New graduate nurse, new job, HELP

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I'm a new graduate nurse and am moving to Louisiana which has a poor health care quality. I'm excited because I got into the specialty I wanted (pediatric ED). Many students in my nursing school chose to stay in the area because the hospital quality is great (CT and MA). I have no desire to stay right now and really just want to experience something new. However, I am worried that if I ever chose to move back to MA I would have trouble getting a job at a hospital because the hospital quality isn't as great in LA, has anyone experienced an issue getting a nursing job based on previous hospital experience? I don't want to hinder my education as a new nurse or future opportunities.

Specializes in Adult and pediatric emergency and critical care.

Caveat: This statement is not about Louisiana in particular, in fact it could be made about many hospitals in many communities across the US and the world.

I'd say just keep in mind that just because a system does something a certain way doesn't necessarily mean it is the best. This can be from small rural hospitals to large academic centers who seem to have an approach of doing this the '[insert large center] way'.

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

There have been a lot of threads lately from students/new grads who express fear that accepting the "wrong job" out of school will somehow hinder their future career goals.

Where is this coming from? Are instructors promoting this particular fear? No one has ever held against me a previous place of employment. The longer and more varied (and transferable) the experience, the better.

Students/new grads: it doesn't matter where your first job is in terms of future employment. Look for a place that: 1. Will hire you 2. Will orient you 3. Will hopefully be supportive and not a toxic environment 4. Won't require a huge pain of a commute.

Wherever it is you will get valuable experience and learn valuable skills, which can only help you get your next job.

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Specializes in Peds, MS, DIDD, Corrections, HH, LTC, School Nurse.
19 hours ago, OldDude said:

Oh yea, of course you'll need to learn to eat fried gator tail, shrimp gumbo, boudin, and raw oysters, and become a New Orleans Saints fan or they'll kick you out of the state.

And suck out Crawdad brains! ?

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Specializes in NICU/Mother-Baby/Peds/Mgmt.
On 5/15/2019 at 1:39 PM, Wuzzie said:

Learn to love these and yes you gotta suck da head.

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Ummm....pinch da tail too!

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