amazed107

Thanks!

My BLS cert will expire the end of this month. I need to renew it. Does anyone know of any good/legit online BLS renewal course?

I am out here in Los Angeles, CA. Nothing going on here. I graduated June 2010

Seriously. Everyone is asking me why it is so hard for me to find a job when there is a nursing shortage.

Well atleast I know I am not alone. It seems like its the same all over the place. I'm thinking about volunteering at a hospital since I cannot get a job. This seems like the best bet for now..

Wow. What have you been doing in the mean time? A lot of places that I am applying to require or prefer experience which is something I dont have. I mean, how do they expect us to get experience if we cannot even get a job?! I recently applied to UCLA for their new grad program and they said that they had 1000+ applicants and would take the first 300 into consideration and the rest would be on a waiting list. There are only so many hospitals to apply to and think about how many nursing schools there are that have graduated the same time. With every semester, a new batch of RNs are coming out from each school. There will just be more and more applicants each time a new grad program opens up at a facility.

I am a new grad also. I graduated in June 2010. I feel like I am the only one in my class that does not have a job yet. I've applied to 15+ facilities and no response. This is really discouraging... It's gonna be 6 months that I have been out of school. I dont want facilities to think that I have been lazy bcuz it took so long to get a job. Most new grad programs say "graduated within 12 months"....its been 6 months. Oh no!