PACNWNURSING

Do peds!!! A set schedule, no weekends, less stressful and peds experience will get you into a hospitals peds unit then your experience at a LTC. But you will be in immunization hell :)

Just curious do the nurse educators have any opinion on this, and on all the private for profit nursing programs springing up across the country?

They are many things that have to be addressed and fixed about the nursing profession. Transforming nursing has to start with me as an individual nurse. Nothing will change unless I start with myself and make positive changes. Relying on someone el...

A few things to consider, how much is this for profit school going to charge you? Is the school accredited? Can your credits from this school transfer to another college if you decide to get your BSN. Do not be so desperate to enter a nursing prog...

In the ER that I recently started working in, the majority of nurses work variable shifts on both days and nights meaning, there is no set time you work for example the traditional 7-7 nights or 7-7 days. You will work 5a-5p one shift and 13-01 anot...

That is exactly what we do, and I do not know how anyone would enjoy doing variable shifts for a long period of time. I have another life outside of nursing.

Having just completed a nurse new grad residency and ER orientation I can say they cannot implement a transition program fast enough. I had a general one day nurse orientation, a one day a week, 9 week residency program, both were useless. A 6 week...

I am in the same position, I wanted to work either ER or OR, but my preference would have been the operating room. I was really glad I landed a job in the ED and was looking forward to starting my career. I attended a new grad nurse residency and h...

I just completed my ER Orientation, ER nursing is so different from floor nursing that I do not think you need Med/Surg experience first. The issue I have is that I only had a 6 week orientation with a preceptor and a one day general nursing orienta...

I am sad to see you have not received any response to this post. I have just completed a new graduate nurse residency program which was very inadequate. 9 weeks in length with just 6 shifts with a clinical coach, 4 hours of classroom time each week...

Why did you leave your 31.00hr job?

This has been asked many times already, do a search of previous posts, it took me a year to find my first job, it will happen eventually. :)

Just do what most want to be nurses do to avoid those aspects of adult care, head to NICU, just kidding... With the current and future market the LTC maybe your only choice upon graduation. Really it is all about attitude, this is the reality of n...

Expect a huge pay cut from California, Intermountain New grad pay is 21.80 an hour. Cost of living is not as cheap as people mention. I came from Washington State and I am made more money as an LPN there and I am an RN now... Great place to live but...

The American nursing association to have a reality check and really know what the needs are for nurses. Stop saying there is a nursing shortage Admit and really deal with nurse burnout and turnover. Transition all ADN programs to BSN programs pai...

I am an ER RN and would like to get my medic, but there is no RN to Medic program here I would have to take the full course. But right now I think it is more important to get my BSN.

I agree the upfront initial cost is more expensive to train a new grad, but this still does not explain why experienced nurses can't find work, I say it could possibly be the salaries.

The reason they are not hiring experienced nurses is salary, they have many new grads they can pay alot less. I used to live in Vancouver and had to move to Utah to find my first RN job, it still took me a year to finally land a job.

I would say seek other employment in Texas complete your training and land a job as an RN in Texas, Texas is one of the few states who are still hiring RNs.

I am sorry to hear our neighbors to the north are having the same difficulties with finding work as here in the US

I was wondering when US nurse graduates would start looking to Canada for work. What is the pay for a new graduate in Canada?

I would first try to land a job doing something else while you wait for your first nursing job. There is no magic formula to landing the first RN job.

I am also from Vancouver Washington in the Portland Oregon area. I was going to start at 30/hr if I was able to land a job. I am quite in shock at the RN salaries here. I anticipate salaries stalling here and everywhere with the huge amount of unem...

Stay in Cali if you can, No jobs too many grads in the Portland area, I lived in Vancouver in the Portland area. I had to move to Utah to finally land a job. 700 new grad nurses applied to the new grad residency program at Legacy health, that tell...

I would not consider nursing there is no promise of work, once you graduate and or licensed you will still have to go into a transition or residency program and the compitetion is very difficult to get into those, your Nursing school GPA will be a hi...