I'm in the bay area, and let me tell you I would start looking out of state pronto. I wised up after 6 months of looking/working for free in a RN residency in the bay area. Not to mention, many other...
I was offered one of those positions a month ago but ended up turning it down for another job, but I was impressed with the training offered. It seems they are very supportive of new grads and have...
Being a new nurse, I have not gotten to the point yet of being burned out by nursing. But I definitely see that a large portion of the nurses (more experienced and not) feel the same way as what I am...
I don't have the answers for you, but I must say that it is smart for you to be looking into this. I only wish I would have been better prepared for the job shortage for RNs before I graduated this...
JenPen2332 replied to nlhnurse1982's topic in General Nursing
This exact thing happened to me at another job before nursing. A coworker left and then returned a year later, and was started at much higher than the rest of us who had even more experience. I was...
Yay! Congrats. I'm not sure if you joined the ranks of the large group of us new grads who have been so desperate to get a job this past 6 months or more and posting on this website about it, but I...
No, not at all. I don't see it getting better personally. I did however take a job many states away, but in the bar area it is still very bad and just getting worse as the December class has just...
This is very encouraging. Thanks for your input. I agree that it is substantial how much more training a nurse needs after spending so many years in school to be able to function in the role of an...
"There are two groups of immigrants. Those that come here because they can make way more then they can at home, and send it all back out of the country to their families back home, until they have...
I completely relate! I personally have this fear of pushing a med into the wrong port, being as most of the ICU patients have a gazillion IV lines all tangled up everywhere... My preceptor just looks...
It seems to me that (depending on where you are living) they just want experience. I could have a BSN, all the classes you can want, and they all just want the bottom line, experience. But, it can't...