Moving to Another State Right After Nursing School

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Hello,

I am still a long way away from completing the program, still doing my pre-reqs, but I wanted to ask about moving out of state right after completing nursing school. I live in Nevada right but I would really like to move as soon as I'm done with school. Oregon and California are the two states I am most interested in moving to.

I'd love for any nurses to share their experiences moving to one or both of these states. Was it difficult getting licensed there? Was the pay better or worse there, than you expected? Would you recommend getting experience before moving or do you think you have just as much of a chance going without experience?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

CA is a tough job market for new grad RNs, and even some experienced nurses. If you choose CA, definitely get experience first.

If you choose to move immediately after school without getting experience, save yourself some money and skip getting a license in NV- apply directly to the state you want to move to for licensure by examination.

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I am from CA and moved to NY for nursing school and moved back to CA to try and find a job as anew grad and it was very hard! I would stay in Nevada-you can likely easily get a job where you do clinicals. Oregon might be easier but CA license is like $400 and no guarantee of a job

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