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I would recommend Green Valley as well. As for specific apartments, Adobe Ranch is nice, well kept with a nice heated pool. Stay away from Green Valley Country Club.. takes them months and many phone calls to fix anything. Those are the only ones I've had experience with. I'd stay away from just east of the strip, north vegas, and central.

LOL! I am taking mine tomorrow, and I was just thinking that will be my exact reaction! I can already see it after i finish.... getting in my car and screaming, then crying, then calling everyone i know. I just hope that doesn't start until AFTER i make it outside the test center.

BSN-Dec2006, I'm still trying to figure out the process of becoming licensed in NV. I went ahead and applied to be registered in Maryland, and will take my NCLEX here. My school said they'd only help with in-state applications, so I figured it would be easy to then endorse to Nevada..?? I just got my endorsement packet, and the finger-printing process that NV requires can take 3-4 months! You just go to a local police station for that and send the prints off to the FBI, so you can do that from where you currently are. But go ahead and request that from them so you can get started when you're ready. Good luck to you in school!!! I'll let you know if i find any relocation deals, but i haven't seen any for new grads.

Thanks for all the insight! I'm planning on moving out there after i take my NCLEX in a few weeks. I guess I'll find something if not a nursing job right away, and maybe it'll be easier once I'm out there.

You are not alone sister! I have lost 5 pounds since graduating a month ago, can barely eat. I am wide awake at 3 am, in tears every other day. I didn't realize that I was supposed to be applying BEFORE graduating. I even get phone calls or emails saying that I will be contacted by someone else, and then all of a sudden I get no responses anymore. Hopefully we're just being impatient???... i hope. I quit my job of 6 years to study for the NCLEX, and work on finding the right job...NEVER imagined it would take this long.

I too am a job-less, on my way to hope-less, new RN grad. I have applied to 5 hospitals in my city. I had 1 interview, but the interviewer thought I wasn't ready for the new-grad critical care position. The other places never even offered an interview. I don't think I can fill out another long on-line app with the even longer personality tests. I am exhausted. I have since decided to move to another city... so maybe all this was for the best. As I started my new search, I was all energized, but am now running into the same problem again. I have searched through so many online job listings on hospital web-sites, and see 20 jobs that I appear qualified for, then I get an email back stating they are not hiring new-grads at this time, "we'll keep you on file for 6 months". I would be happy to take anything right now, and that isn't a good thing, hearing what conditions i can wind up in. But at this point, a bad job is better than no job

I 'm a single gal who can't imagine life without living in the city, and I'd know nobody..that's too scary for me at this point in my life. I've lived in DC/Baltimore my whole life, and I'm ready to try someplace new. I know a few people in Vegas at least. Thanks though, I bet it's beautiful!! I would have expected the rural areas to be harder to get into for some reason.

First off, I'm planning on relocating, so I'm wondering if that is a turn-off? I'm nervous about moving (from Maryland) with nothing lined up! And I haven't even taken my NCLEX yet. I'm applying all over Vegas, and getting no response or the "not at this time" answer. I put in apps online a week ago, maybe i'm impatient. But some places reply immediately, and others, i just get vague confirmation emails, saying we'll keep your info in our database. I'm learning fast that this "nursing shortage" applies to experienced nurses! I see all these relocation deals, and retention bonuses. I've run into the same thing over here. I know that for a new grad, i'm kind of late applying also. I wasn't sure where i wanted to live at that point. Sorry for all my rambling, but I'm gonna loose it if I hear one more thing about the "shortage".

I too would love to relocate to Vegas, I'm a new grad currently in Maryland. I was just wondering what the potential is for new grads in Vegas. I notice the demand seems to be for experienced nurses. Around here the most common requirement seems to be 1-2 years experience. I am so frustrated, but I have always wanted to move to Vegas, but i don't want to face the same frustrations out there. I just applied today to UMC, and am looking at St. Rose now. Any tips for a new grad? Any help is soooo greatly appreciated!

MILD and some moderate anxiety is a normal response (the kind that motivates us, or signals our attention to something) But there are the more severe types, panic attacks that are more disabling. I suffered many years with anxiety that went undiagnosed. Got worse in nursing school. Wasn't til my Psych class that i learned what a panic attack was, and I was even having them in my sleep (every few nights I'd wake up gasping for air, and every morning a major headache that felt like a hangover, and of course the classic major palpitations, and dizziness, etc). Since starting anti-anxiety drugs, I haven't once experienced that. I've exercised all along, and always take long hot showers, which i believe help, but none of this thought-changing helps while sleeping. Sometimes for sleep, it did help to set the sleep-timer on my tv and watch some silly makeover show or something. Best wishes to you in school!! I am struggling along with you. I hope you find a way to cope that works for you.

I am not sure where you live, but here (Washington DC area) I am close to NIH (National Institutes of Health) and I participated in a pain study, and it was FREE. Not to mention waaaay better care than i could imagine anywhere else. Maybe there is something like that near you??? Try their site.... clinicaltrials.gov I'm pretty sure that they have other locations. Good Luck!!!!

I am in my L/D clinical rotation. My bedroom is just above the room with the washing machine, which I can hear running right now. And I just found myself taking the pulse of my washing machine. It sounds just like a fetal HR!!!.... AND the washing machine even has a "pulse" of 165!!! I actually counted it!!

I am also in my 2nd semester. My clinical starts next week, I am sooooo nervous! I know everyone in my group would be nervous to get started, but then when we meet at post conference, we think how silly we were. My instructor would say that thanks to our nerves, at least we won't have to worry about staying "regular" while in school. Gosh is that true, I'm just glad I haven't thrown up yet.

Awe, I know how you feel! I suffered for 3 weeks before i finally went to the dr. for my sinus infection. I had same head cold sypmtoms, plus each week I'd get a severe sore throat that lasted only 1 day each, and then a fever one night. I think my body was telling me to go to the Dr. but I would put it off. I felt so awful, while I was taking a test during all this, i just wanted to fail my test and end it. Don't let yours linger on! Hope you get better quick!

I don't even think we are allowed to take those together at my school. Sounds crazy to me. I work part-time though, so I can't imagine it. Nursing classes aren't something I'd be comfortable in just barely passing. I know I couldn't handle it, mainly because I am not disciplined enough to. Go talk to an advisor at school, just make sure they are a nursing advisor! My school is always making us take surveys to gather data on us like how many hours we work, if we have kids, and what other classes we are taking. I think this gives them an idea of how much we can handle.