Dean Uguan

Excellent! The jobs are plentiful, no doubt about it!

The NCLEX can be taken anywhere, there is no need to transfer anything, as it's a national exam. Some Las Vegas new grads were finding it difficult to get their preferred testing dates, so they booked exams in California or Arizona. Las Vegas has one testing site and Southern California has dozens. Other Las Vegas new grads were able to get Las Vegas testing by checking regularly for availability.

So, in conclusion, at least three of the people that were active in the early throws of this thread have now graduated, of those two have passed the NCLEX, one is already working and one starts this week. It was a fun ride.

The CSN website is searchable for classes, just pretend you're searching for classes for registration purposes and there will be listings of classes with their times and dates. Typically clinicals will be a week or two less than the entire length of the course. Mental Health is a full semester course and taken second semester along with Med/Surg I. For third semester the student will spend eight weeks in maternal newborn nursing and the other eight weeks in pediatric nursing. Med-Surg II is critical care and clinical placements will vary from hospital to hospital. Students might be rotated through intensive care, intermediate care, emergency and med/surg units. Students might spend the entire clinical experience in one unit, it depends on what each hospital is able to offer. For preceptorship, the student will be assigned to work with one nurse for ten 12-hour shifts. The units can include ED, Med/Surg, IMC, ICU, Peds, PICU, Nursery, NICU, L&D , Ante Partum, and Post Partum.

For the NCLEX?

Thank you for sharing your story. I also became a CNA in 2015 and am now in my final semester of nursing school.

You might try joining the Face Book group "Las Vegas Nurses Rock!" and ask the question there.

Agreed. I've worked agency CNA shifts at different LTACH facilities. I was constantly amazed how the nurses handled the demanding load of the most most complex patient population imaginable. I've always imagined myself working as a new grad in an emergency department, but the challenge of working LTACH seems like an adrenaline rush unmatched. And at the facilities I've worked, the teamwork and camaraderie was unmatched.

Possibly the College of Southern Nevada Workforce Development group will have what you are looking for or something similar.

Add in severe mental illness and substance use and you've named a good number of the reasons that make Valley, UMC, Sunrise and maybe Desert Springs interesting places to work!

Very true, this happened to me last night in the same city as the OP (and probably the same agency).

For what it's worth: UMC just posted an internal employee only posting for new grad med-surg. Because it is internal, the posting itself made not be useful for this conversation, but the three year commitment they're asking for seems notable. It asks for three years at UMC with at least one year on the unit that does the initial hiring. Maybe I'm naive, but three years seems a tad excessive. I believe UHS and HCA typically ask for two years.

This. Every VA is unique. Consider looking at the SAIL reports for each facility. There you will ratings for things life RN turnover rates, employee satisfaction and the like.

UMC just posted an ICU training program open to new grads that had preceptorships in critical care (and other RNs with experience).

Yesterday Mountain View Hospital posted new grad positions. I don't have any personal knowledge of the hospital, but others have told me they hold it in high regard.