Somebody wants me!!!

[antihippie]

I am 3 weeks away from finishing my first Med/Surg rotation and was getting discouraged. I have never worked health care before and I know that just because I will be an ADN graduate in a year I won't be ready to be a nurse, so I have been applying like crazy for jobs as a PCA but never could get anyone to ever call back.

Well yesterday the ward manager on the floor I am doing my clinicals on asked me to stay late and come to her office to "have a talk", what did I do wrong now? She asked me if I would be interested in being a nurse technician on her floor (short stay/pediatrics) and I jumped at it. I start as soon as Med/Surg is done and work as a tech all summer, then I am enrolled in their extern program working different units until 2 months before graduation. I spend the last 2 months 1 on 1 with an RN in the department of my choosing. After graduation they send me to an N-CLEX class for a month and upon passing I am automatically hired as an RN in the open position I desire, and if I sign a 2 year contract I get 10 grand!!!

I can't believe this fell into my lap just when I was feeling like noone would give someone with no experience a chance to learn some confidence in a safe enviornment (we don't have a nursing shortage in this area). Yesterday was even better than the day I got my acceptance letter for nursing school.:biggringi

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Your excitemnt just rattled the windows at Philadephia Airport!!!!

Glad someone saw a spark of enthusiasim and will help you get the foot in the door. Best wishes!

[smilin_gp]

Congratulations!!

[Thunderwolf, MSN, RN]

Congrats!!!!!

You provide a good example that clinical rotations can also be one of our best job interviews....proof in the pudding.

Again, Congrats to you!

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Awesome! Congrats!

[sanctuary, BSN, MSN, RN]

:balloons: :biggringi :Melody: :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa

[NurseDaddy2006]

Good for you!

It all happens the way it's supposed to happen. Ride the wave, dude.

ND

[Corvette Guy]

Congrats!!!!!

You provide a good example that clinical rotations can also be one of our best job interviews....proof in the pudding.

Again, Congrats to you!

Thunderwolf - I agree with you 101%. My first GN position was via an offer from the Charge RN on the Telemetry Unit while doing my last ADN clinicals on that Unit.

antihippie - Glad to hear your nursing program uses a medical facility with such a proactive approach in quenching the nursing shortage. You have accepted an excellent opportunity and I wish you much success.

[donsterRN, ASN, BSN]

Thunderwolf - I agree with you 101%. My first GN position was via an offer from the Charge RN on the Telemetry Unit while doing my last ADN clinicals on that Unit.

antihippie - Glad to hear your nursing program uses a medical facility with such a proactive approach in quenching the nursing shortage. You have accepted an excellent opportunity and I wish you much success.

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[gdean1]

I'm working as a NAC in one hospital while in nursing school (the best experience ever) and I do volunteer work in an ER in another hospital. I have one hospital designing a program for me to work as an LPN after the first year of school and another designing a program for an internship (and work after that) after the second year. Clinicals are a good contact point but so is volunteering.

[nnayr]

Congratulations to you bro! Sometimes that happens to me whenever I don't have anything to do except thinking. I ask myself "What the heck I am doing? Should I continue this course or just find a suitable job for me and make my future now?". Then I always see situations like yours and it always uplifts my spirit. I have hundreds of questions about why I am doing this but I only have one answer in the end...continue to become a nurse!

Thanks bro for sharing such a wonderful story!:w00t:

[Kevin0507]

congrats!!!!