Nursing Student Working At A Hospital

Editorial Team / Admin · Jul 13, 2016

Well, you'll have established an employee record and have access to internal job postings, but that's about it. As a new grad, you'll be on level footing experience wise with all other new grad applicants- any experience other than as a licensed nurse isn't going to be counted as experience.

JayPerez930 · Jul 13, 2016

Ah I understand. Thank you for replying!

brillohead, ADN, RN · Jul 13, 2016

In my area, I would have been hired in a hospital right out of school if I'd had "healthcare experience". Even if that experience was as an aide or a tech rather than a nurse.

If you can, I'd try to get hired in as an aide on a hospital unit (any unit that interests you) -- you'll be able to build a rapport with the unit manager and your coworkers and be much more likely to get hired in there as a new grad over a stranger as a new grad.

All of my unit's aides who graduated with their ADN this spring got hired into my unit.

Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2016

In may help in some cases, but not in all. I've worked with several CNAs who were not able to secure a nursing position (at the hospital they worked at) after graduating. Of the three popping into my mind, they were way above average in their work and all very well-liked. Since the hospital only hired about six new graduates a year, they still weren't competitive enough to get selected.

Guest957596 · Jul 13, 2016

Hello To All Nurses!
This will be my first topic as a new member.
Currently I am in nursing school at Kingsborough Community College and half way through the curriculum. I am currently working at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY as a tech aide for the MRI department while attending school. What I wanted to know is if it will be easier to attain a job as an RN at the hospital I am working at or any hospital, given that ill have experience in a hospital already.

Check at your hospital if you aren't sure. Here in Jacksonville, FL, you are almost certain to be hired. Kinda like being a legacy for college. UF Health will hire an ASN who is a current employee, but not externally as they only hire BSNs.

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Trauma Columnist · Jul 13, 2016

Moved to general nursing student

Rocknurse, MSN, APRN, NP · Jul 13, 2016

I have known CNAs who were nursing students get hired after they graduate because they took the opportunity to make a good impression while they were working as a CNA. They were well liked and respected and as soon as they graduated they were hired right into the ICU. If you make a similarly good impression you might experience the same thing.

JayPerez930 · Jul 13, 2016

This was kind of what I was thinking. Although I doubt I'd get hired as an ICU nurse right off the bat, but at least as a staff RN at my facility.

CanadianAbroad · Jul 14, 2016

If you have taken Med Surg, you could get hired in the hospital as a Nurse Tech. At that point, you are more than likely going to end up getting a job offer post graduation.

Good luck!

ErinRN2012 · Jul 14, 2016

I knew I wanted to work at our local hospital when I graduated and passed boards, so I got hired as an aide just after I started my prereqs. I worked my tail off and made myself a valuable, well liked member of the healthcare team, and when I passed boards they gave me a position on my home floor without an interview. The rest is history.

Erythropoiesis · Jul 16, 2016

In my area, everyone is so desperate to hire more nurses that nobody blinks an eye at whether the applicant worked in healthcare or not. I imagine that this is a regional thing. I work in a totally unrelated field right now making $12 per hour, stress free, and I am perfectly fine with that. I start my program in the fall and I will keep my job unless some dream job comes along that offers me more than I'm making now...and I sincerely doubt that will happen.