Looking for work in metro Atlanta

CraigB-RN, MSN, RN · Aug 20, 2007

Call them and ask them. Be persistant, and proffesional and keep you mind and options open at other hospitals.

Chloe'sinNYNow · Aug 20, 2007

Call them and ask them. Be persistant, and proffesional and keep you mind and options open at other hospitals.

Thanks Craig. I intend to do just that!!

bbcewalters, NP · Aug 29, 2007

Chole,

I have read several of your posts and you sound a little upset about your opportunities. What I would suggest is to go online line to ALL local hospitals and start applying to ALL positions that appear to be new grad oriented. I would look at Emory, Crawford Long, St. Joe's, Northside, Grady, Children's, everywhere. It is important for you to go on MANY interviews. I can tell you feel like you waited too long, but I just know you will find something. Aren't you an Emory Grad.....Call your mentor at school (Corrine, Sally, Kelly, ect.), see if they can't at least pull some strings and get you an interview at Emory.....I know they hire new grads...Even if you have to work med/surg for awhile and then transfer. Their is a nurse named GARY on the 7th floor (GI floor) at Emory, who is great with newbies.....

HTH and Good Luck

Bobbi

Chloe'sinNYNow · Aug 29, 2007

Chole,
I have read several of your posts and you sound a little upset about your opportunities. What I would suggest is to go online line to ALL local hospitals and start applying to ALL positions that appear to be new grad oriented. I would look at Emory, Crawford Long, St. Joe's, Northside, Grady, Children's, everywhere. It is important for you to go on MANY interviews. I can tell you feel like you waited too long, but I just know you will find something. Aren't you an Emory Grad.....Call your mentor at school (Corrine, Sally, Kelly, ect.), see if they can't at least pull some strings and get you an interview at Emory.....I know they hire new grads...Even if you have to work med/surg for awhile and then transfer. Their is a nurse named GARY on the 7th floor (GI floor) at Emory, who is great with newbies.....
HTH and Good Luck
Bobbi

Bobbi, you speak very well. And you are very sweet. Thank you, but I may just have to leave this town. I didn't get my foot in the door when I was still working towards graduation and now doors are getting slammed on me.

I actually had an interview w/a very mean recruiter at Emory E'side today who let me know how much she disrespects Emory for teaching students to focus more on critical thinking and preparing for NCLex rather than getting on the floors and working as techs in their senior semester.

In other words, my Emory education didn't mean diddly to this old nurse recruiter. She told me I"d have to work as a CNA to pay my dues and get invited there even though I have an Emory BSN and recently my RN too. As a 2nd degree. As an older non-traditional student. So much for world experience. I don't have enough clinical experience.

sigh.

deeDawntee, RN · Aug 29, 2007

That nurse recruiter is clearly an idiot!! A new grad of your caliber being forced to work as a CNA is ludicrous!! I'd tell them to kiss me a** and move on to bigger and better things!! Obviously the recruiter has some kind of Freudian education envy going on and was using your interview as an opportunity to rev up her own pathetic depleted ego.

I didn't know you graduated from Emory!! Pretty darned impressive!!

You go girl! Take it as one of those experiences that show how pathetic people can be! Obviously she has no people skills or an ability to spot talent. How smart do nurse recruiters need to be anyway?? Probably not very.... hehe

:uhoh3: :rolleyes: :eek: its just a test of the national idiots society....

Chloe'sinNYNow · Aug 29, 2007

That nurse recruiter is clearly an idiot!! A new grad of your caliber being forced to work as a CNA is ludicrous!! I'd tell them to kiss me a** and move on to bigger and better things!! Obviously the recruiter has some kind of Freudian education envy going on and was using your interview as an opportunity to rev up her own pathetic depleted ego.
I didn't know you graduated from Emory!! Pretty darned impressive!!
You go girl! Take it as one of those experiences that show how pathetic people can be! Obviously she has no people skills or an ability to spot talent. How smart do nurse recruiters need to be anyway?? Probably not very.... hehe
its just a test of the national idiots society....

Ah D,

what would I do without you at my back?

:nurse: :kiss :specs: :flowersfo:heartbeat:yeah::icon_hug::thankya:

CraigB-RN, MSN, RN · Aug 29, 2007

Bobbi, you speak very well. And you are very sweet. Thank you, but I may just have to leave this town. I didn't get my foot in the door when I was still working towards graduation and now doors are getting slammed on me.
I actually had an interview w/a very mean recruiter at Emory E'side today who let me know how much she disrespects Emory for teaching students to focus more on critical thinking and preparing for NCLex rather than getting on the floors and working as techs in their senior semester.
In other words, my Emory education didn't mean diddly to this old nurse recruiter. She told me I"d have to work as a CNA to pay my dues and get invited there even though I have an Emory BSN and recently my RN too. As a 2nd degree. As an older non-traditional student. So much for world experience. I don't have enough clinical experience.
sigh.

Prior to returning to clinical nursing, I spent 7 years as a DON. One of my responsibilities was overseaing nurse reqruiting. HAving seen way to many new grads come accross my desk, I know were this requruter is comming from. Now as to her interpersonal skills, She might have been the same one I talked to as an experienced nurse who told me they didn't have any positions, this is after I had already talked to the ER and was told they had more holes in the sched than they knew what to do with.

Now as to the critical thinking skills vs experience. Unfortunatly critical hinking isn't realy something you can teach in a classroom. THe classroom is the perfect place to lay down the foundation and get the base knowledge that is required to be able to think that way. The same way that nursing diagnosis and care plans help reach a way of thinking.

Over the years, I've had new grads from Johns Hopkins, BU, Standfordand other big name programs sit across from me looking for a job. To a nurse recruiter and DON, I couldn't care less what school you graduated from. It doesn't make a difference. It's how the person presented themselves that made a difference. Now I don't know you or how you present yourself in an interview, but here is what always impressed me in the new grads I interviewed.

THe one that I remember most is a young gal who stated that she had all this knowlege, but didnt' know at this stage of her career what was important or not. She was looking for a place that would help guide her, so she could turn this knowlege into practical skills, to make her the best nurse possible, and then she layede it on thick about all the good things she had heard about out internship program, etc. She identified up from that she didn't have much exerience prior to sitting in front of me. DIdn't present as being cocky or anything. Even though she was late in applying, and had never worked in any of our system hospitals, she looked to me like someone who was worth our time and money. Yes I said worth our time and money. It is a lot of time and expense. Not once had she mentioned what school she graduated from. Now 2 years later she's turned into one of the best nurses I know.

Don't blame anyone at the program you came from, It's called adult educatoin, You're supposed to be learning to think for yourself. Take this as a learning experience. Don't ever depend on anyone else. Do YOUR homework, know everything you can about the program and the hospital your applying for. Talk to people. Be very carefull about bonuses and things like that, and read the fine print on your contract BEFORE you sign it. You might be commiting yourslef to a longer time frame than you realize and it can be very expensive to get out of.

And first and formast take everything you read here with a grain of salt. Although there is some wonderfull information here, placed by some people who realy care and know what they are talking about, there is also lots of information that is placed based on emotional responses to issuies that they know nothing about. This is especially true of anything that is going to affect your livelyhood and your career. Although your frustrated welcome to nursing, despite all the bad, there are some wonderfull things about the profession. I started back in '76 and have never regreted it.