, she sucks her teeth and rolls her eyes and storms off. Then the unit clerk calls you out of the room for an important phone call. Phone call winds out to be family of the ICU hold who can't be bothered to come be with the pt but different family members call every half hour to see if the pt is still in the ER or in an ICU bed yet. Lord knows no one but the primary nurse can answer that question, so by all means, call her out of the room to talk to that person on the phone. Meanwhile, family from another room stops you for ice and a blanket and get mad when you ask them to go back to their room and someone will bring it shortly. "Can't you just get it now?" Then the drunk pt starts screaming, cursing and flinging racial slurs about. Informs you that you are several, undesirable things. At least, that's only what you can assume because she has no teeth and who can be really certain what she is saying, but it is evident she thinks you are stupid and a piece of trash and informs you several times that she will have your job. That's when you gladly offer it to her, "you can have it." That would be when the administrators of the hospital choose to make their yearly rounds through the ER. You know, the one time they deam to come down to the basement with us dregs of society. As they cower and slink around and attempt not to get dirty with their fake smiles plastered on their faces, they happen to over hear the first time you respond in not the best way to the drunk who has been verbally abusing you all day and you know you're going to get to hear about it later as they look at you disdainfully because clearly you don't know what you're doing because the pt is screaming and you must be doing something wrong. Can't do that now because here comes blue baby. Blue baby who was born prematurely at 7 mos to a 16 YOA girl who is MR and who religiously sleeps in bed with baby. A 16 YOA girl who weighs about 300 lbs. And then when the baby who is in rigor ultimately gets called the MR mother throws her full body weights on you, kicking, and screaming, and you're expected to allow her to snot on you and pick her off the ground as the family stares. When you suggest it probably wasn't a good idea to allow MR 16 YOA to sleep with the underweight infant you're told, "well, we done told her not to." Guess instructing a 16 yoa MR mother not to sleep in the bed with baby releases you of responsibility. Then you get told by the family they knew they shouldn't have taken the baby in rigormortous to your ER because your hospital sucks and they should've taken her across town.

Good luck and welcome!

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Specializes in med-surg, step-down, ICU/CCU, ED.

^^ You must work at my ED, lol.

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PM me and if you are willing to relocate as you say I know of a Level 1 trauma center hiring new grads and nurses from the floors in the ED.

Hi, LVAD RN I am a new grad RN from cleveland area and looking for the job now. I was trying to send you message, the page doesn't allow me. I just want to know if the hospital which are hiring new grads is located in cleveland area. if it is would you like to send me e-mail. my e-mail is [email protected]

Thank you so much

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