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[JessyPaige_93]

Hello all! I just recently recieved my letter from the saying that I passed the state CNA test. I got 66/75 questions correct on the written part and passed all 5 skills. I am also freshly CPR/AED First Aid certified for professional and health care responders. I have applied to every hospital around my area and cannot seem to even get an interview! I am at Spalding University, I apply for the nursin program in January 2014 and I have a 3.8 GPA. I have applied for everything from a PCA/Unit seceratary to a receponist to a transporter. I have no experience in health care but I have held a job in customer service for 5 years. I just dont understand what I am doing wrong or what I need to do. Please any suggestions would be great!

[Just_keep_swimming]

Where I live, you must have 1 year of healthcare experience as a CNA ( usually in a long term care facility) before they'll hire you to work in a hospital, do the places you are applying to have that requirement? Have you called back & followed up w/ the HR dept?

[JessyPaige_93]

Some say 6 months but the transporter jobs and some of the pca jobs dont say a word about having experience. they even say will train on job. I have had LTCs call and when they find out I have no experience they turn me down. I am going to call some HR department on Monday to follow up with the apps I put in on friday.

[mintygirl]

Keep applying for SNF/LTC as they are the ones most likely to take new grads with zero experience. You're allowed to apply every 90 days and it typically helps to apply to the place you interned at. The reason I say SNF is that some of them are sub-acute (which you wont find out which ones are until your actually on the job, typically) but hospitals do like some sub-acute experience vs no acute exp. Everyone and I mean everyone's mom, brother, sister and kitty cat want to get into a hospital so you're competing against everyone. PCT jobs don't require exp, typically but they do require a CNA license - which puts you in the same field of everyone with a CNA applying for said job with exp. So that's why you're probably not getting a call back from hospitals and typically they prefer PCA/PCT to be 1 year into an RN program too.

[JessyPaige_93]

landed a job interview on tuesday for a pca for a diaylsis iv thearpy department at a hospital any advice on what to take with me other than a copy of my resume and references?