Hospital, clinic or nursing home?

[LuluaspiringRN]

Hi guys! I just need some enlightment. I passed NCLEX 2 weeks ago. From then, I already applied to multiple online openings but since I'm a foreign graduate with years of hospital experience so I really don't know what to choose. Last week I was interviewed in a nursing, they give me 32/hour working for 40 hours. Yesterday, I was interviewed in a Vascular clinic 35/hour for 40 hours Monday to Friday. Tomorrow, I will go to an interview again for a nursing home. But this morning I received an email from one of the hospitals that they are considering me for RN residency program(which I really like but I heard they might fire me after 14 weeks of residency and my question is. Is there any salary for a residency program? If you were trained are they really going to absorb you? I always want to work in the hospital. On monday, I'll be for an interview on psychiatric hospital for RN 3 with sign in bonus.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

I'm confused on what you mean by "If you were trained, are they going to absorb you?' Usually if a facility is going to train you, they do so with the intent of keeping you. It costs approx. 40k for a person to go through orientation.

Lastly, if I read your post correctly, are you wondering if you get paid for being in a residency program and the 14 week termination.

Yes, you will earn a wage for going through the residency program. Once through the program or probation period, an employer can let a person go. This time frame gives the employer an out, if they think the person will not be adequate.

IMO, I'd go to a hospital (sounds like a state job if you are an RN3), over a SNF. For starters, a state job gives you better benefits and you can transfer within the state. A SNF doesn't pay as well and getting out of a SNF into other areas of nursing can be difficult at best.