Utah suffering severe nurse shortage

...and I'm gonna try Utah....

As far as travel nursing goes, another way to travel is to simply move to another state for a year. You can apply or a jub by phone or email, in areas where they are short of nurses, you can be sure you will find a job. I have travelled to two states that I wanted to visit and simply got my apartment first and then went job hunting. Both places paid better than my home city hospitals, and I was able to experience a whole new area for a year, sight see, see a different "culture".
There's lots of options out there for nurses willing to try something new.
I settled for a year 'cause that's how long the apt lease was, and informed human resources going in that I was there for a year. Their response was , ""We'd be glad to have you for a year.""

Go For It !

hey! That's exactly what I want to do! Just spend a year in Utah to learn a little bit more about the culture...I hope to find a job there!

La Martine.......... it is an awesomely beautiful state.

It would be a wonderful experience.

I have been a nurse {RN} for less than a year and here in VA I started at $22 / hr on days in and ICU. However I was an LPN for 13 before going back and getting my RN. Now due to the shortage and people just not appreciating nursing I am going to become a truck driver. I have done the research and I will make more after 2 years of experience as a truck driver than a nurse with 10 years. Dam I wish I could get my money back from school and use it for something better.

What a novel idea !! sounds great to me....I wish more people had the courage to really live their lives, to admit ....maybe they made a mistake, and just chuck it and start something entirely new.

So many cling hopelessly, and desperately to the one thing they know....get depressed.........take drugs for the cure....
when all they need is a new way of living.

People cling "for the insurance" etc. ....etc....

Lots of luck.

I lived in SLC, Utah for 5 years - just left this past January. I worked for the University of Utah. Last year I made $16.50 an hour. I have been a nurse for 7 years now - so that rate was for 6 years of experience. ICU/OR nurse. The real crime was that new grads were being hired on at $16.51 an hour. I took this problem to my manager - who understood my dilemma. But when she tried to take it further, all I ended up with was a raise to $16.97 an hour. So yes LOW PAY is a big problem in Utah. And yes it is a beautiful state - but I'm glad I don't live there anymore. The LDS influence was overwhelming for me - notice I said FOR ME. Others may not have experienced it as such, but I actually had patients ask to allow another nurse take care of them because I wasn't LDS, and I had fellow nurses preaching to me and doling out Books of Mormon. And I do think that oppression of women has something to do with the situation in Utah. LDS women are supposed to stay home and raise their families - and work outside of the home if they have to. And this comes straight from a coworker who was a staunch Mormon.

Pay sucks. I would not go there either. renerian

Here in Minnesota , Twin cities area the new grads now start off very close to 24.00 per hour they are trying to get people to become nurses. Since there is such a nursing shortage here they think the pay will attract people into the nursing field!!!! I find that great!!!

Looking at Utah's pay scale, all I can say is DUH! Is the nursing shortage there really such a mystery?