Nursing: One of the 6 Thriving Jobs that are Here to Stay???

where are they relocating to UFO? LOL

I really think it depends on your region as far as being an unemployed new grad goes. It makes me so sad to hear new grads are having trouble getting jobs! In southern Georgia, pretty much new grads are getting on from what I am hearing "through the grapevine", from new grads, friends, etc. I am not a new grad, and I will agree, this article is crap. I have been a RN almost 20 years. Even in management jobs I haven't even cracked $60,000 a year yet, barely $50,000. These people should be ashamed for publishing such baloney!

They don't care as long as they get their money!

Oh please. I lived in Roswell for 18 months about 20 years ago. Laugh if you want, but it's not a bad place to live, really. The UFO thing is just legend.....the locals have a great deal of fun with it.

Great weather. Nice people.

Okay, guys. This is a HUGE country. A lot of the nursing shortages talked about in things like that are in more rural parts of the country. I live in a small town in Texas, and our Hospital (which is a Level III Trauma Center and the only one for hours around) currently has openings for over 20 nurses. And they ALWAYS have a ton of openings. Unfortunately, most people aren't willing to move to small towns for nursing jobs. But that's where they are. So yes, there IS a shortage. Just not in the more widely populated areas.

Move, some areas are hiring despite the recession. There definitely is a nursing shortage, but some hospitals are prioritizing finances over patient care. I'm sure any working nurse on here can testify that their unit isn't really fully staffed. Around here there are MANY open jobs. We haven't seemed to be hit too terribly hard with the recession.

I'm preparing now to leave the state if I have to when I graduate RN. I will be putting my house on the market in January or February. I'm hoping to get into the LPN-RN bridge program that starts in May and graduate in April 2011. Who knows how long my house will take to sell at a decent price.

I don't really care where I go as a new grad nurse. I'll go out of the state, take a rural job or go overseas if I have to.

Lucky for me that I'm single and my kids are grown.

I was offered a job doing the H1N1 vaccinations, but the commute was too much since I'm also doing online classes.

Its pretty depressing to have to worry about finding a job upon graduation and suck up whatever money I'm going to lose on my house.

Never in my life had I imagined that at my age I'd being going backwards instead of forwards.

Nice to hear that things are looking bright for new grads in other states!

UGH I'm so glad someone posted this here and that others are finding it laughable! not that I don't think nursing is NOT "here to stay" but "thriving"? Well I frankly don't know of ANY job that is "thriving" right now, except, unfortunately, my current job working with people on State assistance helping them to find jobs... that being said, in my current field, I run across people wanting to attend Everest, Ross Medical, Sanford Brown, etc., allll the time, promising the quickest route to Nursing education (or any other healthcare field, or IT, whatever) and they most definitely charge the cost of a Bachelors degree at a University, if not MORE, for a 12-18 mo. program that may or may not be accredited. It's really awful! To make matters worse, some of these places will let students begin even if they don't have their GED and will let you "graduate" from their medical program and THEN obtain your GED before getting certified. Of course at this point you have already paid the $20000+ for the bogus degree. And the convenient ads and links when you are reading these types of articles online really make the articles a whole lot less credible.

The opportunity in the nursing market is relative. First, it depends on where you live; some areas of the country have more openings than others. Second, there are more openings for experienced nurses and for educators, which is where much of the deficiency lies. Third, comparatively, the nursing market is doing very well. It is true and sad that many nurses are having a hard time finding a job, but I can guarantee that they would have a much harder time finding a job if they were applying to: banks, insurance agencies, law firms, department stores, steel mills, autos plants, trucking companies, investment firms...