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Thank you!

I would also like to share my happy tears experience... I am still a fairly newbie nurse with a little more there a year of med surg experience. Just this past weekend, as I was getting report, one of my patients name sounded really familiar. When I went into her room to introduce myself I realized I met her last year when she was really sick and required an ileostomy bag placed. During this admission, she was getting better and was back in the hospital to get the ileostomy closed. She was really excited to see me again and started telling me how she told everyone about me after she was discharged. I was so happy that she was getting better that my eyes started brimming a little with happy tears. I am glad that i am part of her journey to recovery. Sometimes, there are days when I question why I became a nurse, but seeing her made me realize why I entered this profession again.

Hi, sorry for the late reply! Any luck so far? I dont have any CNA experience, but I have worked as a medical receptionist for 6 years. I am bilingual in English and Chinese though. My advice is to get any experience you can get and then keep on trying. Dont give up!

They were both for Med Surg positions. I was excited to land an interview, but it all happened after I accepted the positon already. I declined the interviews.

Hello, so sorry for the late reply! I currently work at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, but I believe one of the reasons why they hired me was because I went to school at Beth Israel School of Nursing. But shortly after I got hired, I started to get replies back for an interviews from other hospitals like Methodist and Lutheran. Be patient and dont give up!

Hi, I was a new graduate with an associates degree in 2013 and I was able to land a hospital position a year later. At that point I was already working as an RN in the community setting and enrolled in BSN program. I must have submitted over hundreds of applications. Just dont give up!

Dont worry. I am right there with you. I started working in October. I am currently working in the med surg float pool. Been on my own for about a month now. Everyone says it gets better. I really hope its true! I usually get so anxious the night before I have work that I cant sleep.

You are not alone. I am in my third week of precepted and I do feel overwhelmed, incompetent, slow and even stupid. I have been given 5 patients with new admissions. I barely have time to document assessments. I also do it very slowly because I dont want to miss anything, but my preceptor keeps on telling to speed up. She also mentioned I am slow. It makes me wonder if I am in the right field. Everyone keeps on telling me to not give up. I really hope it will get better. Dont give up. We are all going through the same thing. :)

It took me about a year and after 100+ applications before I finally landed my first hospital position. Good luck!

Hi FLboundBSN! You are so lucky to have obtained your first hospital position so fast! It took me a little bit more than a year to find a hospital position and as I have mentioned before, I am starting next month. Looking forward to sharing the experience with everyone else! I am pretty anxious, nervous and excited all rolled up in one. I hope that the experienced nurse won't "eat the young"!

Hi everyone, I am also starting in October as a med surg float nurse. Reading everyones posts makes me feel very anxious and jittery knowing that I will have to go through everything you guys are going through. I am sure we can make it through this together!

Thank you estrellaCR for your prompt response! I have applied to at least 80+ positions on the HHC website now and I have not received a single response. Its just very frustrating. Every couple of weeks, I try to fix my resume again and hopefully will get something, but still nothing. I guess I will continue to try again.

Hi, I was just wondering where you guys submitted your resume for the HHC hospitals? Did you submit it through the HHC website or just faxed it to the numbers listed on the website? I have been applying since March and I have not received any response. It was frustrating when I called the HR department because they also didn't seem to know were to send the resumes to as well. Does anyone know the process how HHC hospitals hire? Thanks. Best of luck to you NYRN92!

Hi, I missed the open house event as well. Does anyone know of any other job fair or open house events in New York City? Thank you.

Hi NycRN92. Thanks for the information. I also received the post card as well. I'm sure it is a generic post card they send to everyone who applied for a position. Best of luck to all of us!