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thanks for the advice guys. This really gave me all the advice i needed to hear.

hey guys, Do any of the rest of you guys cross train. IS their a program for it? Do you just float to a unit and pick up tons of extra shifts? Do you actually approach the managers on other floors that you're floated to? I know some nurses that work all over the place (not float pool nurses, just nurses that float all over), i know other nurses that stay on their floor. the reason i ask is because I got my first nursing job on a dialysis unit and i don't want to forget all my med-surgical skills i learned in school. I am also an EMT with ACLS and PALS and also feel like i am using none of this stuff at my new job. Will I forever be a "dialysis" nurse and never be able to work on another unit if i don't start trying to float to med-surge. I love renal science but i think it will get a little old to set up the same machine 25 times a day for next thirty years.

thanks, That is exactly how I feel. I feel so bad for people who don't have jobs. Really just trying to spread some good news. Not insult anyone.

I wasn't trying to make anyone mad. I just wanted to give people an optimistic perspective. I hope that a little optimism didn't make anyone mad.

wow, didn't expect to get that many posts that quickly. I know I was lucky and consider myself very fortunate. i just wanted to point out that allnurses has way more negative/sad narratives than positive ones. thanks for your feedback.

why is all nurses so negative and inaccurate? I checked this website before I ever went to nursing school and read all kinds of post about how 85% people are rejected from nursing school and it is impossible to get in unless "you know someone." I didn't find this true at all. Seriously, i had a 3.37 GPA overall in college and still managed to get into accelerated nursing school. Also, while in nursing school i read about people who had applied to "over 300 jobs" and had yet to even get an interview. When i applied to nursing school i applied to ten place and got 6 interviews and had my pick of jobs( this was in 2010). I only know a few people in my nursing class who are truly struggling to find work. Now I work in area that has very few young educated people and has many elderly people who need medical care. So we have a good amount of jobs. But i truly believe that the majority of people who post on here were the unlucky ones who are strugling with their career. Just an FYI to all the nursing students out there: study hard, remember common since rules, and don't worry too much about what people say on allnurses.com.

yeah dude, You want to give us an update on where you live(region) and how the job is working out....? It is so crazy when I get on all nurse i hear crazy stories about the job market and how bad it is. The majority of the people i meet in person, however, have nothing but good things to tell me. It was nice to hear a story about someone actually landing on here.

Sorry, sorry about the negative post. Not saying that current LVNs are not good nurses. The ones that were lucky enough to land jobs are good at what they do, however, you and i both know how sour the current job market is. becoming an LVN/ADN/BSN 5 years ago was a great idea....now not so much. BTW: just want to clarify i went to pre nsg for two years and nsg school for one year. wanted to make sure i didn't mislead anyone.

Don't do it, Listen i know that nursing seems like the cool thing to do currently but it is a total waste to go for an LVN right now. BSNs are really struggling to find work, ADNs are relying on a "connections" (whatever that means), and LVNs.....well LVNs make really good waiters and waitresses. If you think nursing is 100% where you want be then go for it. If you are looking for easy job that will last you into retirement, however, look elsewhere. I have been in nsg school for the last three years and have literally watched the job market disolve before my eyes. I'm only 21 so i have a little time to wait for the job market to turn around but it sound like you might not have that benefit. Best of luck.

gerrib83, thanks for the quick reply. I don't think i have any health problems that will give me much of a problem. I was dxed with asthma when I was 2 but my primary care doctor later denounced that diagnoses and made an amendment to my medical record stating that I was a healthy adult. I currently run a few half marathons a year and have never had to use a MDI or SVN treatments. If a diagnosis I got from an overactive medical resident when I was two years old comes back to haunt me I will lose all faith in the U.S. A.F. Im going to call a medical recruiter in the morning to get an idea about how long its gonna take before I can go work for the A.F. or what my chances are of obtaining a commission. Thanks PS anyone else on here a graduate nurse who is directly applying to A.F. And if so what are your credentials......GPA, past exp in medicine, past exp in A.F. I just want to get a rough estimate of my chances.

hey guys, I'm graduating from an accelerated BSN nursing program in May 2011 and thinking about applying to be an AF nurse. How competitive is the program for new grad positions. I don't want to go through the long application process just to get rejected because a bajilliion more experienced Nurses already applied. I need to speculate my odds a little before I do that much work (interview, apply, security, physical) Here is my personal background: BS degree in bio-chem 3.3, pre-nursing and ems classes at local community college 40 credits at 3.97, current nursing school GPA 3.92 (over 1/3 complete and those were the HArd classes), 5 years EMT experience, 2 years professional EMT experience averaging 35 pt contacts a week, EMT BLS training co-director at small volunteer EMS agency,23 years old. So what do you guys think, should I go call my nursing recruiter or should I apply in the civilian world and try to get some experience first? thanks in advance!!

That's bad news. I was hoping they would let me know one way or the other so that I could make a decision regarding my application at other schools. I'm starting to stalk the post workers. lol

Has anyone been rejected yet? I Interviewed in November and have yet to hear back. When I looked back through my notes from the interview I saw that the interviewer told me they would let me know before the end of January. When I look through the blog I see that people who interviewed a month after me have been accepted. If they process the applications in the order they were received I should have already been accepted or rejected.....Right? Did i get lost in the shuffle? Anyways..... For those of you have been accepted: How long have you been given to accept the admissions offer? what is the deposit? Thanks a lot guys! S.P.L