Well, so much for people thinking they should train as nurses...

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kitler53 said:
not sure about that. well, i have 2 friends who are nurses. they change jobs every 4 months or so because at any given time they have 2 offers and they keep getting better and better deals. seems like a lot of demand here in chicago.

Same thing here for my fiance. She is staying at her job currently because she was promoted to nursing supervisor, so she wants to get at least a year or two under her belt in that position before thinking about hopping somewhere else.

The problem is that people expect that they get out of school and this great paying job is just sitting there waiting for them. It isn't like that. My fiance got her job because unlike the rest of her class she made sure she put in her applications before she even graduated, went in and did some volunteer stuff to get the hang of things and then by the time she graduated she was ready to jump right in. She got her experience for working in pediatrics and it cost the practice nothing.

Another thing is for some reason these RNs avoid nursing homes. Around here they are ALWAYS hiring, but these RN expect to just hop right into a hospital job. Those jobs aren't there for a nurse fresh out of school.

Go into something else, gain experience, then try for the higher up jobs.

 

I also know that my sister in law works at Stony Brook University Hospital as an RN and shortly after she was hired they no longer hired RN directly out of school and for good reason too. They have a labor union there for the nurses and I can't even begin to explain how much she takes advantage of it and if wasn't for the union she would have been let go already.

She was supposed to work on Christmas Eve because she got someone to cover her Christmas day shift. Of course she didn't feel like going, so she didn't. I asked "Won't you get in trouble?", to which she responded "I'm in a union, i'll be fine." So she gets paid $40/hour and works how she wants. I sure wouldn't want some straight out of school brats doing that.