I'm considered inexperienced.

[usernameallnurse]

I'm really frustrated because job hunting for me is a nightmare right now. I'm trying to look for a job in the acute care area and all of the positions I applied for have been turned down because I'm am inexperienced in acute care nursing. I worked in a hospital as a mother baby nurse as a LPN for three years and then as a RN for six months. I know it's not the emergency room or a seriously critical unit but there are real emergencies that do arise and I just wish that they could take that into consideration that I have dealt with emergencies as a postpartum and

nursery nurse of level I & II. I also had 3 months of long-term care nursing which I know they don't take that into consideration obviously. Total RN experience 6 months Mother/baby and 3 months LTC. I can't get in a grad nurse residency program because I'm greater than six months post-graduation. So how am I supposed to gain experience if I'm not excepted because I don't have any experience? I am in the process of obtaining my ACLS. Any advice??????

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

So how am I supposed to gain experience if I'm not excepted because I don't have any experience? I am in the process of obtaining my ACLS. Any advice??????

Obviously everyone cannot or will not relocate, but there are hospitals in other states that will hire and train you. These facilities tend to be in states where people are not exactly flocking: North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, rural Oklahoma, South Texas near the Mexican border, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and so forth.

If you were to submit an online application today to facilities such as Fort Duncan Medical Center, you'd receive a callback within a day or two. However, many people cannot or will not pick up the pieces of their lives to relocate away from a glutted employment market. Good luck to you.