New grads who found jobs? Please give advice!

[nurse441]

Here's a post to all the new grads who found RN jobs this year. Please tell us your success story and how you managed to land a job. Which nursing field is the job in? What made you stand out? Any advice, tips?

[Blackheartednurse]

The worse part about is that when I try to find a job a CNA for home health aide, most facilities are saying they can't allow me work under my license. I tell you nursing was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Good luck.

I agree with you..I was so excited when I got my license but now I'm so dissapointed with my job hunt that I really wonder what the heck I was thininking when I made up my mind to become florence nightingale.

[mzjennx, BSN, RN]

I went to nursing school to become a OB nurse and I knew it was a hard position to get right out of school so I signed up for extra classes and did everything I could out while still busting my ass for grades in the classroom to increase my chance. This all began before the economy when to the crapper, so I am even more grateful I made the choices not to just go through nursing school and graduate. I graduated Cume Laude, am a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, I did 300 extra curricular clinical hours through a separate nursing program in a local OB department, became a certified doula while I was in nursing school, got extra certifications early like ACLS and NRP. My senior project was to create a grant to get money to fund a program called "No Woman Births Alone", I managed to get people to offer a small grant and to manage whatever money was created; but since starting working and this economy it is on hold right now. I did some volunteer work my last semester by writing exam questions for the California Certifying Board for Medical Assistant, I had also been asked to write CEUs for them but I have bot found the time for that yet. I did a Beginning Midwifery class my third semester but did not mention that one in my resume.I have also done a lot of volunteer work in the medical field, and have past experience as a Certified Medical Assistant. I helped create a local doula program; we got a "Meet The Doulas Tea" for all the OB nurses at the hospital I am working at now, at what time I met my now nurse manager and let her know how interest I was in working for her. As nervous as I was during my interview it went really really well. It was touch and go there for awhile but a few weeks before graduation I got offered my dream job,

that is awesome you got your dream job in OB. i want to work in women's health/ob/labor and delivery. i have my NRP i just need to get my ACLS. I want to get my basic fetal monitoring if I could and also become a doula, but im limited to classes/training in Hawaii. I want to get into midwifery as well, but they do not offer classes in Hawaii. I plan to do about 2 to 5 years of med-surg first and hopefully i can go into the OB field. Do you have any suggestions on what else I should do so I can get into OB. I was thinking of volunteering for Planned Parenthood or an organization or go into the community and do teaching on childbirth