I keep reading in post after post about the new grads who are having a horrible time finding jobs--nurses who are desperate and willing to work just about anywhere in any setting. Well I am in Rochester NY and funny thing is I am wondering if the new grads here are graduating and leaving NY.......cuz let me tell you. If you are able and willing to move there is work for new grads here. In hospitals. I just came accross this post today.
No experience required. Licensed by New York State to practice as a Registered Nurse. Must have passed NYS NCLEX examination prior to start date.
This post is from Highland Hospital in Rochester NY and they also have more. There are also jobs for new grads at other local hospitals here, as well as jobs for experienced nurses and a lot for nurse leaders and nurses managers. So Anyone who really wants a job, I wanted to pass along the word. There are Three major hospital systems in the area and lots of need for nurses. One even does a new grad Critical Care training program.
How much do they pay new grads in NY? I graduate in May and am willing to relocate from Ca.
Not sure to be honest but you could probably call and ask. It is definately less expensive to live here then in CA though. Yeah not as cheap of some other states but then CA. My fiance` actually moved back here to Rochester from Orange County CA and tells me about the housing costs.....how there her CONDO was like half a million and it was just a regular condo--not super fancy or anything. How she felt like she would never pay it off in her life time and had the change to buy a family home super cheap back in NYand did. Now we have no mortgage at all. So it is cheaper here to live if you put that into the fomula when you hear what the pay is. I would say give them a call. the number should be there on their webpage. Good luck!!
The hospital system I work for has a fairly new program for new grads...we've had a few nurses on my floor hired through it. If you're in the St. Louis metro area (or willing to relocate I guess) it might be worth checking out. Google "SSM futures" and click on the first result.
Well I emailed them for the heck of it and I already got an email back with a phone number to contact! Thanks for the lead! It's an hour and a half away, but if I could get a job I'd work it out!
This is funny because because at this moment I have about a foot of snow on top of about two inches of ice covering my driveway. My "driveway" is nearly a half mile long. In the morning I'm going to have to fire up the John Deere and clear this mess off. Now if the county would just come clear the road out of here it would be nice.
Where in Texas do you live? As my mom gleefully pointed up, Dallas got a heap of snow during this last snowstorm. But, snow is Texas is nothing like the mess we've been having up here since the day after Christmas. I can't even say mounds of snow..how about mountains. Getting a foot of snow EACH TIME is nothing to us..and it snows like every week.
I wish the county would clear the STREETS so we can have parking!
I don't know what the actual nursing market is like in Texas, but I recently accompanied a girl friend to a nationally renown cancer center in Houston, Texas. I just could not believe it-you cannot turn your gaze 20 degrees without spotting a hospital. Children hospitals, heart hospitals, rehab hospitals, women's health hospitals, it goes on and on. There are SO MANY hospitals in just this one small area of Houston. I have to think this would be a promising area for nurses.
Perhaps someone from Houston can elaborate.
There are also more nursing schools than you can shake a stick at, and most of the hospitals are hiring VERY few new grads, if they're hiring at all.
I'll be graduating in December with a 3.6 from a very good BSN program in the med center. I'm hunting for nursing home jobs because I really don't have much confidence in finding a hospital job.
It's funny because I HATE the snow and I live in Northern NJ. I'm trying to move down to Texas BUT I did find a critical care internship up in Rochester that I'm looking to apply to. So, I guess when you're desperate (or want to make certain to have SOMETHING lined up), you'll try anything.
Thanks for posting! :)
I live in Northern NJ too.......
BTW, if you are interested in visiting nursing, the VNA of NJ is hiring new grad BSN's.
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Not sure to be honest but you could probably call and ask. It is definately less expensive to live here then in CA though. Yeah not as cheap of some other states but then CA. My fiance` actually moved back here to Rochester from Orange County CA and tells me about the housing costs.....how there her CONDO was like half a million and it was just a regular condo--not super fancy or anything. How she felt like she would never pay it off in her life time and had the change to buy a family home super cheap back in NYand did. Now we have no mortgage at all. So it is cheaper here to live if you put that into the fomula when you hear what the pay is. I would say give them a call. the number should be there on their webpage. Good luck!!