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I would look into working as a caregiver or perhaps a receptionist at a hospital, assisted living facility, or in-home care agency. Caregiving you will be working alongside and/or under the direction of nurses and directly with residents/patients/clients, whereas as a receptionist you probably will not work with the nurses at all, but will get practice with multi-tasking.
For caregiving, you can either do in-home care or work in a type of facility (assisted/retirement, long-term care, or hospital.) In a facility, you are going to be on your feet for most or all of your shift, multi-tasking, and working with a variety of residents. The work is VERY fast-paced and the shifts are 8 hours, usually 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm, and 10pm-6am. For agency work, you will focus on working with one client at a time, usually in their home, so not much multi-tasking is necessary. They let you set your availability and then they find shifts to work around it, but the shifts are rarely 8 hours long, so you may find yourself working a lot of split shifts. But, those types of hours are very accommodating to school.
Good luck on your job hunt!
I agree with the above commentor for sure. I'm in the same boat. I was "displaced" earlier last year and am currently taking two prereqs before starting the program. I'm currently going through the interviewing process to be a nursing assistant at a local hospital. The way I figure it, that will give me exposure and patient care experience which should help during school and hopefully help me to get a job in the long run. The shifts are going to be killer starting out, but it is what it is.
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Hello, as a 31 yr old female, I recently decided to make a career transtion from business to nursing. I got my BBA (bachelor's in business managament) and now starting taking pre-requisites at a local community college. Recently, I got laid off from my full time job (non-medical related) and am having a hard time landing a job to give me hands on experience to build up my nursing resume as I continue to take classes part time. Can someone give me some sound advice as to where I can begin in my job hunt to to make sure this is the right transition for myself. What sort of jobs should I be targeting/applying for? I sincerly appreciate any feedback that could help give me more clarity. Thank you.