How is the New grad job situation in HTX?

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Hello all, I am new here. I have been reading this site for advice for a few years now.

I will be graduating with my ADN in May 2019. I want to move to HTX and work in the medical center. I will be applying to New grad residency programs as soon as they open up next month. However after reading a few posts on here from 2011 about new grads not being able to find jobs in the TMC, I am very discouraged. Has the job situation changed? What are my chances of being hired from out of state and only having my ADN? I am only applying to residencies that accept both ADN and BSN. I am really hoping to get hired at Memorial Hermann in the ICU or step-down unit but ill work on any med-surg unit if it means having a job lol. I am desperate to get out of my hometown in Oklahoma and really have my heart set on Houston. Any realistic advice would be helpful, my next best city is Dallas.

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Best realistic advice, to be honest, is to get your BSN right away. With the recommendation now official for BSN as entry level and the state of New York having made this official law, the ADN is seeing much more trouble in some areas getting hired on. Houston is definitely one of those areas. However, you can still find things in more remote and rural areas. The Texas/Mexico border remains very friendly to ADN new grads.

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Wow this is very discouraging. I guess I will have to enroll into a BSN program right after graduation. My heart is set on Houston, I’ve worked so hard on my ADN and it feels all for nothing.

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Just because you can't have everything you want immediately doesn't mean it is "for nothing". Many to most people don't get their location or specialty of choice right out of the gate. Consider getting your foot in the door at a hospital not in the immediate Houston area, get your year of acute care experience and your BSN and you will find you can easily move to Houston then.

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50 minutes ago, not.done.yet said:

Just because you can't have everything you want immediately doesn't mean it is "for nothing". Many to most people don't get their location or specialty of choice right out of the gate. Consider getting your foot in the door at a hospital not in the immediate Houston area, get your year of acute care experience and your BSN and you will find you can easily move to Houston then.

I’m starting to understand that now. I’m just really bummed that my job prospects outside of Oklahoma aren’t good. I’m enrolling into a BSN program right after I graduate.

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