question for all personnel involved in the hiring process for **new**registered nurse

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This is a question for all personnel involved in the hiring process for **new**registered nurses (especially New York area)

I'm an ADN graduate (May 2011) and currently possess my RN license. My questions are.....*

1) would it be wise/advisable to consider another career until the job market becomes more receptive to new grad RNs?*

2) if I were to become a police officer, maintain my RN license, complete my BSN while building transferable skills ( ie: communication, assessment while under stress , flexibility, conflict resolution ectect) ....... Would I be able to realistically begin my career as a new Registered Nurse?*

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:) Bump

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Specializes in ED, trauma.

If you are going to be holding an RN license and have no experience you will need to have a refresher course completed close to the time you plan to re-enter the nursing workforce.

If you want a nursing job now, consider relocating. Honestly, you graduated 2 years ago already, as an "old" new grad, a refresher course and some certifications along with relocating may be what you need to do in order to succeed in the field.

With nursing schools pumping out fresh new grads by the hundreds, employers will be considering them primarily because they are fresh to the field. How do you intend to compete with fresh new grads when you are getting stale by being in a different workforce entirely? Have you considered a clinic? Long term care? Health department? Flu clinics? Planned parenthood? Basically have you exhausted all avenues for ANY kind of nursing experience?

You probably aren't getting many bites on this post because this is a forum for nurses. Not psychics. We will never know what hiring will be like in the future. Good luck in your pursuits, whatever those may be.

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

IMHO...

Yes to refresher course.

Maybe, to paramedic training. That is direct patient care, maybe seen as transferable skills.

No, to police officer as being highly valued in regards to moving into nursing

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg.
If you want a nursing job now, consider relocating

Probably your best bet from what I've heard/read about the job market in NY.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I have no special knowledge of the nursing market in the NY area, but the majority of large urban areas in the US are rapidly becoming "BSN only" for acute care jobs. Chances are, this is also the case in NY. I don't believe that this is going to change in the future due to many different market forces.

In my neck of the woods, you can't become a police officer without at least 60 hours of college (AD) & the training academy is a 6 month process. It would be easier and faster just to do a bridge to BSN. Maybe this is not the case in NY?

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No college degree in the SoCal area, however the PDs are slow hiring, you're looking at 6mo to get an academy date (if your background is crystal clear) and then a 1-6mo wait and then a 6-9mo academy. Might as well get the bachelors degree.

Posting from my phone, ease forgive my fat thumbs! :)

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I would like to thank everyone for sharing their advise. *Currently I am enrolled in an RN to BSN program. Although I would prefer to stay local, Im absolutely ready and willing to relocate ANYWHERE (once I receive an offer of course). Additionally, I have been applying for nursing positions nation- wide (isolated locations/high rate of population growth/.... High crime :S ectect)*

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Ive spent significant time and effort applying to clinics, long term care/rehab, health department, dep of mental health, corrections and planned parenthood ( **being a guy, I've received a number of odd looks).*

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Sry about the excessive asterisks.... Something with my phone.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

OP: Since you are willing to move, have you checked North Dakota hospitals and outpatient settings? A few years back the oil boom caused many hospitals to hire Nurses (New Grads included) over the phone. Those hospitals and other facilities may still have a great need for nurses given the overall low unemployment rate for the entire State. Good Luck.

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I've been applying to facilities in North Dakota and Texas border towns with little luck so far. Those areas were good suggestions though. I received more feedback from those areas in the past.

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