How do you get a job if you don't have any experience!

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Hi all,

My name is Shannon and I live here in sunny beautiful California. I recently passed my nclex pn, and so did alot of my classmates. Two of them took it and passed about two months ago, and they still don't have jobs.What's up with that. It's funny because we were talking about how a little over a year ago there were so many jobs in the paper all it said was Rn and Lvn so that's what kind of motivated us to go to school. And now a year later all we see are caregivers and of course Rn's and tons and tons of cna postings in the newspaper. So what does that mean for the rest of us who are looking and can't find anything. And to mention we don't have experience so that really narrows the field for jobs.So what do we do, where do we go to get a decent job? does this mean that we are slowly but suerely being booted out of the profession. I mean if I was an Rn Im pretty sure it wouldn't be this hard to find a job. I kind of feel like if I don't move up and get my Rn I should get out beacause that's all that there going to want in the nursing profession.

Help in California!:uhoh3:

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Hi, I live in California also..I gradauated from LVN school in May 2006..Well, my instructor told me it took a student one year and she was a RN to find a job...

The previous LVN class, which was 1.5 years ago, many of the students found jobs and they often quit a job for a better one..

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Yes I kinda thought it would be hard here too (ohio) cause my local hospital had no positions for a new nurse, I took nclex june 5th and we have a college here in my town with a ADN program, all the grads who haven't taken the nclex yet had all the positions taken and held. But I actually found a job 30 min away in less than a month from taking the nclex. Just relax and keep looking, something is out there for you just keep applying!!!

Goodluck

AmyD RN

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Generally, a lot of hospitals have cut back on LVN's. So, that may be the problem.

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