NewGrad RN trying to move to Ca

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vch1102

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I originally from Miami and prices are about the same for rent and living expenses so that's nothing new to me unfortunately. But I do appreciate you repling to my post and giving insight.

vch1102

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This is an option I've considered since I currently live in Miami but hope to move out. Maybe after some experience it will get easier (or so I hope) thanks for your advice.

vch1102

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Thanks all for your advice. I already passed my NCLEX but I have a Hawaiian License, so I am trying to endorse it in California.

Regarding rent and all I have that is set. My bf lives there and would be handling that. Plus I am from Miami and very familiar with overpriced living expenses. Luckily thats nothing new to me. Now regarding getting a job that is. I don't have any health care related work experience. Which is why I have also considered getting a non-RN job. Yeah, I spent 4 years of schooling for no reason if I was to do that. But its a start when I don't really know anyone.

I plan to apply at various New Grad Programs but like everyone has previously mentioned I'm sure 20,000 applicants vs me won't be easy. If anyone knows of locations nearby LA that hires new grads please let me know of them. I don't mind commuting nor considering staying outside of the LA area for a bit if it means I have a job.

Thanks again for everyones insight.

As a for Miami resident, CA col is not at all comparable to the 305. Just saying.

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Oh and the whole staying outside the area the thing. I live in the IE and we have a bunch of new grad RNs who commute 2 hours from LA to work as CNAs because they are trying to use that as a stepping stone to get an RN job. I work with an RN who drives 2 1/2 hours from San Diego because she was that desperate to get her first hospital job after having to do home health for 18 months.

Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

So when I said move to the rural part of any state to get a job, I guess I should have been more specific. When I lived in southern california and got my first new grad job in ICU it was tough in 2009. I had what they wanted. They had these qualifications:

You had to have previous medical experience (I was an LVN)

BSN preferred (I'd already enrolled in a BSN program, so I was able to put it in progress

You had to be local, as in your address had to reside with either San Bernardino or Riverside County.

You couldn't have been out of nursing school more than 6 months (I had passed my boards 10 days after I graduated)

This what just a requirement at the hospital I landed a job at. I'm not sure what other hospitals were listing in their "special criteria." When they have 100s of applicants for each job, they have to add extra stuff or they will never get through the stack.

It's rough, very rough in California to land a job. I'm not going to lie, as a new grad with no prior medical experience, and it sounds like no medical job connections, you will very likely not find a job. I would at least take a job in Florida and then when you get endorsed for California, likely 6 months will have passed, and then you at least can put some experience on your resume. I doubt anyone will really consider you before 1 to 2 years, but you never know.

Limbic System

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

I live in Northern California and the job environment is much like SoCal. To even get considered for an interview you will need: BSN or MSN, certs (ACLS, PALS, ), and some kind of health care experience (volunteering at your local hospital, CNA work). I recently interviewed at a local hospital that received over 800 applications for just 6 new grad RN positions. You have a higher chance of getting into Harvard with those odds! It's a tough market. A lot of new grads who went to nursing school in CA are leaving CA for another state where there is an actual nursing shortage.

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