What I would do if I wanted to become a New York City nurse again from scratch. Number one, if I was graduating from high school, I would go straight into a nursing program. But if I was already in college and already had a degree, I would apply to an accelerated nursing program. I would cut every body off except for your support system so that I can make sure that I'm studying and doing everything I need to do. Now, after locking in and passing nursing school, I would download Archer before taking the NCLEX. The reason why I liked Archer better than any other studying hack for nursing school is because the Archer questions way more similar to the NCLEX than other apps like UWorld. I know this for a fact because when I took the NCLEX, I passed in the minimum amount of questions. I also had friends that had both Archer and UWorld and they all preferred Archer better. While studying for the NCLEX, I would do practice questions every single day. I think I did like 85 question tests twice a day and looked at all the remediation. I would also go over videos and PowerPoints of topics that I didn't really understand. Now, after passing the NCLEX, that's when I would apply to nursing jobs. I personally wanted to work in a specialty, so I would do that again. I would apply to only specialty jobs. The way I would apply to jobs is either reaching out to recruiters on LinkedIn, I would apply on indeed, and I would go to hospital sites themselves. Before I did all of this, I would have made sure that my resume was banging when I was applying to these jobs. I actually have this link in my bio. If you guys need it while job hunting, I would have that as well. Now, when I started getting job offers, I would do interview questions at home. I have my family members pretend to interview me and I would also watch YouTube videos about interview questions so that I'm just getting the hang of it because I was already nervous going in and I want to make sure that I'm well prepared. Now, after doing all of this and getting my job offers, I would pick which job makes the most sense to me. Obviously, pay is important, but you also want to think about benefits that the job offers, the shift, is it a shift that you like? And distance. You want to think about the distance as well because you do not want to be working at a hospital that's an hour or two hours away from you, just because they pay $10,000 or $20,000 more when you could work at a hospital that's way much closer to you. So I'd factor all these things in and then pick a job that was the right fit for me. And that's everything I would do again if I wanted to become a New York City nurse from scratch. Love you and I mean it. Bye babes.
