Long Beach Memorial New Grad program

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I am excited to be starting the new grad program and LBMMC on Monday! Has anyone been through the program? Is there any advice?

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Hi! I have an interview with LBMMC in a couple weeks and was wondering how you liked the new grad program there and if you wouldn't mind sharing any advice of your own! Thank you so much!

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I loved it!! I hired into the adult float unit which is where most new grads get hired. It is supportive and a great learning environment. The preceptors on the various floors were great and I really enjoyed my orientation. I only stayed in the float pool until end of March (I started in January). I moved over to the L&D training and just got off orientation this week. Let me know if you have any other questions!

i had a couple of choices and am really glad I went with LBM! I think they are the best choice for a new grad!

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Thank you so much for the info! That is so reassuring to hear. I have another offer at Scripps in San Diego but wanted to check out LBM. What's the starting salary there if you don't mind me asking and is it easy to transition to a speciality from the adult float unit like how you did with L&D? I really appreciate this help!

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Hi BeesMama. I'm wondering why you moved to L&D and how it's going. I work at LBM as well and am in the med surg float and TBH, I'm really not liking it. I'm thinking of switching to L&D for the next training. Any thoughts? Advice?

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I went to nursing school with the goal of becoming an L&D nurse, so when the opportunity presented itself I took it!

if you are interested in OB it might be a good fit. If you you're just not liking Med Surg, it might not be. We are very fast paced, very high acuity and high risk and there is a huge learning curve. It's a specialty like none other. Its also total patient care, you don't have aides. Often you have other RNs around if you need physical help, but otherwise it's complete patient care. Ratios are like ICU because things can turn on a dime and when it goes bad, it goes quick!

We are a tertiary facility, meaning we take the kinds of patients no one else in the area takes (like really sick pregnant people). So it can be really challenging at times.

We circulate c sections as well, which is something most other units don't do. It isn't hard, but it's a lot to learn.

i think if your heart is in it, it is an amazing and rewarding job. But if you are not totally invested, it would probably burn you out faster than you can imagine.

I am being brutally honest because we have had a lot of nurses try it out and we invest so much in training and helping them out for them to just leave because they don't like it or it wasn't what they were expecting.

If you're interested and think you want to see what it's like, our educator is a huge proponent of doing a shadow shift. It's an unpaid shift where you can come and shadow one of the nurses for the day to get an idea of what the day to day is like.

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Hey! I know this post is old, but I am having the hardest time finding information about their New Grad program.Do they offer Rn residency to new grads not coming from Long Beach State? If so, could anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you SO much.

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I believe Long Beach Memorial has a contract with CSULB for students to transition into a nursing role there after graduation if they interview and get the job, but not sure about the specifics.

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