Keiser U.

ORL campus here... everything looking good so far 3 weeks from graduation here

Cool....have you already found a job 3 weeks after graduation?

I graduated Keiser in Dec. from Jacksonville program... It was very hard, challenging, and I had great clinicals... I have NOT found a job - not even an interview at this point... That isn't the school though, just the job market for new nurses! Good Luck =)

I graduate April 23 from the Lakeland campus and I have had a job lined up for 4 weeks (formally). I start orientation May 10th. I got a job as a Nurse tech at a local hospital in the Mental Health Unit in December and my manager offered me their only FT days position open after working there for 2 months. My best advise for any students would be to start looking for Nurse Tech job in an area of interest as soon as your school load will allow. My unit manager explained it like this to me: Once your hired as an employee of the hospital, it costs the hospital about 15,000.-20,000. to orient and train you. If they made the correct decision in their hiring decision, they are looking for a future nurse for their unit. The hospital has invested alot of money in you, they want to keep you there. If there isn't an opening in your unit, look for one in another unit. It is hard to finish school and work, but it has been worth it in the end. As of right now, I am the only student in our graduating class that has a job. I start as a "Senior Nurse Tech" until I recieve my sit pass, then I become a graduate nurse until I pass NCLEX. I start my RN pay the day I start orientation, even though I have a Sr Nurse Tech title. The hospital even offered to pay for my NCLEX fees. (I declined since they are included in our tuition)

Good Luck to you all. Hopefully these "hiring" issues will be over sooner rather than later.

I graduate April 23 from the Lakeland campus and I have had a job lined up for 4 weeks (formally). I start orientation May 10th. I got a job as a Nurse tech at a local hospital in the Mental Health Unit in December and my manager offered me their only FT days position open after working there for 2 months. My best advise for any students would be to start looking for Nurse Tech job in an area of interest as soon as your school load will allow. My unit manager explained it like this to me: Once your hired as an employee of the hospital, it costs the hospital about 15,000.-20,000. to orient and train you. If they made the correct decision in their hiring decision, they are looking for a future nurse for their unit. The hospital has invested alot of money in you, they want to keep you there. If there isn't an opening in your unit, look for one in another unit. It is hard to finish school and work, but it has been worth it in the end. As of right now, I am the only student in our graduating class that has a job. I start as a "Senior Nurse Tech" until I recieve my sit pass, then I become a graduate nurse until I pass NCLEX. I start my RN pay the day I start orientation, even though I have a Sr Nurse Tech title. The hospital even offered to pay for my NCLEX fees. (I declined since they are included in our tuition)

Good Luck to you all. Hopefully these "hiring" issues will be over sooner rather than later.

Congratulations!!

That is a really good thing to hear that you have a job lined up. Often I tell my friends to stay away from Keiser because I find the school to be too expensive and unaccredited. but I am definitely convinced that it is starting to get a very nice reputation, and people are getting jobs out of it. So I can see that it is a good school!

I agree, getting a nurse tech job at a hospital does help. And I can see that hospitals love nursing students because they are future nurses to be hired. I was in the same boat, I got hired at the hospital where I worked as a nurse tech soon after getting my license. That is a great thing to recommend to other nursing students, is to get a job like that before you graduate from nursing school, and then it becomes an easy transition once you get that license!

Also, With the federal government takeover of the student loan business, for-profit schools like Keiser will not be eligible to participate so you will have a hard time finding money to pay for Keiser.

Thanks for the input:)

oh I actually worked with a keiser new grad last night in PICU!!

she had been working there for 8 months. and eventhough she tried to help me, she ended up messing up my bed with blood:devil: but that could of happened to anybody. I was so busy that I just put a sheet on top of it, and told the dayshift "sorry".

It was such a busy night, 3 patients in PICU- therefore, I just did the best job I could.