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I am guessing it's time for the 0300 med pass?

You sound like you are in the position I have been in. Heck I can't even get a hospital to look at me since I don't have BSN yet. I worked in home health for awhile and now do per diem work at a surgery center. I am fortunate that I found they started a community college class for OR nursing which will be my ticket into the OR. Already the OR manager said she would work me in the OR once I complete the program. So my advise would be to try to find a OR class or something like it in your area.

AFWife, that is some hard licks. Most places i like to think will train you how they like to have things done. The few of my friends that had a connections into the hospitals got 6-8 weeks of training. For the home health job i got 30 minutes of training, and have gotten yelled at alot as I slowly figured it out. Charting is the hard part to get down. On a brighter note Home health is a slower environment. You can go as fast or as slow as you want so there isn't as much pressure. Patients are generally in better shape as well, but if there are problems you have to call the Dr. or on call Nurse Practitioner. I mostly do Wound care, medication/pillbox setup and education, diabetes education and care and foley care. No IV's, which makes me sad as I would like to keep in with that, and nothing more advanced, but that is the direction the company I work for goes. It took me 6 months to start really being proficient and it has been rewarding. Only reason I got the home health job is a friend hooked me up with interview. My advice would be to try outside of the hospital and look into other options. I know they breed us in school that if you aren't in the hospital you aren't really nursing but honestly its not that bad. You can always keep trying for hospital to, but at least you are doing something nursing related. Keep your head up, many of us know the frustration. You will find something.

Be glad you even got an interview. I have applied to the hospitals for 9 months and have yet to even get an interview. I ended up doing a 2 month stint at a very very unsafe skilled nursing facility, and have now settled on home health job for now. I want to say keep your head up as that is what everyone else tells me. The best suggestion I could suggest would be to network... Seems the only way you can get a place to try out a new grad.