Want to return to ER: is job hunting easier the second time?

[Recovering_RN]

Is it any easier to get a job the second time? It took me several months after I was fired and started in TPAPN to finally get a job. I was in the ER before and ended up getting a job in home health. I applied to several ERs who turned me down, that's why I went with the home health. I would really like to return to ER. If I wait until my 6 month narc restriction is complete, do you think any of the ERs would be more willing to hire me than they were when I was first fired from my last job and started in TPAPN?

I guess I'm hoping it will be easier when there's been more time that has passed, but I guess they'll still focus on why I left the ER, even if it will have been almost a year by then. What have your experiences been?

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

My experience, my stipulation did not allow home health, or critical care, which ER is, for mostly the same reasons that got you hear.....after some 28+ years, sobriety, I did successfully return to ER a couple years.....

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

My hospital ER hires monitoring program nurses once their key restriction is lifted. Our contracts do not state anything about no critical care. You might try putting feelers out for TPAPN friendly hospitals and go from there, assuming ER would fit your contract requirements.

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

Are you sure you want the stress of working the ER? I don't know about why you're in tpapn, but I do know I wouldn't put myself back in the ER if that's where I fell apart. I wouldn't take the chance on my sobriety.