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One or two weeks ago, I did the video interview. A couple days later, a hiring staff emailed me to do on-site interview for my top choice specialty. I'm waiting for him to coordinate a interview day/time for late May.

There is a waiting period after I graduate to process my application for the NCLEX, so I can't take the NCLEX exam until July/August 2018. I thought the interim period would be a good time to work as a CNA. Thanks for the advice - I won't work beneath me and just focus on looking for RN opportunities at Harborview and other hospitals. I'm still in Virginia, but will be back in WA by June. Once I get back, I'll go over to Harborview to scope it out. I'd like to get some shadowing opportunities at my primary choice and a few alternatives choices. With the way Harborview sets up their online application, I can't go back and apply to more units. I just applied to the cardiac ICU at UW Medical Center. I'll try to apply to more places.

Is it still tough finding a job in WA if I went to school out of state? I got a BA degree in accounting and worked in eye care for 5 years (ophthalmic technician) in WA before moving to Virginia for nursing school. I'm about to graduate with a MSN with hundreds of hours of 1-on-1 preceptorship experience in a cardiac ICU. I had a great time and I love all the nurses on that unit. They would gladly hire me, but I decided to move back to WA and be closer to family after I graduate May 2018 (next month). My goal: continue working in a cardiac ICU (or at the very least work with cardiac patients) while pursuing research. There was a thread from 2012 saying it is very hard to get a new nurse position in WA for out of state students. I've applied to Harborview nurse residency in December 2017, but haven't heard back and my application status online has always said "in review". I've emailed and left messages but haven't heard back. I'm thinking they really don't even want to consider out of state students. I want to work at harborview because they are a academic hospital and will have plenty of research opportunities. Should I try to get hired onto their cardiac ICU as a CNA, work as a CNA for a few months and then try to apply for a nurse residency? Any other thoughts?