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This morning a recruiter followed up my job searching. She told me that I did have experience; the major problem was those hospitals don't like my short stay in last employment. If I told them because of "not good fit" they would question me "how to prove that you will stay with us long?". Getting a reference letter from my former manager sounds a good idea, but I don't think my former manager will help me. Now I will do a part time in a small LTC/Rehab which should be stable. I will also try one shift a week on med/surg floor for a staffing company, see if I can work it out in this way.

I've got an offer in a kind of LTC/rehab facility yesterday. I know it is always easy to find a job in LTC but the question is how to go back to hospital in the future if I cannot find one now--they don't count LTL experience in hospital and they would question why I left hospital and went to LTC instead? And I wonder how long would the HR keeps resumes and relevant information in their database? Since I have applied all nearby hospitals and I am thinking about reapply in the future.

Thank you medsurgrnco. I left my first job because I wanted to work in hospital, no unpleasant issue. I will work better in next "interview" if I could get one.--cross my fingers.

Thanks everyone, I agree probably my subconscious stress/depression might sensed by those managers who interviewed me; and like the saying "the chance to be hired getting less if you don't have a job", I worry the longer it take me to look for a job the less chance to have employed. I do have passion as a med/surg nurse, simply because I like varieties; at this time I am really not that picky. But it seems only med/surg job I can apply for, they don't give you a thought if you don't have "relevant experience". The hospitals are numbered in the town, I applied all and don't get hired (I do have learned experience on how to improve interview skills), now I wonder where the next place I can just send my application? I'm thinking about jobs in nursing home. Maybe bad economy plays its role too?? I was told a reference can be great help but I don't have network in this town because I relocated here for only six month. In the mean time I am going to school, just need to do something. By the way, I like Eriksoln's explanation "things did not go as well as I would have liked and I am looking to begin with a clean slate in a new environment." When pressed about what didnt go well, say the unit was just not a good fit, you found it difficult to perform "at the level I expect of myself". Thank you everyone again:)

Hi everyone, any advice would be appreciated. It happened two months ago. After 6 months working in a rehab center, I found a job in Med/Surg unit in a hospital Apr, 2008. To make the story short, I had to resigned after 6 months. In September My boss called me to her office and threatened to terminate me if I "don't make progress" because there was a pt complained that I forced him to take medicine (I didn't remember forced him to take medicine, I told him "it's up to you". But, there were only I and the patient, no witness) then my boss mentioned two more mistakes I had in Jun/July My blood draw was contaminated; (that was my first blood draw and I never had any problem after then on) I didn't give 4am's antibiotics because I though I should get the trough result; (again, my first mistake and never had some mistake again from then on) I had bad luck one month later. It became extremely busy after 8pm--I suddenly had one discharge, 1 new admission from ER (and just after I took report the pt was send to me already, which was too fast), plus another 3. And among these three pts, one complain migraine headache ask for pain med, unluckily I found there was none in pixel, it was every 2 hours PRN meds but there was no stock! so I faxed order to pharmacy; and another pt, a very young girl also ask for pain meds at this time, but she had her q 3 hours demerol at 7pm, so I explained to her. she didn't listen; thus couple of times, later even my charge nurse said "I'm not going to her room". The next day, My boss let me go (offered me to resign) because I had two patient complaints, and "It cannot always happen" Since my boss warn me to leave I had started to look for job. I applied whatever job listed online, from hospitals to agencies, with no luck, got 6 interviews and failed 6. It seems those managers don't trust me because I left my job too soon--with only six months hospital experience. Reason to resign I came up with were from "schedule conflict" to "not fit". I cannot convince them to hire me. And where is my next application?? Now I lost my confidence and became so depressed! Am employable??????? What's wrong with me?