Qualified New Grad RN, No one wants to hire!!!!!

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Specializes in Med/Tele.

Hello everyone,

It feels as if just yesterday I was poping out the bubbly and doing a celebratory dance in ode to passing the NCLEX, but now that celebration is over and I am facing an even bigger challenge. I am a new Grad RN from a BSN program and i'm having a hard time finding work. I am a scholarship recipient for one of the biggest healthcare systems in South Florida, yet they do not have any position for us "scholarship interns" since they gave out more scholarships than available positions. I am being told that the hospital has 120 days to place me before the contract becomes null/void. Problem is, i do not have 4 months to spare. I have a mortgage and a child. I am willing to repay the scholarship if i am able to find a position within another hospital, but I have already applied to over 40 jobs within ALL the hospitals in South Florida as well as Central Florida and they all are NOT hiring new grads!! Every position is requiring EXPERIENCE!!!! Even a Med/surg unit where new grads are SUPPOSE to earn their experience , is requiring 2+ years experience. I am really running out of options and i'm considering relocating out of state if push comes to shove. Does anyone know where is hiring new grad RNs, even if it isnt in Florida?:crying2:

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Any rural area will take you in LTC. In a heartbeat.

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We hear you over here in New Jersey... we are all in the same boat. All going to LTC as getting a job in a hospital is just about impossible... I go out daily pounding the pavement and will keep on doing it until I find something. Good luck to you! Nice you can relocate, hope you get some good replies on that. I'm dying to see the states that say 'we need people here'. Seems to be a country wide issue.

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Specializes in Critical Care/Coronary Care Unit,.

bethesda memorial hospital is hiring new nurses. they're in boynton beach, but it's a great hospital. they have a cardiac telemetry preceptorship that starts in august. apply online. good luck.

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Specializes in ICU-CCRN, CVICU, SRNA.

Yes, Bethesda definitely. Thats where Im hoping to go too, just a different unit. Good luck. Took me 8 months to find a job as a new grad over 2years ago

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Specializes in peds, OB/GYN, IM,.

not hiring new grads in illinois either

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Here we go again with the "Woe is me" cries after one graduates...And I'll say it again...did you do your homework BEFORE you became a nurse? In other words, did you ask nurses, recuiters, employees in the field about how your job prospects would be once you graduate? Did you do a simple (AND FREE) Google search to see what the hiring trends were? Take a look at your diploma--where does it say "I am now ENTITLED to a job?"

This is the problems the nursing field faces today--everyone and their frickin' brother wants to be a nurse...The result? A glut of new nurses and low turnover, hospitals closing and/or on hiring freezes, etc. If you have a good GPA, well, good for you. It doesn't move you to the top of your list. On graduation day, the person with the highest GPA and the lowest GPA will both have diplomas at the end of the ceremony. Passed the NCLEX on the first try? Oh joy! So did thousands of others---and they're out of a job, too.

Wait tables, pole dance, work retail until you land your nursing job--it's not beneath you--it's called opportunity and managing to stay alive and afloat in these tough times. Do what you have to do. If you have to work overnights as a nurse, well, people are sick overnight, too. So many grads think that they have to have a 9-5 schdedule so their jobn doesn't infringe on their social lives....If you have to move out of state, well, then do so. You're an adult, and if you're otherwise legally barred from leaving the state you reside in, it's time to look outside your comfort zone. (Last I heard, people in California, Montana, and Colorado get sick, too. Shhhhhhhh.).

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Tyler, your post is harsh.

There are nursing jobs out there but they're hard to get. The hospitals in my area are hiring 2 PT to make one FTE to save on bennies, etc.

My facility needs nurses all the time but, again, it's LTC. No excitement, a pathetic crash cart with an ancient AED and stome-acge suction, but it bears repeating: LOOK IN RURAL AREAS.

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I know it probably won't sound good to you, but if it comes to it, I'd try north GA.

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Tyler, your post was way out of line.

Things have changed drastically in just the last couple of years. An acquaitance of mine, when she started her ADN program, there 25 jobs for every applicant. Now, the situation has reversed.

And suggesting she pole dance to pay the bills - that's so bizarre that I don't know where to start. Oh, wait, yes I do. It's a misagynistic, disgusting thing to say. You wouldn't advise a man to make a sex object of himself to pay the bills.

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I stand corrected. To the male nurses: be Chippendale dancer, exotic dancer, etc. if that's what it takes to pay the bills.

Sometimes "harsh" posts are rooted in reality.

A diploma does not GUARANTEE a job. It opens the doors for them. And if the door opens several states away, then that's where you have to answer it.

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Specializes in peds, OB/GYN, IM,.

im not saying i dont have a job, for i do, as an rn. i work in an office. no a license does not intitle me to a job, my work ethic and skills do. but it is hard out there and i have applied to ever job in a 6 county range, every shift every day, and still nothing. they want experience but its less time they have to spend training someone. and every nurse i talked to before i started school toldme to do it.

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