I'm have trouble finding a job...and advice for new LPN?

[goannain]

Hey all,

I just got my LPN license three weeks ago and I am having a helluva time finding a job...and I am actually going back to school in September for the RN program. I would like to work as an LPN but am looking for part-time so that I can survive when I go back to school. A lot of places that are part-time is looking for "experienced" LPNs. I haven't found any part-time positions in nursing homes. Plus I'd HATE to have start a full-time job and then move to part-time in only a couple of months, because those couple of months is probably mostly training! I wouldn't even have really "worked" as a nurse yet! Geez...where is a good place for me to look? Would it be advisable for me to state in an interview that I'm going back to school for RN? They might look at me like..."She's definitely NOT going to be long term! Why should we hire her?" I need job experience!!!

Thanks,

LPN in Washington

[AllSmiles225]

I actually am in the same position. I got my job less than a month ago. I was hired as a "per diem" employee. I gave them all my weekends, thats the only thing that I have to work--everything else is extra because I am, like you going back to school in September. I told them in my interview that I was going back to school..you could never keep a secret like that. Something will come along..hopefully for a company that will realize the value of having an employee who has the work ethic to work and go back to school. Good luck--something WILL come along.