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Thanks for all of your replys about my attempting to go back into nursing after 6 years. I went to a job fair the other day and have been depressed ever since. I spoke with several recruiters and they were less than helpful. They had a very hard time getting past the "six years". They would let me go right to med/surg with a short part-time orientation but for mother/baby they want a full-time 3 month orientation. With 5 children aged 6 and younger and a husband who works 12 hours a day and travels alot there is no way that I can do 3 months full-time. My dreams of OB are dying a slow death!! They did not really care that I am very current in breastfeeding, faithfully read my JOGNN, have been doing legal consulting on birth injury cases for 5 years for my husband ( he is an attorney), and am a Certified Infant Massage Instructor. Not to mention having a lot of "life" experience with birthing and newborns. They were only focused on the dreaded 6 years. I have tried to stay somewhat current as much as possible with the literature, but they did not care. So, I guess that my nursing career will not be resumed until my youngest (who is 8 months old) is in pre-school.

Thanks for letting me rant. I actually feel better now.

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Specializes in OR,ER,med/surg,SCU.

Sorry you're having such a time of getting back in, wish I could give some wonderful advice to get you going in it. Never know when the window of opportunity will open, wish you the best when it does.

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what about child birth ed? it could be a back door into a job on mother baby for you. we've hired several of our child birth ed. people on our floor as prn's. some had not done bedside nursing for a good length of time. you have a great back ground. we also let people orient part time. sorry to say i am in pa.

i feel bad for you. there's only a shortage of the "right kind of nurses" you know. the ones hospitals really want. young and healthy- but experienced, single and not dating or having any social life, willing to work all sorts of hours and weekends and holidays w/o complaints for rotten salaries, will stay for an organization for awhile, but not long enough to accrue costly vac and sick-time bene's, in other words, the stepford nurse. i think administrators really believed pt barnum when he said there's a sucker born every minute. thank god the birth rate for fools has been rapidly declining in the past few years. there may be something out there for you. i hope so. it just disgusts me that a facility won't take a chance on you but is probably whining about how short of nursing staff they are.

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I meant to reply to you, but somehow I hit the wrong button and it went under it's own topic. Please read "keep trying".

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Could they take you in nursery or postpartum?

(if they have those separate units, that is....)

What about becoming a Doula, to get some more "hands-on" experience with labor? Don't know if that would help or not... (although with 5 kids, how much more hands-on can you get?) ;)

Good luck...hopefully they come to their senses! :)

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You guys are fantastic, you know? Thanks for all the support. How does one become a doula? I have looked into becoming a lactation specialist, but it takes a LONG time teaching breastfeeding (bfing your own children does not count) to be able to sit for the exam. I am trying to work my way in by teaching Infant Massage to the staff at some hospitals around here. Maybe then I can get to the nurse manager and see if she will take a chance on me. The recruiters made it seem like I would not be a "desirable" nurse to the managers because I was looking for less than 20hrs a week. But if they are so short, don't you think they would want whatever they could get? I am hoping that the recruiters are just a lot more picky than the managers. But, maybe I am just delusional!!

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