Are there hospitals hiring new RNs in Vegas?

I am a new grad as well looking for my first RN position. It is so frustrating. Does anyone know of any agencies that work with new grads for permanent placement? I am sorry to hear that so many of us are going through this situation, I hope something opens up for all of us soon.

If you take some time and go on allnurses.com and start to read threads in other states... you'll find that there are MANY new grads in MANY different states that cannot find jobs... no one will hire new grads because no one has the money to train new grads. It costs ALOT of money to train a nurse. -- Lisa ;-)

not NO ONE but only few will hire. im a new grad but luckily found a job.

spongbob.... where did you get a job at.. I'm moving there in 3 n weeks when my boyfriend get back from deployment.

The thing that sucks, and I actually had this confirmed by a recruiter....is that hospitals are hiring traveling nurses who of course are already experienced. Those, coupled with the older nurses who should have retired but didn't because they lost their 401K's in the downturn are taking the positions that would have been filled by us new graduates. I asked the recruiter, "but aren't you afraid that when the economy gets better, the traveling nurses will start traveling again and the others will retire?" She said, "Well, I AM!!" Which says that recruiters are worried about the fallout when things get better, but that the administrative pencil-pushers aren't. These idiots still haven't learned their lessons from the late 70s-early 80s, and the early 90s fiascos where they did the exact same thing in an economic downturn. Know what happened? Yeah, the economy got better, they lost these nurses back to traveling and retirement and were left with a short nursing staff and then started screaming at nursing schools that they weren't pumping out nurses fast enough. Ridiculous but true. Anyone wanna bet its gonna happen again?