Sammy324

I live in Australia... So even though we live so far away we definately have a lot in common. In this country the training for RN is 3years. Then after you graduate you apply to a site called computer match...which is a year paid internship... which is a mad scramble and will make the best of friends enemies.... when applying you pick 3 hospitals you would like to work at go on interviews then only if you were liked enough you can be picked...If you dont get this graduate year you are basicly out of luck beacuse you need one to work... . there are private hospitals as well for people like me who arent residents of Australia... im from America so I could only apply to certain hospitals.. I am a naturally nervous person.. so i can be bullied quite a bit... I can be intimidated very easily and when it comes to the pressures of interviewing I can come accross as not so smart.... But when it comes to getting on the ward and doing my job i excell... Thats why I prefer agency nursing thats how I got offered jobs... they saw me working....the nurses were helpful and always told me not to get discouraged... My point is you can have the best resume.... the best interview.. the drive .. the smarts the best of everything... what I found is just being myself and not really trying so hard and keeping myself open to anything... even vein clinics! I dont really ask carreer advice to nurses who have been nursing for over ten years beacuse they didnt have competion like we do...hospitals want you ready to go.. they are all about money.. they dont want to have to train you.. So the biggest thing is confidence...just fake it till you make it. You did your 4 years you know your stuff!!!

If anyone knows a good resume person for nursing send them my way!

Yes i was foolish when i worked an acute shift at the same hospital i was waiting to start my pool role.. they asked me if i wanted a jon and I thought i was being loyal by kindly declining thinking oppertunities would come my way eventually.. but when i started to ask my manger if i could start some acute shifts she said i had to wait the 6 months and then only they would consider me if my track record is good.... i frel like be then all my acut nursing skills will be gone... im thinking on going part time and going back to agency.. I live the hospital im at.. but not the role im in

No one will hire me for acute beacuse I have been in sub acute since I graduated only. year ago.. i feel trapped and depressed... its not where i want to be. I can't afford any more school... When i did agency i was always on acute... but the work is inconsistent money wise... Rehab is not where i want to be!