So today was quite a lazy saturday. I slept in until 11am and then I ate some breakfast. I worked out...yes exercise, it has done me well so far. I have been working out for two weeks now. I feel better, more energized and it gives me something to do for 35-45 minutes. Then I got online to find more nursing jobs.
After quite a bit of disappointments, I frustratingly typed: "why are hospitals not hiring new grads" into google and hit enter. To my surprise quite a lot of interesting articles and conversations came up. Apparently, with the recession, most hospitals don't want to hire new grads because we cost a lot of money, and training, and time. Overall, we are quite a nuisance to staff. It actually costs hospitals less to pay overtime to burned out nurses then to invest in fresh, not burned, new graduate nurses.
Then I found some site where people were blogging about where they could find a job and if they should go to nursing school. My findings for the places that will hire new grads were:
Upstate New York (no specifics, apparently nobody wants to say the names of the hospitals that are quote "still hiring new grads"--yeah I found this on two separate sites)
Rural places (but not Minnesota as a blogger begrudgingly and angrily posted)
Oklahoma
Texas
So I applied to Oklahoma City, OK, Tulsa, OK, and Midland TX. All of which start their pay 2-3$ less than anywhere over here in the East. Oh well, it's not about money anymore. I don't need money, I just want my one year of experience and then I will "get out". (one blogger wrote that you should "go to rural areas and states no one likes for one year and then get out")
How weird would it be if I got a job in Midland or Tulsa????? I am a city girl (or at least a girl of suburbia) not small town girl or boonies girl or scary country girl.....oh well God is placing me where I need to be!!!!
Just thought I would share.
Very interesting. It certainly would be totally different than planned to go to TX or OK. We are praying that God directs you to where He wants you. You are learning and growing through this whole process. Keep moving forward. I love you!
ReplyDeleteWe are praying for you, Kari! What an interesting thought though, to put in time in a less desirable hospital.
ReplyDeleteWow. Indeed, a job is a job, and an extreme move like that should prove very interesting! I'm excited to see what God has planned out for you. :-)
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