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  1. Hugs to you. Try and try again. Tweak your admission essay. Spiff up your resume. Don't give up. Good
  2. Moving to Los Angeles- Los feliz - glendale area

    Looking at Google Maps, in Los Feliz, there's Hollywood Presbyterian. Glendale has Glendale Adventist, Glendale Memorial, Kaiser. Kaiser generally treats their nurses well; I do not know about the...
  3. When did they stop the wallet-size
  4. Don't want to commit too soon...

    You can always ask for a few days to think about it. Does not hurt in asking. Good luck from an old new grad to another!
  5. Ways around it

    That's unfortunate that you had so many preceptors and not much stability. I've read of nurses in Texas that were blacklisted. I think the background check group was Group One. Good luck in your...
  6. I can't get a job

    Chin up, I'm inching close to the two year mark in this saturated market without a job. It's tough, but a job will come eventually. In the meantime, do what the above poster mentioned. Good
  7. MUSC BSN-DNP Fall 2013

    Here's a thread about MUSC from 2011. Read to your heart's content. Good luck in grad
  8. New Grad working nights in the ER

    First, do you have a good support system for your young one? Second, if you do a search, there are a lot of tips about working nights. They range from having white noise - a fan - when you sleep to...
  9. LIVE SCAN FORM..help

    Well, this is their website: Board of Registered Nursing - Fingerprint Requirement. Reading that, there's the section under Live Scan Process: If you are in California, you may use the Live Scan...
  10. Accredited online NP programs for Texas

    When I talked to Georgetown recruiters, they said Georgetown does not find preceptors for clinicals for the students; it is the students' responsibility. They may "assist" if one cannot find a...
  11. Question for RNs from a student.

    I've seen listings like this of prn nursing students. Their duties seem like a
  12. I'm almost hitting the 2 year jobless/unemployed mark as a new grad in
  13. Question for RNs from a student.

    First off, congratulations on getting in to your top choice! Right now, even volunteering in a hospital does not open doors. It may give it a crack, but there's not enough jobs going around for new...
  14. Minot ND information

    Good luck trying to find housing! Rent in Minot is very, very expensive, especially if you are trying to do it
  15. White Memorial- RN New Grad 2013

    Wow. It used to be 2 years. Now it's 2.5
  16. Compulsory Phd for NP?

    There's the proposal that it's the DNP (not PhD) to practice as an NP by 2015, but it's not official yet. You can search on the forum; there's been a bunch of threads regarding
  17. I got the job!!!! Two in fact!

    Congrats! There's hope for the rest of us unemployed/jobless new grads.
  18. Job Change?

    Is it possible for you to hold out until that magical one year mark to get your experience and then move on? Search the board for tips about how people cope with the night shifts. There's a lot of...
  19. Registered Nursing in Los Angeles

    Job outlook in LA is bleak. Better than NoCal, but still bleak. CHLA new grad residents start in high $20s. UCLA is $30-ish for their new grad residents. So, assuming you come to LA with a year...
  20. Movin on

    I would not move unless I had a job lined up and ready to go. NYC and CA are oversaturated with experienced and new grads, which means that finding work is very difficult. It's not impossible to find...
  21. "New" 2008 grad- help please!

    The definition of "new grads" varies between hospitals. Some hospitals state a new grad as having less than 1 year of paid RN experience. Other hospitals state a new grad as having graduated nursing...
  22. CA RN application denied

    You might want to post this in the World section. I think there's 2 or 3 schools that offer those classes alone without having to go through the whole nursing school program. You could do a search...
  23. New BSN Grad- Help!

    Roughly a
  24. Is there such a thing as bad experience?

    It is discouraging, but chin up! You've only been at it a few months. In this economy, it is taking a lot longer to land that first RN job. Good
  25. Is there such a thing as bad experience?

    If you have bills to pay, any income is great, even while you are looking for your dream hospital job. The thing to keep in mind is that if you are planning to apply to new grad/versant residencies or...