5 mo pregnant and still looking for a job

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Hi everyone, I am a new RN graduate from RI, I am 5 months pregnant and still looking for a job, this is my first pregnancy and I don't want to jeopardize it since I am little bit older but that doesn't mean I don't want to work.

Thank God my pregnancy is going so well so far and I will feel pretty good working if I can find a job.

Of course nobody wants to hire a pregnant lady and on top of it no experience except what I got from clinicals.

I will be due on September, I don't want to waste the remaming months just staying home doing nothing. I tried to apply for medical offices, registration secretary at hospital and even apply to volunteer in clinics around my area and I am still waiting.

I really need your advice on this, I am really bored and I don't want to lose what I learned in school.

I am scheduled to get ACLS certification on May, I don't know if it will help with the job search after my pregnancy(interested in ER/OR), but just trying to stay active in learning.

Any suggestions will be really appreciated.

RN Nurse:nurse:.

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Specializes in Mental Health, Medical Research, Periop.

Have you tried an agency? You only have a few months left and a full time job would be training you and by the end of training you would have to go out. I dont think a job will hire a new RN just to train them and then they go on leave. Try home health maybe for an agency or do some volunteering. GOOD LUCK to you!

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I applied and I called every agency in my area, and all of the sudden, they all need at least one year experience, I am so frustrated. One agency owner told me she will have me shadow a nurse with a low pay rate and I agreed just to find out one week later when I called her back that the shadowing program is no longer available at this time and told me you more than welcome to fill up an application for a CNA position. How are you going to feel about that? not that I am degrading CNA's, I was one myself( my previous agency doesn't hire RN's), just the fact of the agency twisting the deal.

Thank you for your response.

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A new grad needs around a year to adjust to the reality of floor nursing and with your condition, managers perceive it's a waste of their time and money. Keep in mind that it takes $80,000 to train one new graduate RN in a hospital.

My suggestion is try working in health clinics like in CVS, Wallgreens or apply to home health agencies.

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even if you got a job now you wouldnt have enough time in to take a leave of absence when you have the baby and most places with more than 50 employess and unionized go by fmla--which means your job wouldnt be saved..try getting a per diem job at a ltc facility they typically take new grads..if not wait until your ready to go to work after baby is born...

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Specializes in ER/ MEDICAL ICU / CCU/OB-GYN /CORRECTION.

"even apply to volunteer in clinics around my area and I am still waiting."

I know where I am hospice is desperate for volunteers. Perhaps this could help keep your skills current, give some reference and could lead to a ongoing placement. Best of luck to you.

Marc

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Specializes in ER.
A new grad needs around a year to adjust to the reality of floor nursing and with your condition, managers perceive it's a waste of their time and money. Keep in mind that it takes $80,000 to train one new graduate RN in a hospital.

My suggestion is try working in health clinics like in CVS, Wallgreens or apply to home health agencies.

I have heard this over and over again...$80,000 to train a nurse!!??? the number seems to get larger every time it's mentioned.

I think most people are luck nowadays to get a month of orientation...How does hiring an extra nurse cost $80,000 for a period of one month (or if you aren't lucky, 1 week orientation???).

Most nurses don't even make that in 1 year.....

Lets not give hospital corporations more ammo and unearned sympathy while pushing hopelessness on our fellow job hunting nurses with hyperboles

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Specializes in Med/Surg Nurse.
I have heard this over and over again...$80,000 to train a nurse!!??? the number seems to get larger every time it's mentioned.

I think most people are luck nowadays to get a month of orientation...How does hiring an extra nurse cost $80,000 for a period of one month (or if you aren't lucky, 1 week orientation???).

Most nurses don't even make that in 1 year.....

Lets not give hospital corporations more ammo and unearned sympathy while pushing hopelessness on our fellow job hunting nurses with hyperboles

My first job at a hospital was 16 week orientation and I had a 1:1 mentor that whole period - I'm sure it cost the facility a pretty penny to pay my wage and not have me taking my own patients for 4 months. I got my first RN hospital job in January 2010 (graduated Dec. 2009). Along with me there were 4 other New Grad RN's - I don't know the exact dolllar amount but I imagine it was definately "an investment" for the hospital to train us new grads.

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Specializes in L&D/Maternity nursing.

I was in the same boat as you. I just had my son in January but became licensed last summer. I went on a handful of interviews and got none. All interviews went really well, and not to toot my own horn, my resume pretty friggen decent for a new grad (took extra classes, got extra certs etc). I know deep in my core that the reason why I never heard back and/or didnt receive the jobs is because I was a combination of being a new grad and pregnant.

But that said, I just started my first job last week-received my offer in March. My son is almost 4 months. So hang in there. Good things come to those who wait. :)

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Honestly it's not worth their while to take you on. Even if all goes 100% perfect with your pregnancy, chances are you will not work till the end, you'll want some time off (doc probably will tell you at least 6 weeks). That's at least 8 weeks average; 2 months. It will NOT be paid.

And what hf you've decide, for doge reason, you don't want to come back right away? Or can't come back?

I say this based on experience. I interviewed when I was 8 months pregnant; they hired me (I was not a new grad). I honestly think they took me b/c I was pregnant, and probably didn't want to deal with the backlash of not hiring me. It wad obvious I was pregnant (although I carried very small). It came out when the "when can you start" conversation began. They convinced me to start a month earlier than I wanted to. My baby was 5 weeks old when i went back. Long story short: it did not work out. I bit off more than I could chew. Emotionally o could not handle being a new mom and a new specialty.

I know it seeks like forever before you'll start otherwise. But my advice is to enjoy your downtime now. Start taking more classes if you're that ambitious:)

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I have heard this over and over again...$80,000 to train a nurse!!??? the number seems to get larger every time it's mentioned.

I think most people are luck nowadays to get a month of orientation...How does hiring an extra nurse cost $80,000 for a period of one month (or if you aren't lucky, 1 week orientation???).

Most nurses don't even make that in 1 year.....

Lets not give hospital corporations more ammo and unearned sympathy while pushing hopelessness on our fellow job hunting nurses with hyperboles

I wasn't making stuff up. I got that exact number from a nurse who holds an upper management position in one of the largest hospital in Southern California.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

It does cost a lot to train a new nurse...you are paying for out of staff days for classes, you are paying the fees for those classes, you are paying someone to be a preceptor on top of their wages (at least at my facility we do), you are paying 2 people to do one persons work, plus benefits, etc.

Anywho...I would wait for a full time job. You are going to have that baby and have to be back to work 6 weeks after since you won't be eligible for FMLA, and going back after 6 weeks sucks. If you can,wait it out. You will have a lot on your plate! Good luck with the baby, they are a blessing!

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