MatthewMorgan

This forum is to help encourage, and bring up your peers and support them. It is not a place to degrade, or compare to/make assumptions about someone you dont even know. It is narrow minded of you to think that because someone is a recent graduate and cannot find work within 2 months of hire you are implying that they lack a positive attitude, lazy and are not the ideal "nursing professional". There are many GN's out there, from BSN's to ADN's that are ideal competitive candidates that do not have jobs nationwide. Your assumptions maybe "right on" for some indviduals, but it is unfair to generalize the whole that are unable to find a job. Have you seen the job market? It is extremely competitive, employers can hire the best of the best. So If there are 10 BSN RN's with 4.0 GPAs and have worked within their facility they are going to take those applicants over someone like me. Majority of the medical center is going towards Magnet status meaning that they prefer to hire BSN's. That in itself is already making it harder on ADN's to even be considered for jobs. Another reason why it is so hard for GN's to get jobs is because of the state the economy is in. The older nurses are not retiring, which does not free up many spots. In the past few years, the new graduates were relatively young and were hired with less difficulty than it is now. Now when you look at the overall experience of a unit, it is common to see that there is a small number of experienced RN's >20 years, with a majority are RN's 2-4 years experience. It makes sense for employers to limit GN's coming into their unit, because they are trying to raise the bar on the level of experience nurses in their unit, which in turn makes the job search for a GN tougher. Yes, nursing is a profession, that's the only part that I agree with you from your post. As a nursing colleague we are to support members within our profession, young and experienced. If you are a seasoned, experienced RN its another different ball game out there (one you cannot compare to unexperienced GN's getting a job today). An experience RN can easily get a job out there, with sign on bonuses. No problem. Have a nice day and I hope that you can take this post into consideration.

I've since expanded my search to all over the state, atleast up to Dallas and over to San Antonio. I'll try out those locations you mentioned. As for Conroe I'm not seeing anything on there website.

in my opinion its better than waiting at home with no job, or letting an interview decide who the best nurse would be. instead of hiring only 10 nurse per 6mo they could hire 20 give them a shot see who the keepers are. anything over 8 weeks would start to be an insult, also if you did a great job then you should get some kind of hiring on bonus/ no hard feelings. i would put it around 8 x 40 x 20 = $6400 at the least $3200 because in the long run a lot of people would hold that in the back of there minds, and if another company came around offering greater benefits or what not, they might think back and remember the time they worked those 8 weeks for free. longterm retention rates would fall. you tend to stay with good companies even if they payless or have less benefits, if they treat you with respect, have a good work environment and allow room for growth. in the longterm the money is just not that important.

Ive looked into the LTC's around me in pearland and along 288 but they all wanted exp nurses, they told me to come back when I get exp, "ok I'm going to get exp at a hosp so I can come back and work for ppl who didnt giv me a chance???" wow. I guess I could broaden my search. Thanks for the advice, and i'll indeed check out indeed.com I'm surprised you being an LVN hasn't gotten you an RN job.

I think it's shorter to answer where have you not applied, and thats anything 60 miles from me for the the most part. Ive found 2 clinics today I forgot to look at.

I think they've come up with a way to skirt liability. see link below text for full article Avoiding Liability For Unpaid Interns Law360, New York (June 02, 2010) -- Once the exclusive domain of students, several recent articles suggest that individuals decades removed from the classroom are now vying for unpaid internships to enhance their competitive standing when searching for paid positions at the same time that the Department of Labor is increasing its scrutiny of internships.[1] While the recent press on internships has been helpful and informative, most of these articles have not provided practical advice for avoiding liability. So, what can an employer offering internships do to avoid potential liability? In order to avoid misclassifying interns (which would trigger the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements), it is the Department of Labor’s position that the internship must satisfy the criteria used to assess job training programs (in which case the FLSA’s provisions do not apply). The Supreme Court established these criteria in Walling v. Portland Terminal Co., 330 U.S. 148 (1947) more than a half-century ago in the context of a training program for railroad workers. http://www.omm.com/files/upload/RobertsonLaw360.pdf

After looking for work for 7mo to no avail, I saw the Memorial Herman about not paying interns. I would work for 8 weeks, for free with no problem that would give them enough time to decide if I was worth keeping. So if you know of any Houston hospitals offering this, send me an email.

I've been looking for work for 7mo in the Houston area and would jump on this in a heartbeat, its easy to say don't do this when you have a job with +4yrs exp. Try walking in my shoes every day trying to find a job, it is hard work, I would rather spend my time working/learning for free than wasting my time emailing, calling then going up to hospitals just to find out sorry were looking for experienced nurses. Besides I didn't become a RN for the money, i was working at JSC making the same pay an RN does.