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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an RN.  The best advice I can give a new nurse is to get experience.  She should get a job as a tech and work in the department and hospital that she is targeting for employment in the future.  We hire our techs preferentially when they graduate nursing school. Even 10-12 hours per week is extremely valuable experience and will give her an "in."

She should select a program that is affordable and respectable.  It's cool that you can study nursing at Hopkins, but it doesn't give you a huge leg up as a practicing RN.  If you have to pay full price, it isn't worth it.  A respectable state school BSN program is her best choice.  She should look around carefully for programs with PhD or DNP qualified instructors and happy(ish) students.  (Nursing school is intense like engineering school is, so look for students that are relatively happy.)

And jobs are not a big deal.  Major metropolitan markets on the East and West coasts are more competitive.  But smaller markets in Texas and the Midwest go begging. The pay isn't great, but it's fine to go to one of those markets and get two-three years of experience before going elsewhere to make money. Once you have experience, you are likely to find a job in any market without difficulty.  And you can travel then, which pays really well.  [/quote]

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