What Do I Do With 8 Months Experience?

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Specializes in ICU.

I started as a new grad in an adult ICU 7 months ago. My husband just got orders to Iraq and I've decided to move home to Phoenix with my parents so my babies and I aren't insanely lonely. I've always wanted to do NICU and I thought this would be a good chance to switch. But my question is, what am I? I'm not a new grad anymore, but I don't have enough time in to really be experienced. How does orientation work if you aren't a new grad? Silly question, but I just kind of want to know if I'm marketable, you know?

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.
I started as a new grad in an adult ICU 7 months ago. My husband just got orders to Iraq and I've decided to move home to Phoenix with my parents so my babies and I aren't insanely lonely. I've always wanted to do NICU and I thought this would be a good chance to switch. But my question is, what am I? I'm not a new grad anymore, but I don't have enough time in to really be experienced. How does orientation work if you aren't a new grad? Silly question, but I just kind of want to know if I'm marketable, you know?

Phoenix is booming with nursing jobs......but you just can't walk into a NICU. You will have to start like a new grad in NICU. I think you will be marketable in adult ICU but will require a little longer orientation than an experienced nurse, but less than a new grad. Start applying online to hospitals ASAP before the new grads grab the positions.

Best of luck

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm moving out there the last week in April. Is it too soon to apply yet or should I be hunting now?

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.
I'm moving out there the last week in April. Is it too soon to apply yet or should I be hunting now?

Now, then do telephone interviews. New grads will be applying by the last week in April

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Specializes in ICU.

Hey, thanks. I'll get on it. What are you doing up in the middle of the night? I'm at work. Yipes, don't tell my boss. SLOW night!

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Specializes in tele, stepdown/PCU, med/surg.

I just moved to Phoenix from the Seattle area. Nursing jobs EVERYWHERE in Phoenix, you will have your choice. I work at John C Lincoln North Mountain.

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