Sacramento Area

[Rhythsetradio]

Due to recent events, I am going to have to move to California to seek a RN position. Unfortunately or fortunately, my husband and I are planing to move back to his home state (CA) after he completes his tour in Afghanistan (due to his GI bill and going back to school for himself). I just graduated in May 09 with my ADN and passed my nclex in Nov 09. I live in Pittsburgh right now and really, it's a hunt like every where else in the country. I've still not got a single call back from any of the 10 hospitals in this one county. Except for the VA..and well, they wanted a two contract.

I'll be relocating to the Sacramento area and have a few questions about this area but really I'll live anywhere in the state. The only reason I'm moving so soon while he is in Afghanistan is because it's important I get my state residency so I can go back to school.

Compared to the rest of the state, is Sacramento just as dry as the bay area and LA area? I have found a lot of posts on those two areas and San Diego so this is just why I'm wondering. I'm still waiting for my Temp. Practice permit so would it be an okay thing to start applying for jobs in that area even if I don't have my TPP yet?

And on a personal note. If UPMC was finally to offer me an RN position (chuckle), would it be more wise to just sit in Pittsburgh for that 8 months he has left in the army and work here and then move to CA? But mind you, residency is very important to me because I do want to go back to school but Jan '11 or August '10. It appears to me in some of these posts, experience isn't really getting anyone in anyways.

I guess I find this all amusing in a light hearted way due to the fact of, California will have the largest nursing shortage in the whole country by 2011 or 2012. ...But yet, no one is able to get a job. It's not that we are not needed, it's just, they aren't hiring.

I am trying to find any statistics on the new hiring rate for RN's in California, the percentage anyways.

Thank you for your insight.

Happy New Year.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Sacramento's nursing job market is doing slightly worse than the Bay area at the present time. Ninety percent of the new grads that have been churned into Sacramento's job market have not been able to land any nursing positions.