CNN article on nurses and job growth

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CNN Money published several nursing articles this morning regarding the job shortage for new grads based on information they got from allnurses members.

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Since the recession, health care has been the single biggest sector for job growth, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get hired.

Registered nurses fresh out of school are coming across thousands of job postings with an impossible requirement: "no new grads."

It's a problem well documented by the nursing industry. About 43% of newly licensed RNs still do not have jobs within 18 months after graduation, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of Registered Nurses.

New grads have taken to posting their frustrations on allnurses.com, a social network for nurses.

FULL ARTICLE: For nursing jobs, new grads need not apply

A slideshow of nurses and their struggles:

  1. Where's this so called shortage?
  2. Nursing jobs post "no new grads"
  3. If only I could get an in-person interview
  4. Dear Obama, Please help the nurses!
  5. Even with experience, I can't find work
  6. I want to make a difference
  7. Online applications are rejected instantly
  8. I can only find part-time work
  9. We're competing with thousands

Thanks for all who took the time to respond. You can make a difference!!!!

The article is the most popular discussion on CNN right now!!

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Original thread requesting for help from CNN reporter can be found at:

New Grad Nurses struggling to find jobs - CNN Reporter wants to hear from you

Specializes in ICU.

Thank you for letting us know that the article came out! I've been waiting for it ever since Brian's post asking for new grads to share their stories.

How things have changed. I recently moved to a new state and went to a job fair to see what was available. I witnessed the same issue with new grads. Almost everyone there was a new grad. As someone with umpteen years experience I was offered positions in management even though my experience in those areas was not recent. It didn't give me a lot of comfort. Is it lack of clinical hours in nursing school these days?

I decided to start my own business in clinical skincare and so glad I did.

Just came from CNN and that article and spent a good hour replying to misinformed posters providing correct information and education. Do spend some time over there and post in reply to give correct information for CNNs readers and do it without emotion please! Just the facts Jack.

There are a lot of the usual posters who have no experience in the industry posting as well as those who stand to profit from encouraging people to enroll in their programs.

I am not kidding when I tell you that those who profit from this scam will be posting contrary and ridiculous posts because this is a threat to their scam.

Oh yes, and please tweet out the link.

Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Sadly, this shortage of nursing jobs for new grads is nothing new. Just yesterday, I was talking to a nurse who graduated from my program six years ago. Half of her class did not have jobs upon graduation despite going to a reputable BSN program...two years before the recession.Nice to see the truth finally coming to light to the public. Everytime I tell people I am in nursing school, they mention the big bucks and the wealth of job opportunities. I snicker on the inside at their ignorance.Great post, OP.

Thanks for taking the time to defend the article.

Hopefully the article will stay active for a few days.

Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

I am so sorry new grads are still going through this.

When I graduated in 2009, the economy had just tanked, and not many of my classmates got jobs in our large urban area. I am glad I wasted no time and moved to an undesirable rural area in order to start my career. There are opportunities out there for new grads - but many of them seem to be in undesirable places. Makes me think of a remote, rural tribal hospital I know of that is only hiring BSN grads with at least one year of experience - the market has gotten that fussy.

Specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.
Just read the article. Wish it came out a few months ago. I lost points on an assignment for saying there is a shortage for new grads. Apparently allnurses.com isn't a reliable enough source :)

School do not want their students to learn that there is no "nursing shortage" because it would decrease enrollment and drop their bottom line.

I've worked as an aide in an ICU for almost 2 years, and I'm 5 months away from graduating an accelerated RN school. I've got more clinical experience than most ADN programs have. I keep getting told to "apply early" in an attempt to secure a job prior to graduation.

I'm being rejected within the same day of applying. My applications aren't even being taken seriously, despite my excelling in a difficult program AND having worked in a critical care area for some time now.

I have no problem going for my BSN later (or sooner), but I have things that need paid for prior to continuing my education, and yet, it isn't looking promising that I'll be getting hired 'early,' if at all.

Specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.
I am so sorry new grads are still going through this.

When I graduated in 2009, the economy had just tanked, and not many of my classmates got jobs in our large urban area. I am glad I wasted no time and moved to an undesirable rural area in order to start my career. There are opportunities out there for new grads - but many of them seem to be in undesirable places. Makes me think of a remote, rural tribal hospital I know of that is only hiring BSN grads with at least one year of experience - the market has gotten that fussy.

Between student loans and paying bills, I would move to anywhere just to get a job and pay my bills.

Specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.

I liked Haley's idea, If hospitals do not want to spend the time and money training new grads, then maybe nursing school should change to accommodate the needs of the hospital so they will be more willing to hire them.

Makes sens, you can fulfill the state requirement for nursing and spend more time preparing for how you will actually work in the real world.

How do we keep this story trending on CNN?

What is wierd is I think that some of the general public thinks that new nurses who can't find jobs are holding out for high salaries. What a laugh I had when I read that. One post said new grads were holding out for 6 figure salaries as to why new grads are having trouble finding employment. :roflmao:

Also that new grads should take the lower bottom of the barrel jobs at a hospital and work up to a nursing job. There is another one that shows the confusion. Hey, A new grad nursing job at a hosptial is the bottom of the barrel! I think the other poster thought for example: get a job as a janitor and if you do good maybe they'll let you be an RN one day. LOL.

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