Over the past few years, there has been a real shift in our new hires. I have noticed that we are not seeing many experienced nurses coming through the door. This has resulted in many more new graduates being hired. I love the newbie RN's and their compassion, vigor as well as fresh perspective and ideas. However, I am growing more and more concerned that we are going to have more new graduates (RN's with less than 1 year experience), than we have experienced nurses.
How is your unit handling this? My unit has a total of 3 experienced nurses on the day shift. Our manager has hired a number of new nurses (all are scheduled to begin over the next 3 weeks). Once the new nurses get on board (and I have to say I am thankful they will be here soon as we are sooooo short staffed), there will be more new grad nurses than seasoned nurses. I for one am going to thank them for coming to work with us and hope they stay and become a part of the experienced core team. :roll
What is happening on your unit and how are you all dealing with it?