ItalianPrimaDonna

mmc51264 I am in your same situation. My ADN program ran their nursing program much like yours. We had clinical 3 days a week or more, as well, as went to lectures and labs. I was basically in school/Clinicals Monday-Friday all day long and also had 12 hour clinical days. I have be fortunate to do all the skills taught in lab out in clinicals, at least more than once each, and some I've lost count. I'm very comfortable in a hospital setting with patients and confident skill wise. I finished school in September and took boards in October and still currently pursuing work. 140 applications later, my app status' to every position at every hospital I applied to has put that i have 'insufficient' experience. I have had 2 phone calls from two agencies saying I needed experience and then went to an interview at a hospital, just to be told I'm inexperienced. I actually have an interview for a doc office today and tomorrow one at a nursing home. It is frustrating to spend so much time putting in applications after applications with no success. I'm going to have to keep my fingers crossed.

I'm from Greenville, SC. I have applied to over 130 jobs. Have had 1 interview over a month ago, 2 phone calls telling me I need more experience, and 2 interviews planned this week. I checked my app status' on web sites and for the local hospitals around here and they ALL say insufficient experience. I don't know what else to do. I need a job.

Thank you for giving me some hope. I have continued to put in more and more applications since my last post. I'm really hoping I get called soon.

I am a new grad. Graduated in September and took my boards in early early October. I'm from SC and nurses are a dime a dozen... there is no demand for them here, especially in my area. They want nurses with more than a year and I have even seen two-five years of experience. Hospitals are having a blast picking who they want and its not new grads. I'm sure they put my resume and app right to the side when they get see it, because I'm a new grad. I have applied to 40 jobs, so far, and not one interview. I would definitely move somewhere that really needed nurses, if those places still existed somewhere. Problem is, I'm a single mom of a 5yo son. I'm considering going back to bakeries to do cake decorating while I look for a RN job, just to have some cash flow. Those student loans will want that money soon. Its a sad case, and I loved clinicals and practicum. I'm just going to have to keep trying to get in somewhere.

I am currently in the GTC Nursing Program. I am going for RN. I had 54 points. My GPA was a 3.9. My head is spinning and I rarely have me time. I have 1 more year left in the program and I'm already starting to count down.