"Meat To Go Along With your Resume"

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I've read so many blogs about new nurses not finding jobs. I don't know why schools don't require nursing students to get a job in the health care field while in school at least PRN work.

Out of my class that graduated (april 2010) 2 of us have jobs and that's because we were already working in the health care field. Everyone else in our class is stil looking for jobs. I know about 2 schools that tells there students to get PCT tech positions or care partner positions, just to have meat to go with students resume or so they can be offered a position before the next person.... So my question is Why don't nursing schools that require you to take a HESI exit exam,require you to do an interview with your so called recruiter for the school, and tell you nursing is high in demand, put this as a requirement especially when they know you have no nursing or health care background you are practically starting from scratch????????:cool:

I've read so many blogs about new nurses not finding jobs. I don't know why schools don't require nursing students to get a job in the health care field while in school at least PRN work.

. I know about 2 schools that tells there students to get PCT tech positions or care partner positions, just to have meat to go with students resume or so they can be offered a position before the next person....

These days, it doesn't necessarily matter. PCT positions, CNA positions, whatever you call them, do not necessarily buy you an RN position. The positions just don't exist. And what's worse is that you've trucked along for however many years you've spent in nursing school thinking that you're going to be offered a position on this floor that you've worked on for all of this time -- or certainly, at least, in the building -- and you're not. And some facilities don't want a GN as a tech. So now you don't have a job. The market is brutal... absolutely awful. Prior to now, I would absolutely have agreed with you; now, it's almost like anything goes.

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