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

Great!Hopefully, this could somehow address the problem among new grad nurses!hopefully as a lot of new grads are really getting frustrated

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Very good overall and about time. However am sure many experienced nurses of a "certain age" would take exception to being deemed as "clogging up the system" by not leaving the profession.

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good thing, this problem has already been brought to the open!!"900,000 nurses over the age of 50 who will probably retire this decade" and yes not particularly encouraging, because what's the guarantee that they will actually hire new grads??

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Brian and Annalynn Kurtz hit a home run with these articles. There are so many comments under each story! Finally this topic is getting the spotlight it's needed for the last few years! Thank you!

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Very good overall and about time. However am sure many experienced nurses of a "certain age" would take exception to being deemed as "clogging up the system" by not leaving the profession.

It's our friend Dr Peter Buerhaus who said that. I say "friend" because I don't think there's been an article on the nursing workforce written in years where he did not figure prominently. What a dumb thing to say.

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Just got the link tweeted to the medico world by a pal of mine :)

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This article just scratches the surface of the problem,The MAIN problem is that hospitals don't want to pay the money to train a New Grad.

I agree, from looking at the article, most new grad nurses get jobs. I think the problem is most of the grads need a minimum requirement of time that they have worked and like what CraftyNurse said, these places dont want to pay to train.

I think on this site however, it has become a place to vent and people are more likely to share a negative experience than a positive one. There is still hope!

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Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.
Just got the link tweeted to the medico world by a pal of mine :)

Do you have the link to the tweet?

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Brian and Annalynn Kurtz hit a home run with these articles. There are so many comments under each story! Finally this topic is getting the spotlight it's needed for the last few years! Thank you!

If you look at the comments, there is an ongoing argument about Obama and national debt and stuff about Bush as well as gun rights. The comments aren't reflecting the article that much.

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A family member of mine posted this article to me on my facebook this morning. Good to know I'm not the only one out there, but I feel like i am. Many of my friends from nursing school (we all graduated in may 2012 with our BSN). It took many of us a few months to find jobs......here i am though, just passing my 8 months of graduation date and still no closer to a job than i was when i entered nursing school. I graduated 2nd in my class, in the national honors society of nursing, in my school's nursing honors program, did my own senior research EBP project, had that coveted externship my summer going into my senior year and countless other resume worthy accomplishments. I've had MAYBE 5 interviews since i've graduated and nearly all of them ended with "well we are looking for someone with experience" HELLOOOOO why did you offer me an interview, get my hopes up, then crush them. I am having a hard time finding a job or even just getting a call back for an interview. nearly ever single application says "minimum of 1 year of experience" so i figure "what the heck, Ill apply anyway." BUZZZ 3 seconds later i get a notification that my application was submitted BUZZZ no sooner than i'm deleting that e-mail that another comes through denying me from that position because i don't have the required experience.

If a person and not a computer would lay eyes on my resume I feel like I would have a much better chance at landing an interview or a job. As soon as that not experience is seen then POOF away I go. My externship, outstanding academics, volunteer hours, etc is never taken into consideration. I am just about fed up with it. Before graduating all the professors ever told us every day is "you will be so desirable. take your boards ASAP. being a BSN-RN you will be hired. " we'll its january 14th and I'm still not hired. I was in no way prepared before i graduated at how hard it'd be as a new grad to get experience or a job. I am so frustrated it's not even amusing anymore.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
If you look at the comments, there is an ongoing argument about Obama and national debt and stuff about Bush as well as gun rights. The comments aren't reflecting the article that much.

Public comment sections often have a percentage of zealots who want to further their personal agenda or incite little mini-feuds with other commenters. Overall, with upwards of 2,000 comments so far across the board, combined with CNN's broad reach -- this is a fantastic thing. I think most of us are happy this has finally made it to the "front page" after flying under the radar for at least two years.

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I am really disturbed by this article, to the point that it brings me to tears. I am a second degree student. Or rather a third... I have a bachelors and a masters in music, and that field ultimately failed me as I never found a job. I am about to apply to nursing school and I am terrified I am going down the same path. I am still in debt from both degrees, almost 30 and this makes it seems like my life will go nowhere even though I thought I was making a good choice. I am so depressed.

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