catlovingRN BSN, RN

Hi everyone!!!! So I am VERY happy to say I have an interview on a med/surg floor at Virtua Memorial Hospital in South Jersey! Does anyone work there/has interviewed there recently and knows the process? My interview is Wednesday- they said I'll meet...

Hi everyone! So after being an Ortho/Stroke nurse for a year I finally got an interview for a full-time L&D position! I interviewed with the nurse manager last Thursday and it went really well. She emailed me last night saying the next step would...

Thanks for your responses! For whatever reason the second interview never got scheduled, but this morning (almost 2 months later) I got offered the job!!!!! Looking forward to stepping away from medsurg and into the very different world of L&D! [...

Hi everyone, I interviewed two days ago for a maternity position that will include orientation in mother baby, newborn nursery, and eventually antepartum and L&D. I'm going on 8 months as an ortho/stroke nurse and it is not an easy job. The patie...

Thanks for all the responses!! I am still waiting to hear about the MB position and just emailed HR today to follow up! I'm still on my parents insurance for about the next 2 plus years so I will compare the two and take that into consideration. If i...

I really appreciate your response and I will definitely look into that! I also just learned that the L&D manager at the same hospital system I am currently employed at is not someone you want to work for, so that will probably sway my opinion if ...

I guess I should update this. The internship ended up falling through and after many many more applications and about a 4 month interviewing process I got a job on an ortho/stroke floor in south Jersey. I start tomorrow! :)

So this has been quite a long process, but if anyone is interested in hearing how things went: I just got an email from the first hospital offering me the ortho/stroke position!!!!!!!!! I am super excited about this! The NR will be calling me tomorro...

So I posted about 2 weeks ago before my first interview with no response.. ended up getting a second interview with a nurse manager on a renal med/surg unit which I had yesterday. In my opinion, the interview went really well! I was greeted by a very...

I'm going to disagree with the above posters because I graduated this past May with my BSN and a minor in Spanish. Of course it was not easy, but I managed to complete my major and minor, have a part-time job and a life, all while graduating on time....

Well first, I would probably take your GPA off your resume. I've heard directly from someone in HR that they really don't need to see it unless you have something very impressive (aka 3.5 or preferably higher). Second, I would practice your interview...

Personally I feel like if you can't see it when it's flipped up no one should even know you have it so I can't really see any issue. I have 4 piercings in each ear and they're a pain to take out with jewelry like that so I understand where you're com...

I was in the same boat. I called my dad directly after and he's like how was it and I said I don't know and he's like aw come on you definitely passed and I said I don't know and started bawling hahaha. It definitely is the most mentally and emotiona...

Oh yes!!! Very much so. I forgot that this thread had 0 background information about me, but L&D is what I'm most interested in. As a new grad, however, I knew it would be unlikely to get a position in this specialty right away so I put it on the...

Updating you guys again in case you're interested! Still waiting for a call about the peer interview from the first hospital, but I also managed to snag an interview at another hospital!!! ...on a labor and delivery unit (whaaaaat?!!!!!!). I'm in sho...

@mdmrn23 Sorry my mindset has been strictly new grad job searching lately so I just assumed! I'm sure your experience as a float nurse will be invaluable to this new position you're about to start. :) I'm interviewing for a position on a med/surg flo...

Congrats!!!!! That is so exciting and, wow, what a unit to start on. I'm sure it will be a steep learning curve, but you seem to be already ahead of the game preparation wise (which is great). I'm still in the process of interviewing for my *hopefull...

And to add another personal note to that my mother is in her 50's and is on her second year as a teacher!! It's seriously never too late to pursue your dreams. :)

Good luck!!!! While I'm on the young spectrum of new nurses I can tell you there were many "older" (you guys are seriously not old but compared to the 20 year old population) people who were in the program as well so don't feel discouraged!! Just the...

As far as the interviews I've had, the only person who asked a decent amount of situation questions was the nurse recruiter. She asked things like: tell me a time when you went above and beyond for a patient, give me an example of a time when a there...

Thanks, you guys!! So I had the interview this morning and it went really well! I already got a call from the nurse recruiter where she informed me that they were very impressed with me and she will call me within the next week or two to schedule a p...

In case any of you are interested in my situation I'll update you! So after about a month of not hearing anything I called today and the recruiter thought she had called me and left a message (she didn't). Turns out the manager from that unit didn't ...

Hey! Considering it's now Monday I was wondering what happened with the interview! Did they ever get in contact with you or did you wing it and show up to the right place? I hope things went well for you!

I would apply to positions even if they're not directed towards new grads! Just start applying to any and every position. Then you read this lovely article: https://allnurses.com/nursing-job-search/i-got-a-532817.html and give that advice a try. That...

Like the other posters said, it sounds like you were very well prepared and you got the interview after being told there were no job openings!! Unless something changes from hospitals hiring standpoint, it looks like you have a good chance of getting...