Nursing: The 10 Hardest Jobs To Fill In America

I have often wondered something. If hospitals wanted patients, why wouldn't they advertise their average nurse to patient ratios. I mean schools advertise that way, childcare as well. If you wanted to get the most personalized attention while you were recouperating, wouldn't it seem you would go to a hospital advertising a 4 to 1 patient to nurse ratio rather than a 8 to 1??

not to mention be responsible with your license when you have students working under you. Alot more responsibility and accountability than the average math professor

RN2bMBAnext---Do you actually think hospitals are looking for patients? ER's are holding patients that are admitted, and some people actually get discharged from the ER holding area!! They have PLENTY of patients. They have just decided to run hospitals with a "skeleton nursing crew", so they can maximize profit while minimizing nursing salaries. The hospital can't advertise nurse patient ratios---because they don't follow nurse patient ratios, even when they are state mandated!! Theoretically, ALL hospitals in a state that already has nurseatient ratio rules should be running that way, so there is no reason for a hospital to "advertise" it. They have already figured out a way to avoid following these laws, too. Hospitals are a business now, much more than they used to be----they are run by blue suit and shiny shoes wearing MBA's who previously ran a car dealership or something like that. They are SO FAR REMOVED from anything that has to do with patient care, medicine or healthcare it is ridiculous.

I hope getting jobs for new grads start getting better!

I hope the job market improves for ALL NURSES, not just new grads or experienced nurses.

The more I think about this alleged "nursing shortage", the more I think about how untrue it is. When I was a senior in college, I started looking around for jobs before I graduated. I went to school in upstate New York, and I knew that I wanted to live in New York City. So, I applied to the NYC hospitals. Well, NYU was the first hospital that called me back. I had an "interview" over the phone, and I was hired SIGHT UNSEEN!!! They hired me right then and there, told me that they'd send me all the paperwork and stuff I had to give them, when I had to take the employee physical and when orientation began. There was a TRUE nursing shortage then. Which makes me stand by my observations of this "nursing shortage"----licensed nurses with years of experienced applying for vacant positions in hospitals, and not even getting a call back?? Advertisements in papers and magazines from hospitals touting a "New Grad Orioentation Program" and all this other crap goes completely against everything we are hearing. If hospitals were that desperate, they'd be jumping at these nurses, not putting up repeat vacancies on their websites.

Also, another big problem with today's society is that nobody even answers their phone anymore----everything goes to voice mail, and they call people back. So, it is possible for them to call back who they feel like calling back---and it isn't the nurses that are calling!! They want you to e-mail your resume---you don't even know if they received your resume, because when you try to call, in the rare event that someone answers the phone, all they say is that they will look at your resume and if they are interested they will call you back-----well, if they don't look to see if they received your resume, how can they look at it and call you back??? If you leave a voice mail, you can forget about getting a call back.

It sucks that the situation surrounding nursing is like this. I attribute it to non-medical people running the hospital----quality care has been replaced by quantity, and time is money.