NICU with no experience

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Which hospitals hire new grads in the NICU with no previous experience. I will be graduating with a BSN in May and I really want to work in the NICU or PICU but I have no experience in either.

Congrats on graduating soon! My first NICU job was at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. An amazing unit with wonderful preceptors and a 1 year nurse residency program for new grads.

My advice is to search out large children's hospitals with level III/IV NICUs. You may have to start in Level 2, which is actually great experience and I highly recommend it, but can move up to level III.

Good luck with your job search!

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https://jobs.intermountainhealthcare.org/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-224403&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any

Here is the link if you want to apply. The offer is for new grads into a Level IV NICU. It will only be posted another week or so.

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

NNP2018-- Did you have your nursing school preceptorship in the NICU or in pediatrics/maternity? I applied to the UVA program and selected newborn ICU as my 1st choice. Like the OP, I have no experience in NICU/ped (did my preceptorship in adult primary care) but I really want to work in the NICU! I had three rotations in the NICU during my maternity rotation and loved every minute of it. I'm also coming out of CA (graduated with a direct-entry MSN in Dec 2014). Does UVA prefer VA nurses?

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Dear new grad,

Hope you are enjoying your first experiences in nursing! If you're still wanting to pursue NICU with no previous experience, I'll give some advice that I wish someone had given to me when I first started in NICU. The first few weeks is simply about learning the language of the NICU. Get to know all the terms, it can take a while but your first few weeks will be sooooo much easier if you do!

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Specializes in NICU.
https://jobs.intermountainhealthcare.org/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-224403&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any

Here is the link if you want to apply. The offer is for new grads into a Level IV NICU. It will only be posted another week or so.

Thanks for sharing and I'm so glad I came across this thread! Does your hospital hire ASN? The NICU job posted now says ADN required and BSN preferred - just wondered if they actually considered ASNs. I was hired into a nicu but it since I didn't pass the boards I could not fully except the job, but I'm about to take them again! Thanks.

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University of Utah hospital also had a new grad program in their nicu, at least 10 years ago when I was in it

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Thanks for sharing and I'm so glad I came across this thread! Does your hospital hire ASN? The NICU job posted now says ADN required and BSN preferred - just wondered if they actually considered ASNs. I was hired into a nicu but it since I didn't pass the boards I could not fully except the job, but I'm about to take them again! Thanks.

Hey, they take ADN grads all the time. Good luck! They hire new grads into NICU each every few months it seems. They prefer a NICU preceptorship, but not always

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Specializes in NICU.

Providence Alaska Medical center in Anchorage :-) I was just hired as a new grad no experience.

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If you don't mind me asking, which hospitals in NJ are you referring to?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

My friend was hired as a new grad in the NICU at Northside Hospital in Atlanta.

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Apply regardless. Keep applying. Be relentless. Apply to more than one place. If you don't get in at first don't despair!! If you keep going for it and as you gain experience elsewhere if you so choose, it will eventually happen if its meant to be. Good luck!

a magical year of med surg is never a bad thing. I had no NICU experience but worked a little over a year of med surg and got the job finally.

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