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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081211/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown

They have revised the US unemployment numbers, it is much higher than first thought.

Before you post, that there are still jobs and you hope retrogression is over. Please think.

These are my neighbors who don't have a job and may loss their homes.

That hospitals are hurting and nurses are also loosing their jobs.

The the US economy has changed and nurses are looking for more work ( second jobs) and nurses are returning back to the bedside.

The trend of importing nurses has stopped and their are no economic incentives for bringing in new nurses ( hospitals could get tax write offs this has stopped).

It is Christmas time, this is only November's number, my guess is December's will be higher. There are families attached to these numbers. How would you feel if over 1.2 million people is your country one month lost their source of income? At and probably to news will be worse!

You might want to check again because there might be a hiring freeze in PHoenix but one might not know it...I had no idea that there was a hiring freeze in our hospital until someone told me...If you look at the postings, there are jobs that are still posted but nobody from outside will be hired to fill those positions...They want to cram as many patients per RN/LVN/CNA and work the living dog out of until before they start hiring again...I'm not sure how long the hiring freeze will be in effect....Most of the desirable metropolitan areas are on a hiring freeze....I don't see many foreign trained nurses wanting to go for a job out in Maskogee (forgive me if I mispelled it) Oklahoma...

My hospital did that and never told anyone. Couldn't even transfer units within the hospital.

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You might want to check again because there might be a hiring freeze in PHoenix but one might not know it...I had no idea that there was a hiring freeze in our hospital until someone told me...If you look at the postings, there are jobs that are still posted but nobody from outside will be hired to fill those positions...They want to cram as many patients per RN/LVN/CNA and work the living dog out of until before they start hiring again...I'm not sure how long the hiring freeze will be in effect....Most of the desirable metropolitan areas are on a hiring freeze....I don't see many foreign trained nurses wanting to go for a job out in Maskogee (forgive me if I mispelled it) Oklahoma...

Which desirable metropolitan areas are you talking about?

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Please keep to topic.

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It all depends on the area that you work at. Some hospitals don't allow IP's anymore and for that reason...it goes for both foreign and local nurses. I wonder why that nurse from the Philippines is taking the boards in Minnesota when she lives in Florida...

It doesn't make sense to me either, unless she already planned to take it in Minnesota and then got recruited to Florida??

I also thought Florida requires foreign trained nurses to have 2 years of experience to apply also.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0464/SEC009.HTM&Title=->2008->Ch0464->Section%20009#0464.009

Florida is a nice state, it is on my lists of places I may want to move to. I prefer the east side though.

There must be some kind of loophole. A few years ago we were opening up a brand new unit and recruited six Filipino nurses, none of whom had taken boards. All but one passed the first time though and they were good nurses. But they worked as techs for months until they got their "sit passes" and could take boards.

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/081208/120808_strong_industries.html?.v=4&.pf=career-work

more unemployment news:lol2::lol_hitti:clphnds: or so they think

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Perhaps you should read the threads about grads not being able to find jobs, layoffs, and units that are closing in hospitals.

Perhaps you should read the threads about grads not being able to find jobs, layoffs, and units that are closing in hospitals.

sure:smokin::loveya:

Glad you found that article, it seems like Americans are going back to school to get these positions like the article pointed out.

Glad you found that article, it seems like Americans are going back to school to get these positions like the article pointed out.

im glad you read it to, coz i think its time for you to change the title of your thread. peace:clpty::hhmth:

I heard this story on the radio this am, the job growth is in pharmacists, nursing aides, health care accountants, admins no where did they mention nurses. Also RNs are seen as the most expensive positions therefore the last to be added.

Every article about nurses say there will be a need in the future, as this article mentioned there are plenty of qualified pre nursing candidates.

Please keep to topic.

OK but don't grass us up to Suzanne :)

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