The RN Jobs Squeeze

The point is that unserved areas need to recruit in areas where students are having a a hard time finding a job.

Nursing executives need to spend the resources they use to recruit international nurses for domestic nurses.

Last the job market will recover.

just what did the second sentence mean????? We certainly do not need international nurses when there aren't jobs for our own graduates.

NURSING SHORTAGE..... Where?
Internally, it seems like a shortage when you are understaffed and the nurse patient ratio in nearly impossible. Yet, on the outside, many,many nurses unemployed. I graduated in May 09 and I am just about to give up on sending my resume out. There will never be a shortage. I'd like to know who thought it was funny to spread this rumor.
I settled for a job at a nursing home where 2 nurses and 3 aides are enough for 46 residents

The first sentence I understand, just what did the second sentence mean????? We certainly do not need international nurses when there aren't jobs for our own graduates.

I notice that you are a traveling nurse...most can not pick up and travel to where the jobs are...if you are offered an assignment in a hospital, I can assume that they had a shortage....

The nursing shortage is HERE...and will get worse. .. Retiring staff is not replaced, nurse to patient ratios are increased, No joke intended, but when staffing "numbers" include a ".5"...where exactly does one find half of a person??

There is, right now, NO nursing shortage. Perhaps there will be one in the future, but at this moment there is a surplus of unemployed nurses.

Retiring staff is not being replaced not because there is no one to take the position but because that's what management calls reduction by attrition. They have no intention of replacing the staff member who left.

Nurse/patient ratios are increasing not because there are no nurses to hire but because that's how management saves money.

It is all intentional. It is all being done by design. It is an act of bookkeeping. Nursing positions are being eliminated via accounting.

Multitudes of nurses turn up to apply for every open position they hear about. The majority of them wont even be considered, as hiring managers have so many applicants to choose from they can afford to be picky. It's murderous for a nurse, experienced or not, to get even a med/surg position nowadays because the competition is so fierce.

And by the way, staffing hours have been measured in projected FTEs for decades now. The phenomenon of 0.5, 0.25, 0.75, etc. in staffing demand is nothing new.