Looking for a job in Orange County, CA

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Dear Nurses

After a few months of searching, applying, sending out resumes; I gave up. They all require one year experience.

Last week I took on an LVN job, but the actual work was Medical assistant. Therefore, this job won't help at all with my resume for the future. By the way, They paid me 13.00/hr, 6 hrs/day, 5 days/week ( all of my time at work, I take BP and at the end of the day, I input this information in the computer . (it's totally an MA job)

Please guide me how to get a real LVN job. I don't mind to start out as a volunteer first. I don't mind if the pay is very low, as long as I can get the experience

Whoever can help me to get through this, my first pay check will be my appreciation gift to you :), seriously

desperate LVN in Orange County

Ps - I will drive an hour if there's something for me

Specializes in ER, Trauma, Med-Surg/Tele, LTC.

IMO I think you're pretty lucky for even getting that job given that you're a new LVN grad in southern California, especially the OC/LA area. The market is killer! I know because I'm in that boat too… Job hunting is my full-time job right now. I know you want "LVN experience," but at the very least you're getting health care experience. And it's paid. I know plenty of other new grad LVNs that would kill for that opportunity, I being one. In fact, if you really don't want the job or find something else, send that job my way. Seriously.

Anywho, jealousy aside, I'll try to be helpful =P If your job title at the facility is LVN then market it that way on your resume! Just because you feel like you’re doing MA work doesn’t mean it has to be presented that way. It's all about how you present yourself. For example, you can already identify yourself as having “outpatient clinical experience as an LVN” whose duties include taking appropriate vital signs and reporting significant clinical findings to provider, assisting provider in examination/procedure rooms as needed, answering telephone calls in a professional manner and referring patient problems to provider, and documenting pertinent patient information in the medical record following patient visits. I just pulled a couple lines from the job description of an outpatient LVN job posting, so you can’t really say it’s not LVN work as well.

Honestly, I think you should just stick with it for a year to get your “one year experience” and then sprucing up your resume with better descriptions. After all, are any of the duties I listed untrue concerning your job right now? Again, I pulled those duties from an LVN job posting. There’s no harm in continuing to look but, as you’re clearly aware, there’s not much out there for us new grads! Just try to look at your situation in a positive light. If you still can’t see how good you have it compared to a lot of other new grads, you should just give me or them your job =P

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