Answers from 100 nurses needed: Which state has the most nursing shortage? - Page 5

I'm finishing up RN program in 2 months. From what I'm seeing in all of the hospitals, is Utah is over flooded with RNs. There are a ton of hiring freezes within hospitals and very few actual postings on openings with hundreds to sometimes thousands of qualified RNs applying for each position. This is not a good state to move to if you're planning on relocating for a RN job. I'm planning on relocating out of this state as soon as I graduate.

NOT true...South east Florida the job market is very tight. I don't know about the north part of the state or the west coast...the nursing schools are turning out new grads faster than ever and way too many for the number of available positions. You see positions posted but that's b/c the hospitals have to keep a certain number of ads..it doesn't mean they are hiring. Again that is the game the hospitals play.

BTW....these small for profit nursing schools have to stop fueling this "nursing shortage" propagana and continue to lure in these unsuspecting souls and turn them out in record numbers..after charging them an arm and a leg for school...and telling them that the hospitals will be lining up for them at graduation and begging them to work for them..meanwhile...months later...no job.
For example, 10 years ago, in the county I live in, there were 2 nursing schools...now there are 8..... Gee Whiz...do the math...with the economy so poor and fewer nurses retiring and all of these new nurses entering into the equasion....this equals NO NURSING SHORTAGE in South Florida

Don't know about Tucson, but the Phoenix-area does not have many job openings.

I am so curious, the responses that I read were from 2008 except the last two to three responses. I am curius about the job market for all states. I am open to relocation. Will be graduating next year. I am NY and I believe the "nursing shrotage" is BS. Excuse my attitude, but like everyone stated, the hsopitals have to show that they are recruiting but they usually are not hiring or they hire internally. It didn't take my HR experiece to notice this but ti definitely shined a "light" on why hospitals place unecessary hiring ads...

I think it is the same here in Michigan.

No one here has mentioned the DC metro area. I have found it to be one of the areas in the Eastern coast with a decent amount of nursing openings. Many of the hospitals around here are unionized which drives the salaries up.

Vegas is the same way, masses of new nurses spilling out into a dead economy.

I would search "RN new grad" at indeed.com or similar site but don't put in a specific city...I did this and it seems TX and midwest cities have new grad hiring.

I think the proper question on this thread should be: which state has the least number of nurses flooded in their market...?

As you can see from the majority of the answers so far on this thread (and if you search the dozens of other similar posts in related threads) it becomes clear that there is no longer a national nursing shortage.
There is thread after thread about new grads that can't get hired...again...the question is..not where is the shortage...but where is the smallest overload, or the greatest chance of getting a job.

Not Northwest Wisconsin--boatloads of new grads and very few jobs.

Where? Because there are some RN new grads that would love to know. To my knowledge California new grads are having one hell of a time getting an interview nevertheless a job in acute care.