melb6482

I have been in the medical field in a city and state that I thought was great for the last 10 years. I have climbed the totem pole. I started as a Patient care nursing assistant, then a medical assistant, then a clinical technician working in the step-down and ICU's for the cardiac department. I have worked everwhere doctors' offices, the hospital (and everywhere withing), home health facilities, personal homes, clinics you name it. I graduated nursing school and I am also a sorta computer geek, always have been since 6 grade when the school I went to I did communications and broadcast arts. So we did everything with media. I loved it and so when I graduated I had a friend that found Computer Consulting RN EMR'S (electronic.medical.records). They wanted nurses to train how to flip hospitals from paper charts or other systems to a larger system called EPIC. I took it and the opportunities that came after we amazing and hard to turn down. I got to work in some of the most incredible places all over the country. I got to meet a lot of people and sustain large amounts of knowledge. Not to mention a ton of offers to remain there as a nurse. So unfortunately also happening at the time, I am not practicing my nursing and I decided to move states and to the south. Knowing that I wouldnt land my dream job anytime soon I thought for sure the opportunities would be plentiful. I could not have been any more wrong. It seems that no one wants me. All that I can find myself in are nursing homes, which do not get me wrong I love still but I am a hospital nurse and I can not even get anyone to talk to me? I know that I may not have that many skills but I am eager to learn and motivated is that not enough anymore. I am losing faith that I will ever get to move up. I just thought that all the great things that I have done in the past would be enough. I even worked at Yale University for 9 months as a Nurse IT specialist, and Cleveland Clinic in Ohio that is rated number 1 in the nation for heart. What am I doing wrong?

I know that you have to be aggressive and go out there and show your face. I just moved to South Carolina, where I thought I would be able to find a job with no problem. I can not find anything. I have 10 years medical experience from everything starting to Home Health Aide to Clinical Technician. I have traveled as an Electronic Medical Record converter all over the US and have worked for places such as Yale University and the famous Cleveland Clinic. I still cannot get into anywhere. I have pulled out the phone book and started calling doctor offices, I applied to every hospital system. I am losing hope. I have a 4 year old and a family to take care of. I am the breadmaker here and I feel like I picked the wrong career. I have tried to go to places to let them see my face but half of them all want you to go "online". I just moved here so even though I can look on the map and look in the phone book, traveling to places to have people see me face to face is something else and a lot of money and time that I do not always have. I am running out of my savings money and I do not have much child care. I have worked so hard that I think I worked myself backward.I know it will eventually happen, but what do I have to lose before that happens? Anybody got more than just advice, I need a miracle