EcliftonRN

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I applied to an ICU position and an ER position at a local hospital on Monday 4-11. I am wondering 2 things: 1) Will they even consider my after viewing my resume, all of my experience has been in home health and hospice; I feel that I have learned alot in those fields that will carry over, and I am a motivated fast learner... but the potential employer has no way to know that. 2) How soon/often should I follow up on the application. I want to become a family nurse practitioner and want to get a different, more acute and inpatient, experience before going back to school. I have been a nurse for a year and a half. Thank you!

I am a new grad RN-BSN and just started my first real nursing job. I live in Ohio and employment was very difficult to find, so now I am working in a long term care facility. I would much rather be getting hospital experience, but I had to take what I can get to start paying my bills and getting experience. After I get some work experience as an RN (6 months to a year) I plan to start applying to some hospital jobs again to see how the response is. I am planning on going back to school and am really leaning toward doing a Family Nurse Practitioner program. My questions are: 1) How many years of work experience as an RN should I accumulate before going back to school. 2) What are the best specialty areas for me to get experience in? 3) How do current FNPs like your jobs?!?! Thanks for taking the time to answer!

I definitely can relate, it took me a good while after graduating to get a call back. I just started my first nursing job in long term care. It isn't where I want to be, but it was basically all I could find. I'm from Ohio and the job market here sucks.

This may seem premature, but I was wondering how long I should stay at my first real nursing job. I want to build a good resume so I can get a nice job down the road. I just started my first nursing job and I am in orientation, but I can tell already it isn't something I will really enjoy and it won't allow me to build very many skills. I am working in long term care and my first night was really boring and the only thing I really did nursing-wise was apply anti-fungal creams, passing medications, and tube feedings. Now, I'm not completely a pessimist, I will probably have good experiences, but I did my preceptorship on a busy hospital floor and this was 180 degrees. The things I honestly don't like about this job are: using little of my nursing skills and BSN knowledge base, over 30 patients to give meds and treatments to which means I don't truly have time to look up all of the meds I don't know... that makes it tough for a new grad, and paper charting. I just think I could get better experience as a new grad in a hospital. Anyway, how long should I wait it out before starting to look for another job? Even if I do wait say, 6 months or even a year, will it look like good experience for a med-surg job at a hospital? Will this help with getting a job? When should I start looking for a better job? This economy is killing me, I couldn't wait around for hospitals to call me so I took this job, I want it to look good on a resume but I'm still wet behind the ears so I need advice. Thanks in advance!