Relocating for a job

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Hello,

I was just wondering, I know many nurses are having trouble finding jobs ( me included). Would you relocate? I mean pack up your family and sell your home for a job somewhere else? I don't mean just on a whim, after research of course. How long should one keep looking for a job and not be working? I would move in a heartbeat. I love the idea of being in a new place. On the other hand, my husband hates the idea, doesn't want to leave our house or our state. I was just wondering how many people do it.

Good luck to all you going west!! I love the Southwest. I love LTC care, it used to be that LTC was all there was for work. Now, I can't even find that. There are open positions that I am applying too, but even with experience, there are soo many applicants. I have gotten all shorts of emails for jobs in AZ/NM/and Nevada for LTC positions, but I would be nervous to take a job so far away without knowing more about the facility.

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Specializes in cardiac.

I'm a soon to be grad (May) and I'm looking to move from Illinois to Colorado. I've heard things are bad in Colorado, but from what I'm hearing from people who graduated before me things are bad in Illinois. So I look at it this way. Live where you want to live. The jobs will eventually come back as long as we can all just hang in there a bit longer. I'm looking at getting ACLS and PALS done while I'm waiting on a job. I figure maybe this will make me more marketable since I have no experience. Though I do know that if you have no experience and too many qualifications, you are too expensive to hire. So it is a fine line.

Anyways, I say go for the move if that is what you want to do.

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I'm a May of 2009 grad and I recently accepted RN position and I'm relocating to another state (300 miles away)

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that is great to hear about people trying new experience. besides, most of us left other jobs to persue nursing. we stepped out on faith and you all have succeeded.besides, you are damed if you do and damed if you don't so, be damed and do besides you never know until you try! good luck to all that will try for employment in other states!:yeah:

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Specializes in LTC Family Practice.

For all of you moving enjoy the great adventure and good luck! I will continue to remind folks about the small to midsized towns in more rural environments, many places are still hiring there and are willing to take on a new grad.

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That is exactly the type of place I am looking to move.

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Specializes in Home Care.

I start the LPN-RN transition program in May.

I'll be putting my house on the market by the time I start school so that I'll be ready to relocate if I can't find a job here. I plan on starting my job search about 3 months before I graduate.

My fingers are crossed that I will find a job where I currently live. But I'm not afraid to pick up and relocate if I have to.

I'm currently single and my kids are grown, just me and the dogs :)

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I love this thread! I am new to these boards, they are really so helpful!

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Why does Texas still have nursing jobs?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Acute Rehab.
I don't have a husband and children, but I'm relocating to Texas from NJ. I love the idea that I'm going to move to a brand new place. It's exciting and a bit stressful at the same time. All my friends and family currently reside in NJ, but I see it as an adventure. I looked for about 6 months before I got something in Texas. I'm grateful that I have a job and that my friends and family are supporting me. Good luck.

I just relocated to Corpus Christi for a job. I really love it here. I am originally from NYC, but had lived in Dallas for a while. Moved back east to be near my family and go to nursing school. As soon as I graduated, I started applying for positions in Texas. I was hoping to get back to Dallas, but did not get any offers there. Got many, many offers all over the rest of Texas. The hospitals here pay so much better, with good diffs, and most will pay for your move. Also, there is no state income tax!;)

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.
Why does Texas still have nursing jobs?

I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but maybe not.

Look at the areas of the country that have been hardest hit by the downturn in the economy recently. In those areas many people lost their jobs. Many of those jobs were in homes where there was a non-working or part-time or PRN nurse. Those nurses have now seen the need to return to nursing full-time. This has particularly affected new grads. Experienced nurses cost less to train than new grads. In these tough economic times, hospitals are having trouble collecting their bills as people out there are having trouble paying them. Units are getting pressure to cut costs in many ways. That's one way to do it.

It all goes back to what we've been saying for years here on AN, that there is no nursing shortage, there is a shortage of nurses not willing to work (mostly due to non-ideal working conditions). Those nurses are now sucking it up and going back to work out of need.

Just watch here in about 3, 5, or 7 years, there will be another "shortage" as nurses are able to go PT, PRN or flat out stay home again.

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If the average age of an RN truly is 48, we are looking at something beyond a shortage in the near future. Look at the size of the baby boomer generation in a census comparison. Its a HUGE population about to get old...not buying this current situation as anywhere near tenable. Especially with the stock market and 401ks coming back.

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