hengleman

I couldn't find any info on here about the waiting list for nurses. I've heard there is a 2 year wait for nurses trying to get into the Navy. Is this true? Are they still offering a sign on bonus to nurses as of 2011?

So I have been trying to get a job as a new grad nurse since I graduated in Dec. 2010. I have already passed my boards and I am ready to get on the floor! I've been to several interviews and have not been selected for the jobs. While I was in an interview last week, the nursing manager to me I needed to be able to accept constructive criticism. I told her I loved getting feedback from people since I would rather be told when I am doing something wrong rather than do it wrong over and over again. Then she preceded to tell me that I if I didn't get a job at her hospital, for my future interviews to not make it look as though I have no experience. This boggled me! I don't want to lie to other nurse managers and tell them I have experience when I don't. I describe my clinical experiance to them as well as my previous work experience that may relate to nursing. But I thought as nurses we were suppose to be ethical and is lying about previous nursing experience very ethical? I accepted her statement but told her I just didn't think it was right to lie. Then I told her maybe that's why I havn't gotten a job yet. Is this really why? What advice would anyone out there have for me in ways I can show some sort of experience without outright lying about it and then getting caught? I just don't know what I am suppose to do since I have to start paying back loans and there are no jobs out there for new grads without experience. I am stating to lose everything I have worked to hard for these part 6 years. So hopeless....