need advice/opinions on where to relocate!

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Hi all =)

I think the last time I posted anything on allnurses, I was still applying to nursing school. Now I am proud to say that I am more than 1/2 way through my program (and cannot WAIT to be finally working). I graduate in August and will hopefully take and pass the NCLEX in the fall.

I have known for a while that I want to relocate to somewhere new when I graduate. I have lived in MA for my entire life and I am so anxious to travel. I'm hoping to work for a year or two in another state and gain some experience so that I can become a travel nurse. I have nothing holding me back, no boyfriend, family is healthy, etc. so distance is not an issue.

Does anyone have any thoughts on an exciting place to live/work for a new nurse?? Right now my only plan is to apply anywhere and see where I end up...

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Specializes in Med Surg, Home Health.

Adventure-friendly places I've heard new grads having luck getting jobs: 1) Idaho 2) Montana 3) Alaska 4) Texas 5) Colorado 6) rural New England. It was almost never easy, even so. Keep applying but most of all KEEP NETWORKING! Call those HR reps to express interest, research and pre-reheorifice answers to common interview questions, contact managers, go on road trips if you have the $$. Best of luck!

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The Dakotas, too. Some of those new drilling towns have a huge influx of workers with high risk for injury, and the local hospitals are eager to hire. I believe SD (or maybe it's ND?) has a BSN requirement.

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I have been contacted by recruiters for Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming! List your resume on Monster or career builder and you will get emails from out of state recruiters!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU/Trauma/Emergency.

North Carolina has plenty of new grad positions open, Atlanta, Florida-Miami, Texas-Dallas, Washington-Seattle, Colorado-Denver, Missouri,

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Specializes in Med Surg, Home Health.

Seattle? Maybe if you just look at the number of new grad positions, but if you compare that to the number of new grads the area produces every year the numbers may or may not look so hot. But rural Washington? Now we're talkin'!

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I'm in Texas, and just since 2014 there are obvious trends in available jobs. It's getting harder and harder to find something without experience of at least one year. I'd estimate 95% or more of the jobs want a minimum of one year experience, if not more. And in the border towns of Texas, the hospitals that used to offer bonuses, are no longer having trouble finding applicants who will work without a bonus. All one has to do is search for jobs on google once a week to see the direction things are heading.

Times are changing, while there are still jobs in Texas for new grads right now, the number of jobs for new grads are less and less every day.

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Thank you everyone!!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I believe SD (or maybe it's ND?) has a BSN requirement.
Not anymore. The BSN requirement had to be repealed many years ago.

Back in 1987 the ND BON enacted a law mandating that all RNs in the state be educated at the BSN level or higher. This law was repealed in 2003 because the state had dire trouble attracting RNs to live and work there all those years.

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I say go where ever you can get a job! May not be that "exciting" place you are expecting, but it will be a first start in your journey for some where other than where you are now. Good luck

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Specializes in L&D.

We just relocated to the Raleigh area in NC and are LOVING it so far! I would highly recommend a level 1 trauma center that is a teaching facility. Not only with you get some of the more acute cases, you will learn how to work directly with attending and resident docs. My first hospital was a teaching hospital and I LOVED wrking with the residents. I am missing it now as the facility I am at now, is not a teaching facility.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Look at the compact states: one license good in several states. I am in NC and I can work in many:

List of Nurse License Compact States - NurseTogether

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