New grads in L&D?

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Just wondering if new RN grads are hired in L&D? Im graduating soon and would like some incite. Thank you :)

Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

And THAT is an excellent example of why I chide students who come here and post, asking for for nurse managers to answer their list of questions for their management class where they're supposed to interview a manager. I always tell them to go out and actually FIND a nurse manager to interview. Buy them a cup of coffee and sit down with them! It's an AWESOME networking opportunity!

Congratulations!

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And THAT is an excellent example of why I chide students who come here and post, asking for for nurse managers to answer their list of questions for their management class where they're supposed to interview a manager. I always tell them to go out and actually FIND a nurse manager to interview. Buy them a cup of coffee and sit down with them! It's an AWESOME networking opportunity!

Congratulations!

Thank you very much! I just got my nursing license, I'm very excited :-)

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I am a new grad (just got my license Saturday!) and I will be starting out in L & D! I knew from my first clinical rotation there that that's where I wanted to be! I did my last 152 hours of preceptorship on the unit and was offered a job right after graduation! I'm so excited and nervous to start!

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I am a new grad (just got my license Saturday!) and I will be starting out in L & D! I knew from my first clinical rotation there that that's where I wanted to be! I did my last 152 hours of preceptorship on the unit and was offered a job right after graduation! I'm so excited and nervous to start!

Me too, where will you be working? ;-)

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I'll be at Duncan regional! In our department we work all areas ( nursery, l & d and postpartum) so I get to do all of it which I'm really excited about! Where will you be??

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Yes, it is possible, I am a new grad starting in Gyn/OB at Hopkins this summer. I never thought in a 1000 years I would wind up even liking L&D but I was hooked after my first clinical rotation and knew after finishing my practicum in L&D at a community hospital here in Baltimore. Just be sure to rock you clinical rotation, basically it was like a 5 week job interview for me because that was a huge factor in networking for a job. Also the hospital where I work is kind of an exception to the standard rules when hiring new grads in L&D because they require you to work as a tech (in postpartum and as the scrub tech in the OR) in L&D for six months before you can start as a nurse. That turned a lot of my classmates off from applying to Hopkins but I feel that the skills I learned will help me step in and succeed on the unit way faster than starting with no experience since L&D has a really steep learning curve.

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I just got hired as a new grad in L&D I get to do a 12 week residency. I was told it was hard to get into L&D as a new grad, what helped me was doing my preceptorship for my leadership class with the clinical manager ;-)

Wow! This is the specialty that I want to work in. Yay, there's hope for new grads!! Congrats on landing a job so soon.

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Wow! This is the specialty that I want to work in. Yay, there's hope for new grads!! Congrats on landing a job so soon.

Thank you...if you have an opportunity to do a preceptorship try and get in with a nurse manager in L& D

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