New Grad RN Programs Northern CA Help

[RowRN_8855]

Hi, I will be graduating in May 2021 and am starting my hunt for new grad RN programs in NorCal. I am struggling to navigate the websites of the various hospitals just to find out if they even have new grad programs. Does anyone have any advice? I am looking around Sacramento and the Bay Area. I know the big 4 in Sacramento are UC Davis, Sutter, Kaiser, and Dignity Health. I know Kaiser doesn't hire new grads and I found UCD's requirements, but does anyone have advice on how to find the dates for Sutter, Dignity, and the Bay Area hospitals? Or do I just have to spend hours scanning websites (LOL)? Thanks!

[vince_reads, BSN, LVN, RN]

Around March or April, Doctors Medical Center in Modesto will start opening job positions for the RN New Grad program. They do this twice a year: March-April application for July cohort, and October-November application for February cohort. They're a big hospital, imagine they have 4 ICU departments (SICU, CCU, CVICU, Neuro ICU), 1 PCU and quite a few Med-Surg departments (Tele, Ortho, Respi, Neuro Tele, Onco Tele, and so on).

In Modesto alone, the city has 3 major hospitals: DMC, Memorial Medical Center or MMC (under Sutter Health), and Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center. You might wanna see MMC as well because Sutter has Clinical Nurse Resident (CNR) programs too. Modesto has also one sub-acute hospital, it's called Central Valley Specialty Hospital. Google them!

In San Joaquin County:

St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, Lodi Memorial Hospital in Lodi, Dameron Hospital in Stockton, Doctors Hospital of Manteca in Manteca, Sutter Tracy Community Hospital in Tracy. These have new grad programs too. 

I applied at UCD before as well and other hospitals in Sac or even the entire central valley. After working 2.5 years at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, now I'm working at Kaiser. Just apply and apply until you get it! Everywhere is hiring new grads due to the pandemic.

Good luck on your application! You're gonna get this!