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If you can get in at Quintiles, I'd recommend just starting there. Fantastic upward mobility (supposedly within 2 years, you can move to a clinical research associate position), and the training you'd get there is invaluable. Honestly, a lot of peopl...

Honestly: use your common sense, don't congregate in small or large groups to talk, let it be known that you are very eager to learn and are willing to do any task no matter how mundane, and accept the fact that you'll run into all types of nurse...

Clinical research organizations like PRA International, Quintiles, Parexel, Convance, etc may hire new grads as entry level clinical research associates, but those positions are rare/few and far between and vary depending on your background in a...

Care to share some of these tactics? I'm sure these unemployed new graduates would love to know where these readily available jobs are and how to get them.

Clinical research organizations like PRA International, Quintiles, Parexel, Convance, etc may hire new grads as entry level clinical research associates, but those positions are rare/few and far between and vary depending on your background in addi...

I'm positive that it's not only young nurses that make bad interview mistakes....? If you find these new grads so challenging to interview, or in your words- "arrogant" and "privileged" , change the listing to "experience required". Simple soluti...

I'm a new grad and I'm actually interviewing for a position at St. Lukes this week. It took about 3 days after applying to get the call. I don't remember seeing any openings for NICU or L&D, but I do know that Liberty Hospital hires new grads and...

And why do you think that being a nurse would change any of that?

I don't understand what you mean by this. In order to get to those higher level questions, you must first pass basic level questions. If you kept getting basic level questions wrong, then you would ultimately fail. Getting a higher level question wr...

I completely understand where you are coming from as I was in a similar situation very recently (had a horrible experience in LTC). I don't think that you should give up. I think that you should look for and apply to every nurse residency program wit...

Do your best not to burn any more bridges. I know that some people might be of the opinion that they would have been angry no matter what how you gave your resignation but you just really never know. You might need them as a recommendation one day, y...

As I already posted, a general lack of communication was her problem. As well as her dismissive demeanor. And again, had she simply said, the pharmacy was working on it, there wouldn't have been a problem. Otherwise, one thinks that the patient is s...

I can speak from very recent experience that finding employment as a new grad is, indeed, tough. For me, getting interviews wasn't the hard part. The hard part was beating out the other 5-7 people also interviewing for the position. My sincere well w...

PROS: The program is extremely diverse. My class had so many different personalities and I loved getting to interact with them. Reputation. Having the Sinclair School of Nursing on your resume helps. Great clinical instructors. Great clinical sites. ...

Simply put- use it as fuel, and prove her wrong. It's amazing the things you can accomplish in the face of adversity. I have a previous degree, and was told this in gentler words in my first semester ever in college. I never forgot what she said. By...

It was already an hour and 1/2 late, and a simple, "I ordered it, and pharmacy should have it up asap" OR any communication at all would have been nice. But the "eyeroll'' emoticon was a nice touch.

It wasn't. It was pharmacy calling her to tell her that his antibiotic was ready, hence it being "oh perfect!". Regardless, if that were the case, a quick, "I apologize but there is an emergency in the next room" would have sufficed. My father was a...

YES. My father was in the hospital a couple of months ago. I'm not a fan of this hospital in the first place, but he insists on going there for his doctor. He called the nurse, she came in, and he asked for his antibiotic. As he's explaining why it w...

While this may be true in the hospital you work, I think that claiming that discrimination in the hospital setting is "rare" is a gross generalization. Unless you are hiring people all all around the world, how would you know? Fyi, I can't tell if th...

I agree. Not to mention passing the background check for boards, and getting employment. Honestly, I really don't know how such an arrest would be perceived, but I'd say that the peace of mind of not having to worry about a not so clean record, would...

For the accelerated program I attended, you had to have at least a 2.8 overall undergrad GPA to be considered. I've seen 3.0 for other ABSN programs. Nursing courses would not be considered in this GPA, as presumably, you would not have taken any nur...

I agree with this. Problem solved.

You're in KS?I live in KC and applied for a local residency program. I was told 20 people were interviewing for one position. "Hiring 14 new grads" sounds great on paper, but not so much when there are literally hundreds of new grads applying for the...

Go straight for the BSN. In the current job market, you have to look as competitive as possible, and that would be the person with the higher degree and the most certifications.

Same. When I did my internship, nurses on my floor regularly encouraged interns to delegate to the techs (I was even told one time to, "no offense, stop acting like a tech"). As a senior student, you know the difference between proper delegation, and...