Mezcalero

Mezcalero

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  1. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you Lunah, for your support and confidence during an intreminabley bleak period in my life. Though nothing is carved in stone yet , I have a "feeling" that this will be the one that will work...

  2. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just wanted to let y'all know that: 1. I got a call last week from a recruiter at a busy hospital outside Dallas. She asked me all the obligatory questions, "why do you want to be a nurse, " how do...

  3. Good advice from Head Nurse

    Mezcalero replied to cmonkey's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ I have to tell you I've been in a rather discouraging mind-set recently, and that has regretfully spilled over into some of my threads/rants. To be honest, I'm actually pretty ashamed of myself for...

  4. Second Day off New Grad Orientation

    Mezcalero replied to Kathyz's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Awesome Kathy! I am totally happy for you...

  5. How Do You Feel About Nursing Schools Still Milking the "Nursing Shortage" Lie?

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well first off, I have to admit that this thread is a culmination of my frustration, and the reasoned responses thus far are a good counterbalance to that. I guess I get a little bemused when I see...

  6. How Do You Feel About Nursing Schools Still Milking the "Nursing Shortage" Lie?

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I will admit that I'm adamant about a med-surg, high-pressure environment--because I KNOW that when it comes time to search for career advancement after working an LTC job, the first thing the next...

  7. How Do You Feel About Nursing Schools Still Milking the "Nursing Shortage" Lie?

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well the fact that I am applying around he country (Texas, NC, SC, Florida, and other states) other than my home state of NY has me wondering how people such as yourselves are getting multiple job...

  8. Good advice from Head Nurse

    Mezcalero replied to cmonkey's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Unfortunately, this person is quite out of touch with reality. If I could say that a year from now I'd be emptying bedpans, that would be an optimistic outlook. New (and "old" new grads such as...

  9. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey guys, Just wanted to let you know I can't send PM's yet, so if you don't hear from me, that's why. I'm not trying to be rude or ungrateful; for all the kindness y'all have shown me--it's just the...

  10. Getting seriously depressed

    Mezcalero replied to rnffemtguy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    For what it's worth, I'm looking at grad nurse programs rather than the typical med-surg positions. Now that we are no longer in a state of shock about our relatively unusual situations, it's time to...

  11. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks everyone. Relocation IS an option and am looking to Texas, Arizona, and Alaska. I'll miss my son like h*ll, but if dad comes back as an employable person instead of the loser I am now, it'll...

  12. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ Yes, all good suggestions. Money is tight for the BSN, I had expected to pay my way through a bachelor's curriculum with money from --you guessed it-- a J.O.B. I'm looking now to sign on as a...

  13. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ Thank you :) PS: Lunah, thanks for the PM--I'm going to contact

  14. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for the kind and thoughtful responses, it helps to keep my thoughts out of some very dark places. I'll employ the suggestions you've given

  15. Jobless and Frustrated

    Mezcalero replied to YVSUOMAL's topic in Nursing Career

    Well the way I see it, it works like this: 1. New hospitals are built without the proper demographic/economic studies being conducted, and the hospitals find too many beds unoccupied to generate a...

  16. Jobless and Frustrated

    Mezcalero replied to YVSUOMAL's topic in Nursing Career

    Yes, I am considering getting licensed in Texas. My concern is that after I move down there, it will be more of "we don't hire graduate nurses because we are short-sighted and don't feel it's worth...

  17. Jobless and Frustrated

    Mezcalero replied to YVSUOMAL's topic in Nursing Career

    Oh they're all "hiring." But that just means putting fake job listings on their boards so it it looks like they're addressing that lie known as the "nursing shortage." Sadly, we were all duped by the...

  18. New Grad Job Blues

    Mezcalero replied to Tranquillove's topic in Nursing Career

    Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Another month or two of nothing and I'll end up living on the street. Oh hey, at least I'm an RN! People will look up to me when I beg for

  19. I am considering a career change to nursing

    Mezcalero replied to RNCEN's topic in Nursing Career

    Well I would say from the start, if you want a career where someone will actually hire a new graduate, forget about nursing. I got my license in Sept 2008, good grades, some academic awards, success...

  20. NO NURSING JOBS!!!

    Mezcalero replied to JaqRN's topic in Nursing Career

    I think there are opportunities for experienced nurses. But as you and I have found, when it comes to graduate nurses, the "nursing shortage" is a big