usa hospital hiring direct without use of agency

[dylan101]

Hi

I am a community cardiac nurse specialist with 6+ years experience in ITU and 3 years experience in cardiology. All the agencies I have contacted all say that I would need to go back to ITU for at least 12 months to have up to date experience before they would consider me, but reluctant to do this because it would be a large drop in salary. However I am aware that in order to work in the usa I would have to go back to itu and am fully prepared to do this when I get there. Has any experience nurse applied direct to hospitals and been offered a job and sponsorship without this golden 12mths current experience.

I have passed my nclex and would appreciate anyone sharing their experience of contacting hospitals direct for sponsorship rather than agencies.

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Hi

I am a community cardiac nurse specialist with 6+ years experience in ITU and 3 years experience in cardiology. All the agencies I have contacted all say that I would need to go back to ITU for at least 12 months to have up to date experience before they would consider me, but reluctant to do this because it would be a large drop in salary. However I am aware that in order to work in the usa I would have to go back to itu and am fully prepared to do this when I get there. Has any experience nurse applied direct to hospitals and been offered a job and sponsorship without this golden 12mths current experience.

I have passed my nclex and would appreciate anyone sharing their experience of contacting hospitals direct for sponsorship rather than agencies.

Hello

I was a bit like you and told I would need experience. At the time I worked on a medical admission unit and not had surgery experience for many yrs. Was told to get surgery experience.Then met my now husband and put US on hold and got a job as a practice nurse. Decided to do it again and met up with a recruiter who came to the UK and no mention of needing acute experience but did assure them I had no problems in going back to work in a hospital. So it can be done. I would suggest you know where you want to live and get in touch with some of the hospitals and see if they would be interested in petition you to go to the US.

Best of luck

[suzanne4, RN]

What area has your recent experience been in?

[suzanne4, RN]

Also, where would you like to live, the US is quite large?