Love working in an area that needs nurses

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So, I now have two jobs two months post grad: Med/Surg the local hospital and PRN home health. The first job interview went like this: "You've worked here as an aid so we saved you a spot as an RN. Just let us know when you're ready." Second interview was like this: "We got your application today. Here are the days we need help. Which can I put you down for?" It's easier getting a job living in an area where this "nursing shortage" is an actual thing! ;-)

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Must be nice!! :cheeky:

Congrats on your job offers.

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Specializes in EDUCATION;HOMECARE;MATERNAL-CHILD; PSYCH.

Congrats! Many new grads are still searching for ANY nursing job since months after graduation.

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Is this backwoods area?

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

What agency would hire a new grad for home health?

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My state doesn't allow new grad RNs to work in home health. But, congrats to you!!

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What agency would hire a new grad for home health?

I graduated in 1992....when there actually WAS a nursing shortage. In the last few weeks before graduation, we had recruiters come to speak with us from various healthcare organizations, trying to convince us to come and work for them....can you even imagine that now? Some of them were from home health agencies. Those were the days.....

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Specializes in CVICU.

OP's location is set to somewhere in Oklahoma. I live in Oklahoma and can confirm that there's a nursing shortage here. We just had orientation for our clinicals this semester and the chief of nursing operations told us, "Right now, we're hiring for 55 RNs. By the time y'all graduate, I suspect that number will be more like 100. Apply before you even graduate and we'll give as many interviews as we have spots for!" This was at a smallish hospital in my town. In places like Tulsa, new grad RNs don't have trouble getting jobs in hospitals, not even specialty areas like ICUs/L&D/Oncology.

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Where I live in PA hopefully it stays like that when I graduate. I am always seeing nursing openings in hospitals that always say in caps, new grads welcome

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Specializes in Telemetry.

I am a new grad and have a job waiting for me for when I pass the nclex. It's on the floor I precepted in during my last semester and my interview pretty much went the same! They hired 6 from my class, just for our floor and I know of 5 others that got jobs on other floors in the same hospital. It is nice to not have to worry about applying and interviewing for multiple jobs after you take the most stressful test in your life. (even though I do feel more stressed before my nclex because I have so much riding on a passing result.) The "shortage" is real in some areas and it is nice to be a new grad in those areas!

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Congrats :)

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Specializes in LTC.

This is what a friend told me ; "There are jobs for grads practically everywhere, as long as you don't have the attitude that you're going to "dictate" to the employer what you are and are not going to do. You gotta pay your dues, even if it's LTC to start. The real world is not an episode of Grey's Anatomy or ER."

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