Nurses Having Difficulty Finding Employment In Some Areas

Hmmm...how useful was that article? How about a few tips on job searching or making yourself more attractive as an employee to interviewers? Thanks for posting it. It is always interesting how the media can make a long story out of common knowledge.:b

Last line "short from begging I dont know what Im suppose to do." I have begged it doesnt work.
Tricia RN

Ironically the name of the article above this is "New York City's Council Addesses Nursing Shortage."

I'm so sick of reading articles about nursing shortages. I talk to people on the street and they say, "Oh you're a nurse must be nice to have job security" and I don't even really want to talk about it at all. I'm just tired of discussing it/reading about it.

This article should be called "Nurses Having Difficulty Finding Employment In ALL Areas"...

Although this article brings no comfort to me, at least it validates what many of us have been trying to explain to the countless people who cannot believe it would ever be difficult to find a job as a RN.

This article also says something about there continuing to be many unemployed nurses into 2010. Well, all that really means is that us new graduates will be out of school for a year or more before we can find a job and will not have a clue in hell what to do once we are actually allowed to step back inside a hospital. Our confidence is low enough being a new grad, we don't need to sit around out of nursing school for years while we wait to get a job. Plus we will have 2 or 3 times more new grads trying to get those jobs once they become available again. I think this problem is going to take quite a long time before it resolves fully.

"This article also says something about there continuing to be many unemployed nurses into 2010. Well, all that really means is that us new graduates will be out of school for a year or more before we can find a job and will not have a clue in hell what to do once we are actually allowed to step back inside a hospital. Our confidence is low enough being a new grad, we don't need to sit around out of nursing school for years while we wait to get a job. Plus we will have 2 or 3 times more new grads trying to get those jobs once they become available again. I think this problem is going to take quite a long time before it resolves fully."

I totally agree with you Tuttle13.
Also I have found that rural areas are not hiring new grads either...they cannot afford to.
Losing my mind but optimistic.

I am a RN in a very rural area (central wyo)....up until about 4 months ago we had several vacancies on our M/S floor but are now fully staffed d/t several new grads coming here from other states because they couldn't get jobs in their locales.

Just wanted to add a recent experience. Jobs are getting fewer and fewer in many areas for new grads as well as the more experienced RN. As this is happening, the older nurse is getting squeezed out by the younger ones. Just this week I learned that I might have uterine cancer. I made the mistake of telling a co-worker who told this new LPN grad who wanted a position at our facility. Through a series of manipulations, exagerations and lies about my health, I was asked to leave my RN position and this new grad will be taking my place. I was told that it was for my health----HA! Now, I am unemployed, no benefits and angry. The kicker, I can do nothing about it!! Hospitals, LTC facilities and clinics no longer respect nurses--experience, education, proven skills mean nothing to the beauracracy that now runs nursing. What has happened to this profession? I once was so proud and thrilled to be an RN. Now, I am saddened by this new breed of nurses that are greedy narcisists.

I am sorry to say that I saw this coming more than 2 years ago after working in the hospital for more than 30+ years. I decided then that I was going to be pro active and look towards other areas of nursing. I found a job in the plasma industry as a medical supervisor. I make more than I did in the hospital and each quarter get a productivity bonus. While it is different in that you have to look at things a little more towards manufacturing standards you are still using your nursing skills everyday. You must be very detail oriented like to do assessments and have the confidence to make decsions on your own you would probably do well in this industry. Sometimes you have to look outside the usual work environment.

Most employers are cutting back on staff, expecially due to the decrease of benefits the state is willing to pay for... THANKS to Patterson (NY)
And in Nursing, we are so often understaffed, as it is, not good!