I am interested in emergency nursing or trauma nursing. What should I do fresh out of nursing school to improve my hireability and impress possible employers? I did get BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, NRP, and PALS.
If you are truly interested ED/Trauma you need some ER and trauma courses.
Look into the ENA CEN certification education - you cannot get cert without experience but you need the education. For trauma I highly recommend taking ENA's TNCC, or prehospital courses like PHTLS, BTLS.
Learn the mechanism of injury and the root causes of diseases. We only pay attention to the presenting symptoms. That helps but if you know those two items you can actually discover the real needs the patent has and make a real difference. By making a real difference you can keep that patient off the hamster wheel of our current symptom care system.
Additionally you need to get your meditation and shielding up and functional to keep yourself emotionally safe and avoid the ED nurse hard heart that turns patents into numbers, junkies, and aggravations.
Northwell Health has emergency room fellowships. I started mine as a new grad.
Get some experience.
I went into Trauma ED at a level 1 in Los angeles as a new grad! Get TNCC and ATCN! Your best shot is applying at a county hospital in your area that's a level one once you are ready!
TNCC, ACTN
