discouraged with interviews

I mean what is it they really want to hear thats gonna get you hired??

"I have experience." or maybe, "I'm willing to relocate."? SNF may not be your dream, but it looks a lot better than nothing on a resume. The last hospital I worked at did away with their "new grad" program and started hiring "new to acute care" nurses, instead.

Is it true that once I work at a snf I will not get a job in a hospital??

No, that's not true ...at least not in a general way. What is true is that acute care positions are likely to favor acute care experience. Hospital experience would be more useful for a hospital job, but SNF experience would be better than what you have now- no experience, at all.

You graduated last year, you have a criminal background and you have an ADN in California (I'm not from there, but I hear the market is tough for new grads). While none of these are indicative of how good of a nurse you will be, they do make the job search more difficult.

You can relocate. You can take the SNF job to get experience. You can start on your BSN (but work at the same time)

Do a You Tube search for Ramit Sethi and watch some of his interviewing techniques. Being well prepared for an interview makes a world of difference. You have to exude a quiet confidence and a likability factor, and sell yourself. Don't let an interview just happen to you...go out and make it work for you! I have an interview Monday and I've already made up my mind that job will be mine by the time I walk out the door. I've been preparing for it for days now. I've sat and written down all the questions they can possibly ask me, and then written down what I'd say. Then I wrote down all the questions I want to ask them, researched the hospital and their mission statement and prepared myself to tell them who I am and why I want that job. You can do it! Good luck.

When you are going through the interview process do you research the company and the position you are applying for? During the interview, you have to remember you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing them. You are also using the interview process to SELL yourself. What makes you more valuable than the other applicants, what is something that will make them remember your name in lieu of the Tom, Dick, and Harry's going in before and after you? Do you have a plan to further your education? Where do you see yourself or where do you want to be in 5 years? What are your ambitions, weaknesses, strengths etc? Are you going in and owning the time they have allotted you or are you fidgeting and stumbling around questions asked?