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I have found a position! Sorry I haven’t updated but after not getting an interview for months I had 3 job offers in a week! I am now working a MedSurg RN position in a hospital that will cross train me to ER. I’m super thankful for all the advice on here and it really helped landing my 1st RN job? I’ve been with a great preceptor for a about a month now.

I’m not on the Minnesota border but your area sounds similar to my situation. Minnesota in general is Saturated with nurses. I close to going south?

Yeah it’s a hard line between trying to get your skills and abilities across and sounding like your a “know it all” even if I just mentioned I’m good at EMRs, LOL and helped nurses that aren’t fond of technology.

Minnesota and my area has 4 nursing schools within 10 minutes of the hospital. A lot of competition but yes I’m open to all shifts floors ect. I wish there was people recruiting and excited to get new RNs but it’s really not the case here. In clinical I had nurse managers go to HR and tell them they would love me on their floor but still nothing. I helped veteran nurses learn new tricks on Epic. I can do and interpret EKGs 12 lead, labs, vents, bipap, radiology and the go to for hard Caths in the UC. Rural critical care hospitals give high autonomy to their LPNs because of lack of resources so, triage and medication education gets thrown sometimes to the LPNs. I have been making individual resumes for each position but using the key words in their posting is a great idea! Thank you!

I’ve found that the new grad preceptor program is great but it does have limitations to its usefulness in some cases. New nurses were complaining that it goes over things 3-6 months after they were doing the skills on the floor everyday. That said I was a LPN before an RN and have been doing skills that bachelor prepared nurses weren’t.

I would absolutely travel but I agree I would need at least a year in a hospital specialty to feel secure in traveling as a new nurse. But if it comes to it I might have to to get experience. I am in a position to travel so it is tempting.

I have worked in nursing homes before and was a CNA for about 10 years. I did long term acute respiratory unit during Covid. I’m not against it but was really looking at hospitals. I’ve been told too that experience in a SNF doesn’t advance your resume as far as getting into acute care. But maybe… Yes I am open to clinic and would love to work in public health but there isn’t openings. It’s weird not one for clinic within the health system in our area.

I agree and since I didn’t work for the health system before graduation they don’t wNt to pay new hire bonuses on top of the cost of training new grads. I think they are super short from what I hear and nurses are getting crazy amounts of overtime. while I’m over here like, “pick me, burn me out! Nights, weekends no problem”?

I’m in a fairly large city and hospital system. The current urgent care I’m part of is a rural hospital about 45 minutes from my house. The hospital that is closer to me is a 487 bed facility and owns just about every clinic and critical access hospital in a 1 hour radius.

Thank you! I have talked to my nurse manager and currently there is no open RN positions I. The UC right now. I wish I could get an interview to explain my current skills and everything I’m willing to do and learn.

Hi! I’m a new grad RN with an associate degree. I am having the worst time finding a job and am practically in tears every day that I get one of those “we went with other candidates” emails. I’m starting to lose hope and would like anyone's opinion of how to proceed. I graduated top of my class and have a couple years experience as an LPN. Eight months of that was working in a long term Covid unit. I literally was going through school and working with the high stress of Covid in a nursing home and urgent care but now because I’m a “new” RN I have zero skills to bring to the table according to every nurse hiring manager. I’ve filled out every new grad program application in my area. Applied at the current hospital I work at as a urgent care LPN and not even an interview. I’m older new nurse at 40 and feel like I made a mistake. I wanted to be a nurse because I love it. I loved every part of clinicals and working with patients. I passed my boards on the 1st try and have recommendations from instructors and current nurse manager. Joined some volunteer opportunities with the Red Cross. Signed up to get certified in ACLS, TNCC, ect. I’m starting a BSN program in the fall but I am really doubting myself. Any advise would be great.