Will I Have Trouble Finding A Job?

Sour Lemon · Mar 3, 2019

On 2/27/2019 at 10:27 AM, bella_ said:
Hi.
I received my license in 2016 and worked as an LVN for 3 months. I’m ready to go back but afraid that I will have trouble finding a job. Do you think I will have trouble securing a position in nursing since it’s been 2 and and half years since I worked as an LVN.

As an "old new grad", you will be at a disadvantage. How much of a disadvantage will come down to the job market in your area, why you left your first job after three months, and what you've been doing since then.

Matthew RN, MSN · Mar 7, 2019

3 months of experience and then an almost 3 year gap will look bad/undesirable to most employers. I suggest you find ways to highlight skills rather than work experience. You also need to have a good explanation for the gap.

You absolutely can do this, but expect the transition into the work force to be difficult. It is hard as a new-grad nurse to transition into a nursing job, the gap and amount of information you will have lost in the three years will make it worse.

Will you have trouble finding a job? Probably not, there is a severe shortage of LVNs(LPNs) in most areas. My town has traveling LPNs at the nursing home because there are not enough local LPNs. There are about three local openings for every graduate from our LPN program.

LatebloomerLVN · Mar 17, 2019

Hi Bella are you in Ca? You won't have a hard time getting a job. You can work in home health shift care or do hospice per diem continuous care they are always hiring. I know home health shift care with pt vent, trach or GT. They hire new grad now even without 1 year experience.