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

I moved 3 months ago into a large city and had no problem finding a job. I had 3 full time job offers within 2 weeks. Maybe its your inexperience.

um. duh! That's what we new grads have been trying to tell you. No one will give a new grad a shot right now. No one. I only know one girl out of about 50 that has a job. Not even the top grad in the class has a job. It's absolutely infuriating.

Is it really no jobs or is it, "I can't find the job I like near my house with the hours I want to work, and at the salary they were paying when I started school"?

There are 220 RN jobs listed on bay area craigslist. I can not believe that ALL of them require experience beyond the school clinical.

At GANS (Georgia Assoc Nursing Students) convention a few weeks ago, the recruiters discussed amongst themselves who is running a new grad preceptorship and who isn't. One single hospital said they would be. Its in Savannah, about 6 1/2 hours from my house.

Another hospital that is recruiting is in Tennessee, at least 1.5 hours from my house. Those are the two strongest leads I have for actual RN positions for new grads.

A psychiatric hospital about 1 hour and 20 minutes north of me is hiring techs.

Otherwise, no hiring outside of their own techs or scholarship recipients (but some hospitals don't plan to take all of those folks either). Does that help answer your question?

I think what the article fails to clarify is that it is a good market for EXPERIENCED nurses...but right now, hospitals are not looking to invest in new grads. They mostly want to hire experienced nurses because they don't have to do orientation for a long period. I heard orientation classes are expensive for hospitals to do.

It depends on where your experience is - ICU, ER and maternity(M/B, nicu and L&D) some psych, some home care. They do NOT want to orient us to work in those specialities either. Us old/experienced med/surg/tele/oncology nurses can go to UPS for a job. we can get per deim jobs- but per deim - we are cancelled more than we work. I am per deim- no benefits, $36/hr must commit 2- 12hour shifts in a 6 week schedule: and get cancelled for those 2 12 hour shifts

And when you get caught up in that per deim game- you can sign up for every day of the week- what ends up happening -you essential are 'on-call' with no pay, translation- every day you sign up for you call in to the hospital in 4 hour increments only to be told" we're cancelling for these 4 hours" call in for your next 4 hours- THIS REALLY SUCKS!!

I was answering the original poster's question, "If this article on yahoo is true, then why am I, as a new grad with a BSN, unemployed???"

If its such a no brainer, why did this thread get posted in the first place then? Didn't see you talking crap to them.

Nurses are here to stay that is a given, but so is the cashier position at McDonalds. But does that mean hospitals are beating down the door of anyone with RN behind their name? I think not.

I remember 4 years ago the medical section of the classifieds was 15 pages at least, with most of those being nursing positions. There were hospitals is states far away recruiting offering relocation packages and sign on bonuses not just for RNs but even for CNAs.

Yesterday the medical section was 3 columns. Nuff said.