What should I do?

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Hey everyone,

So I graduated from nursing school last semester and have been looking for jobs. It has been a whirlwind of emotions. I just received an offer for a LTC. The base rate is on par with the area, but the differentials and benefits are not great. I also had an interview for a dream position. The manager emailed me and said that they would be happy for me to the join the team, but she has to make sure that there is a spot available for HR. I know for a fact that if there isn't one available now (though there is a job application in review status) there will be one within a month as I talked with a staff member who is leaving the area in a few weeks.

I also have another interview coming up for a new grad residency program at a small hospital on Tuesday.

At this point, I don't know what to do. Should I just accept the nursing position at the LTC? Wait to hear back from my dream job? Interview for the new grad residency program?

I feel overwhelmed, angry, depressed and desperate.

If I go with the nursing home, I feel like that it is death to any potential job in an acute care hospital and career advancement. At the same time, I don't want to accept a job and then turn around and quit within six months!

What would you do?

Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.

I understand how you are feeling. Just wanted to say that first. Applying for nursing jobs can be a kick in the gut on many levels. But it looks like you are soon going to breakthrough and this will just be an unpleasant memory.

If I were in your shoes I would not take the LTC job. It's just too far away from everything you want. I would DEFINITELY go on the interview at the small hospital and consider taking that job if offered. It is in a hospital, even if it is small and it is a new grad residency which could bring you excellent learning experiences. I know you want the dream job and I hope you get it. But in the event that you don't, remember that you can work at a different hospital for a year or two and then apply at your dream location and have a better shot at getting the job. Best wishes!

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.
I'm sorry, I can't sympathize with you. This is how I felt when I didn't have a job out of school and couldn't put food in my fridge, and wasn't sure how I was going to pay my rent.

You live at home with a savings and no bills, with a job offer to boot. Either take the offer and stop complaining or be glad you are very fortunate to have minimal responsibilities and can hold out until you get your dreaaaaaammmmm offer.

Yikes! I like direct, but not brutal.

I picture the OP from your prospective, and I can see how you see it.

I'll admit the "I'm a new student and I don't know which of 10 job offers to choose", threads are annoying to me.

For that reason, I usually glance and go.

Specializes in LTC.

Do not take the LTC job. IMO, with your attitude towards LTC, it is best that you don't. Hold out for the hospital job.

Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

After working many LTC jobs, don't. Just don't. Wait to hear from a hospital.

Specializes in Trauma, Orthopedics.
Yikes! I like direct, but not brutal.

I picture the OP from your prospective, and I can see how you see it.

I'll admit the "I'm a new student and I don't know which of 10 job offers to choose", threads are annoying to me.

For that reason, I usually glance and go.

The OP needs to understand she is no more deserving of these amazing dreaaaaaammmmm positions than anyone else, and no "less deserving" of the "horrible LTC" positions. As seen in her other posts, she struggles to understand this concept. Maybe it would benefit her to understand that if her poor entitled attitude shows in interviews, it is probably hindering her.

A grown nurse schooling another nurse over something inconsequential is equalling annoying.

Where does the lack of sympathy come from? How about just being neutral?

Two camps in nursing.

Nurses are understaffed and work in unsafe conditions.

Nurses should just be grateful they can get an understaffed unsafe job.

The world needs a lot of things, nurses needing to understand how lucky they are to have 50 patients isn't one of them.

Since you live at home and your Mom doesn't mind you shouldn't take a job that you feel is so beneath you and wait for that dream job. Why would you want to work at a place that you obviously don't want to. Say no and let someone else have the job who doesn't have it like you do and doesn't consider LTC to be beneath them.

As seen in her other posts, she struggles to understand this concept. Maybe it would benefit her to understand that if her poor entitled attitude shows in interviews, it is probably hindering her.

LOL-that's exactly what I told her in one of her other threads about the subject. There's a lot of people looking for jobs PERIOD who don't have the luxury of living at home and a savings account. They live paycheck to paycheck and are at the doorstep of being homeless. They will take any job that comes along as long as it puts food on the table and pays the rent. They have families to worry about. The OP needs to stop feeling sorry for herself-she has it pretty good IMO.

Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

I wouldn't take a job I don't want. I don't even apply for jobs I don't want. Simple as that.

Good luck with the other interview/offers.

Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

I haven't accepted the job offer, guys.

The OP may have a posting personality that's not endearing but getting her education prior to having kids and debt was a sound plan.

Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
The OP needs to understand she is no more deserving of these amazing dreaaaaaammmmm positions than anyone else, and no "less deserving" of the "horrible LTC" positions. As seen in her other posts, she struggles to understand this concept. Maybe it would benefit her to understand that if her poor entitled attitude shows in interviews, it is probably hindering her.

Did I say that I was more deserving? No.

But the LTC working conditions are horrible per every experienced nurse I have talked to. I have taken care of patients who have come from nursing homes due to neglect. I would never but my loved one in a nursing home.

Am I entitled? Maybe. But I was told some ******** that hard work would bring rewards. I put myself in through nursing school working two jobs. I got my BSN and I worked as a nursinf assistant and received great performance reviews. I am entitled to feel what I am feeling.

If my attitude was so awful and it showed then why was hired the very next day after a fifteen minute interview? My ****** attitude must not have been too off-putting for to be offered a job and to have an informal offer in the hospital.

It amazes me how people like to talk down to my generation when your crowd was able to get a job for much less education and years sacrificed and for better benefits. Try being a new grad with a diploma today.

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