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That seems odd, robinson. I have never seen an employer use hours of work to determine your experience. They usually just ask how long you were employed. To nurseeducate, sometimes people are forced to take jobs that are less desirable or jobs that they like but are in undesirable areas, just to pay the bills and get experience.

I agree, to be sure. Would never trash a prior place of employment publically or to a future employer.

The only other hospital in the city itself is Community General. That and the ones I listed are pretty much most of the hospitals in Syracuse, if not all of them!

People keep talking about how 1 year of experience will open up the job market to you in a huge way. I often do see job postings that ask for 1 year RN experience or 1 year acute care experience. But my question is, how strict is that requirement truly? What if you you had 10 months of experience, 11 months? It wouldn't truly be 1 year. But if you were full time for those 11 months, you would still have worked more and gained more experience than someone who just was part-time for a full 1 year or even longer than that. What are your thoughts on this? Use this thread to talk about how strict employers are when screening people who have "1 year RN experience."

TB is not as scary as it seems, truly. To get an active infection, it requires chronic exposure to somebody or to multiple infected people in very crowded areas, like in a refugee camp. Multiple exposures are required. Even if you didn't wear a mask when caring for a TB patient for one whole day, you have pretty much no chance of being infected with TB. You would have to care for that patient day after day after day, for weeks.

Yeah, decided to take the full time job. Will do BSN part time on the side.

Getting an MSN without experience is odd.

Already passed boards. I would try to look for a job in the area I want to live in, closer to my family. I would be happy with LTC, if I can find it.

I can't even count how many times I've witnessed RNs, LPNs, and CNAs all writing in vital signs that they didn't take. Often they just use the previous set of vital signs and maybe change a few numbers.

The thing is I really hate the areas where the jobs are. One is very rural, about an hour from a small city and about 5 hours from anywhere substantial. I won't know anybody there. :/

A combination of reasons. I decided late in the year to go to nursing school and an ADN program was the only location still admitting people in my area. Otherwise I would have gone into a BSN program. I also had a lot of pre-reqs to take that the ADN program let me take concurrently in the nursing program. I also originally planned to work while working on my BSN but to put it simply, I might change my mind. I didn't lose any time by going this route, if that's what you're hinting at. As in, if I go full time for my BSN now, I will finish in the same time it would have taken if I went traditional BSN without the ADN. Does that answer your question?

Okay, but I do already have a couple of job offers from hospitals. I am thinking of forgoing them in order to continue my BSN full time. Part of that is because I don't like the areas of the facilities.

Most RN to BSN programs don't have a clinical component. How would places be able to offer an online RN to BSN program if there were clinicals? The exception are those that have like a 45 hour volunteer component.

I just graduated from an ADN program in May and passed boards and I am enrolled in an RN BSN program. I want to go full time and just get it over with. But on the other hand, I am 24 years old and have no real work history. So my dilemma is if I should enroll part time for the BSN while working or if I should enroll full time for my BSN while either not working or working part time (if anyone even hires new grads part time). What do you guys think? Is it seen as "lazy" if you get your BSN immediately after your ADN on a full time basis? There's also the issue of skills declining because I'm not working and BSN programs don't have you practice skills. So I'm afraid of being considered a "stale grad" if I don't find a job right away. Any input from former ADN grads? What do you think?

All interesting views. I know orientation times differ from facility to facility, and especially are prolonged in specialty areas for new grads, but what would you estimate is the minimum time required to see a return on the investment in general med-surg? As well, I also have heard that facilities receive substantial grants to hire and train new grads. Can anyone confirm this? If it is true, it might not cost facilities anything to train a new grad.