How do you stay encouraged?

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I am a soon-to-be new grad and the impending Job Search has put a complete damper in my mind. I am dreading graduation, dreading the job hunt, dreading the seemingly inevitable extensive period of unemployment with seemingly endless rejection.

I have even started looking into back-up plans such as going to grad school/ getting a second bachelor's for something in case I cannot get a job.

I know too many new grad nurses who have graduated 6 months-1 year ago who are either unemployed or underemployed or working below their license. I love nursing and the work involved, but the idea of being unemployed and uncertain for months and months on end with no guarantee scares me.

I don't have any work experience either than a few years ago when I had a summer job.

I don't have aid experience, or healthcare experience either than extensive (non hospital but clinical) volunteering and school. I am open to going out of state and working outside of the hospital, but I consider nursing homes as my last resort (I am interested in other non hospital things that are not in the nursing home, though).

How do you stay encouraged? Did you feel the same way in school? Do most people find a job in the end?

I don't know unless there's Chicago II somewhere and we are not talking about the same city, I had a different experience in Chicago. I had lots of clinicals there in 2006-2008. Yes, there are great hospitals in the city and burbs, but usually in upscale neighborhoods reflecting the ritzy population that lives around the hospital. Best example: Good Samaritan in Downers Grove. Everything is high class there, and the staff is nothing but the elite but alas, the patient clientele reflects that. Poor urban blacks don't go to Good Samaritan to get treated. Compared to inner city, it's like 2 different worlds.[/quote']

Yes, I also don't go to the inner city hospitals, but for the most part I still found that Rockford hospitals lacked the niceties of the Chicago area hospitals.

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Yes, I also don't go to the inner city hospitals, but for the most part I still found that Rockford hospitals lacked the niceties of the Chicago area hospitals.

Swedish American has everything you need in a hospital, including the Internet, very user-friendly (easy to use) electronic charting and medication barcode scanning. I haven't been to St. Anthony or Rockford Memorial yet, but if anything those hospitals have an even higher operating budget so probably they're not too shabby. Never saw barcode scanning in Chicago in 2006-2008-granted, that was 6 years ago and things must have changed.

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Swedish American has everything you need in a hospital including the Internet, very user-friendly (easy to use) electronic charting and medication barcode scanning. I haven't been to St. Anthony or Rockford Memorial yet, but if anything those hospitals have an even higher operating budget so probably they're not too shabby. Never saw barcode scanning in Chicago in 2006-2008-granted, that was 6 years ago and things must have changed.[/quote']

Yes a lot has changed since then. I was going to say I felt like Rockford memorial was one of the worst when I was looking in as an outsider---I am shocked to hear they have a higher budget!! They have carpeting in some of their units!!! EWW

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