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Mar 12, 2009 09:53 AM

To NJ Nurse Recuriter and Nurse Manager!

by nap12

This is a thread geared towards each and every nursing HR staff member. I have been applying for a very long time, I have been ignored, laughed at, pushed away, left without a follow up, and just simply denied. I'm going to change using "I" and replace it with "We". We are new graduate registered nurses. We are going to make the NEXT level of nurses better. If you don't interview us and you don't give us a shot than how do you improve your chances to increase care? Let's use the current influenced economy as an example. Once the American citizens stop spending and start saving, how are the jobs being paid for? how are companies making profit? People are stopping because they are not confident to spend. Same question if the hospitals ignoring new grads. The hospitals are reducing new grad confidence by ignoring us. Increase the moral by at least taking time to meet with us. We spent A LOT of time for this moment and the moments are short lived by the fate of health care HR denial. Spend the time to meet us please! We should have to beg to get interviews, we shouldn't have to call 100 times, this is straight forward. We aren't a sales rep trying to get niche with a company. We want to help people, we want to gain valuable experience, we want to learn from experienced nurses.

Increase the moral by reading our NEW GRAD resumes, give us a call to say you read it. Maybe, just maybe you will meet someone who is more determined than a veteran nurse! Don't let us down because we are New Grads, don't make us wait because we are inexperienced. What could go wrong by dialing our numbers and letting us know the truth about the hiring process? Maybe you won't have to work as hard to ignore our 100 calls, 300 applications, and 50 faxes. You may see that communicating is better than ignoring!

Thank you!


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Old Mar 12, 2009, 10:19 AM

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Gosh, I swear that I wrote this!!!! Going through the same aggrevations you are!
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Old Mar 17, 2009, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by nap12 View Post
This is a thread geared towards each and every nursing HR staff member. I have been applying for a very long time, I have been ignored, laughed at, pushed away, left without a follow up, and just simply denied. I'm going to change using "I" and replace it with "We". We are new graduate registered nurses. We are going to make the NEXT level of nurses better. If you don't interview us and you don't give us a shot than how do you improve your chances to increase care? Let's use the current influenced economy as an example. Once the American citizens stop spending and start saving, how are the jobs being paid for? how are companies making profit? People are stopping because they are not confident to spend. Same question if the hospitals ignoring new grads. The hospitals are reducing new grad confidence by ignoring us. Increase the moral by at least taking time to meet with us. We spent A LOT of time for this moment and the moments are short lived by the fate of health care HR denial. Spend the time to meet us please! We should have to beg to get interviews, we shouldn't have to call 100 times, this is straight forward. We aren't a sales rep trying to get niche with a company. We want to help people, we want to gain valuable experience, we want to learn from experienced nurses.

Increase the moral by reading our NEW GRAD resumes, give us a call to say you read it. Maybe, just maybe you will meet someone who is more determined than a veteran nurse! Don't let us down because we are New Grads, don't make us wait because we are inexperienced. What could go wrong by dialing our numbers and letting us know the truth about the hiring process? Maybe you won't have to work as hard to ignore our 100 calls, 300 applications, and 50 faxes. You may see that communicating is better than ignoring!

Thank you!
Thank you for being my advocate, going through the same thing here in NJ, goodluck to all the new grad rn's
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Old Aug 13, 2009, 03:13 AM

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Oh I could not agree more!
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Old Aug 13, 2009, 10:29 AM

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I am soooo sorry you all are having to experience this. You are caught in a horrible situation. I hope things change for the better - quickly.

That being said -- I want to step up and defend HR & Nurse Managers. They are not in the driver's seat here. Each facility has a position control proces that is directly tied to patient volume and overall financial performance. Each department has a specific number of positions. Many hospitals also have specific guidelines on the ratio of inexperienced:experienced nurses in any one department. Managers cannot hire if they have no open positions.

This leaves the HR folks in a bind -- should they accept applications when they are not hiring? There is of underlying (federally mandated) paperwork that has to be completed for applications even if they don't even get to the interview stage. Most HR departments have also been downsized, so they don't have the resources to take care of a lot of unnecessary work... so they just don't accept applications until they need them.

The real culprit is the economy. We're all in the same boat here. Most of us old-timers have been through this type of 'downturn' before, and know how awful the outcome can be. My heart just breaks at the thought of losing a generation of nurses because they had to turn away from nursing before they even get a chance to start their careers. There could be huge negative consequences not only for our profession, but for health care as a whole.

I haven't been keeping up with all the 'healthcare reform' blather - but I would bet that it doesn't have any 'stimulus' for hospitals who hire new graduates or jobless new grads who are stuck with student loans they can't repay. That could make a real difference in the immediate future - otherwise, we have no choice but to wait it out and hope everyone can make it through.
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