Perioperative RPN

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Hello,

I am a perioperative RPN in Ontario. I did my RPN program from September 2011-December 2012. I knew from the get go that I wanted to work in the operating room. I did not get a regular nursing job in between programs. I started the perioperative course in September 2013, and it ended in June 2014. I have been frantically searching for a job... any job... ever since and have gotten nothing. Not an interview, not a reply... nothing. Just wondering if there's anything I am doing wrong...or if there is another province I would be better off in?

Thank for your help!

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Are you apply ing to everything? or just perioperative jobs? The market is really tough right now. Are you looking all over Ontario? Many new grads have had to relocate to get work. The other provinces aren't much better. I would n't go to the expense of moving to another province unless you had a job first. This pretty much the reality for nursing jobs right now.Being out of school for two years and having not owrked will make it tough.

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Specializes in med-surg, OR.

Sometimes its better to just get into the hospital and try an internal transfer. Are there any RPN positions in another department where you completed your OR clinical? Also a good base in bedside nursing is still helpful in the OR. It helps with interviewing patients pre-op, (which you may be doing in smaller centres).

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I have been having the same problem here in Ontario. I graduated dec 2013 and I have had TWO people call for an interview and both were for casual positions and I have applied (I kid you not) to probably well over 300 job postings.

While I wait to finally get a job I have been taking extra nursing courses (breastfeeding, extra assessment courses etc).

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