Need help from you guys, if you can. My girlfriend is SOL on the job hunt even though she has a FOUR YEAR BACHLORS DEGREE in nursing. She is going to take her Registered Nursing Exam next year and has to wait till then because of the application process. So she wants to get a part time job in the meant time as a Nursing Assistant or something in her field. Nobody will take her because you have to be a Certified Nursing Assistant in order to be one. K, get this, you can be a CNA within like 2 months by going to NIT or some trainning school and they can get a job, yet my gf has a bachlors degree in which took her four years to get, and they are denying her. So basically, if anybody can help or give us the right direction to get her a job, I would VERY MUCH appreciate it.
She should be able to work as an RN even if she didn't take the NCLEX. She'll earn a little less(much more than a CNA), but she can still work. Also, why is it going to take a year? Can't she take it at a testing facility the next day after she graduated? ADNs can do that, I'd imagine that a BSRN could too. BTW, where did she graduate from? Also, there is a bail out type test you can take if you only went to nursing school for a year, you can take that and be a CNA. The more I think about it, it doesn't make sense why she'd have to wait a whole year to become a nurse after she just got a BS in it. I can't imagine how that is possible.
Well, she grew up here in Houston but graduated from the Phillippines (long story...) last April and has to go through the process of going through the application to take the NCLEX and being an international student, it will take a longer process than normal (round 4-6 months). As for getting hired as a RN, we have been trying to get her a job since July and even went to the Chronicle's Nursing Job Fair and everybody we talked to wanted her to be an RN already and even some wanted a year of expierence.
Wow, there's always a nursing shortage. Even when other industries are laying people off, hospitals are almost always looking for nurses.
Ah, I see. You have a pretty unique situation. International students usually have a tough time finding jobs straight out of school coming to the US. There is all sorts of red tape and equvalency checks that have to be done. I wish I could help because the health field always needs people. Hopefully she can get a job soon and help us out. Good luck.
no doubt...I know several people that are doing the medical assistant thing just because that field is always looking for people. when my wife was in the hospital last year....seemed like everyone in the hospital was talking about how short-handed they were.
Thats what I was thinking whenever she went to go look for a job. But everybody we have gone to, even some connections we though we had, said that she needs at least some kind of certification. She thinks its a waste of time and money for her to get her CNA within 8 weeks, get paid a measley $7-$11 a hour for like 2-3 months then passes her boards after that to become an RN and I agree with her. Basically the only way I can see that she can get a job now is through connections.
I know how that is man. My wife graduated with a four year degree and it was a struggle for her to find anything. Since she's graduated she's taken two jobs, both of which are low paying, not challenging, and have nothing to do with what her degree is in (Major in math, minor in chemistry.) The job market just sucks these days. It's so bad that I'm on the verge of accepting a transfer to Oklahoma, just out of fear of being unemployed.
