A Sign of the Times? We're hiring!

[Tait]

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I have recently discovered that our hospital is SEVENTY FOUR nurses short, so the hiring process has begun again and new grad classes have been doubled from fifteen to thirty persons for each session.

I know winter is a busy time in most hospitals but I wonder what this means for the future.

I am not much of a speculator, and tend to be a "deal with it as it comes" kind of person so it should be an interesting remainder of the year.

Is anyone else seeing the hiring freezes drop and the pendulum start to swing in a different direction in their facility?

Tait

[bill4745, RN]

I've looked at the job openings web sites of a few hospitals here in the north Delaware/Philadelphia area and there is a small increase in ads, including some GN internships.

[meandragonbrett]

We are still hiring but only those who are experienced.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

My workplace, a nursing home, is continually hiring due to a high employee turnover rate. Then again, many new grads are not invigorated by the idea of working in a nursing home.

In many regions, the nursing jobs that do become available tend to be in areas that many new grads deem generally undesirable (long term care, med/surg, acute rehab, etc.).

[tigkaskit, BSN]

I don't know about the rest of my hospital, but my unit is doing lay offs. And being new to the unit, I know I'm at an increased risk for being let go.

[Work in Progress]

I have been working at a facility for two years as a CNA/Nurse Intern with the promise that I would have a job after graduation. I found out last week that it will not be happening due to hiring freezes for new grads. The only hospital in the area that is hiring new grads has basically promised all of the positions to their nurse interns. They are still accepting applications and holding "interviews" but the positions have already been promised to their interns.

[juliaann]

My ICU manager was giving a new grad interviewee a tour of the unit yesterday. :)

[JenRN30, BSN]

I moved to where I am now because I couldn't find a job in the same state where I went to school. People here don't even know about the problem new grads are having finding jobs! It's crazy! There are tons of new grads here from all over the country, and we're still hiring :)

[Lizzy88]

JenRN30 we are you at?

[ItsTheDude]

recent hiring changes, NO.

we're still basically only hiring nurses with 1+ yr experience, new grads have been SOL for a year or so now. there is a national stockpile of new grads with no exp getting bigger and bigger.

honestly, i don't see the national stockpile of new rn's with no exp being absorbed anytime soon, it's going to a take many years if it ever happens.

the nursing schools are spitting out more and more newbies, but there are fewer and fewer jobs for them, simple math = stockpile buidling.

[lisamc1RN, LPN]

We are hiring. We had a small (2 months) period where we weren't hiring. We are a growing company, though. I work in hospice. However, because I'm close to getting my RN and will have to "plead my case" to my DON as to why I don't need to go somewhere else for clinical experience as an RN for a year, I spent a lot of time yesterday looking around northern Ohio hospitals, and I found several that I have never seen jobs posted for RN positions at that now have them! It was so exciting! Almost every hospital site I went to had positions open, and only a few of them required experience. Yay!

[Jules A, MSN]

We are hiring, but we've been hiring all along.

Yup, we've hired 5 new grads in the past 6 months. 4 are great, 1 not so much.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

We're not hiring, and in fact are telling about 5-6, sometimes more, people not to come in for their next shift.