Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

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Does anyone know of any hospital that are currently hiring new grads without any experience? I graduated May '09, and it's so hard finding a job without experience. Thanks.

Central and Eastern KY still has a nursing shortage. Lexington's St Joe and UK are both hiring New Graduates.

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What do you mean they´re not hiring New Grads?

But I thought there was this HUGE Shortage, and NO MATTER WHAT, you will always have a job.

Could you please elaborate? Why someone who would apply to 500 jobs and not be working in the Nursing Field?

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What do you mean they´re not hiring New Grads?

But I thought there was this HUGE Shortage, and NO MATTER WHAT, you will always have a job.

Could you please elaborate? Why someone who would apply to 500 jobs and not be working in the Nursing Field?

Since Feb 2008, hospitals have decreased the amount of new grads they are hiring in many states. Just type in new grads in the allnurses search box and you see all the threads of new grads telling their stories. There is a shortage, but due to the recession, nurses who left the field starting coming back which has allowed hospitals to decrease their hiring of new nurses. It takes at least $100,000 to train a new nurse and hospitals don't want to spend the money. There are thousands of new grads out of work all over the country. It's really sad how short sided hospitals are right now, they don't even care about what they are doing to the future of health care, they are just looking at how much money they can save now.

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What do you mean they´re not hiring New Grads?

But I thought there was this HUGE Shortage, and NO MATTER WHAT, you will always have a job.

Could you please elaborate? Why someone who would apply to 500 jobs and not be working in the Nursing Field?

You need to do a little research on the current job market in your area. The shortage is for experienced nurses, there are a lot of places that are not willing to pay to train new grads. It is regional, but the regions that are not hiring new grads are forcing their new grads to look elsewhere, which in turn is making new grad jobs super competative in the states that do train them. It is expensive to train a new grad nurse, so a lot of places are just cutting that out of the budget. In my area the "shortage" seems ot be self imposed. They post openings for 5-10 years expererience only and then force the floor to work short saying they can't find anyone when in reality they could find a million people if they were willing to train someone. Meanwhile the new grads from last years class are all bartending or working per diem in ltc if they are lucky with no benefits. I am relocating out of state for a position.

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Hospitals have never liked hiring new grads. It usually is expected when you enter nursing school that when you get out you will have to work in a nursing home for a few years.

The new grad thing isn't about the nursing shortage... Job openings in hospitals are mostly filling previously filled position, not a new position. So the area has a set number of experienced nurses and they move around positions. There is a shortage, My average pt load is 7 pts... We don't even have time to take breaks and it often takes 1-1.5 hrs after the end of our shift to finish our work.

Hospitals usually go a few years when they don't hire new grads until they get to a point that they have to to fill positions... then they do for a few years.

As far as applying for 500 positions and not getting a job? My guess would be that they are applying to the same places over and over again... After a while HR gets sick of seeing your name.

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What do you mean they´re not hiring New Grads?

But I thought there was this HUGE Shortage, and NO MATTER WHAT, you will always have a job.

Could you please elaborate? Why someone who would apply to 500 jobs and not be working in the Nursing Field?

wow. Where have you been these past 2 years? :lol2:

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wow. Where have you been these past 2 years? :lol2:

Do you think your Mr. FunnyBones or something? This is obviously a serious problem for many people!

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I think it was a valid question. Most of the people who have been looking into the future of nursing as something other than a 'recession proof' job that pays better than counting money on halves have been aware that the nursing shortage - at least in many areas - is a myth.

Yes, it's serious. But it's kind of funny that someone interested in entering the profession is completely unaware of the current job outlook. Not funny hilarious, but funny strange.

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Well, I'm sympathetic to the poster not knowing the nuts and bolts of the employment situation. You really do have to look for this information to find it. I think it's still not widely known among the general public, even though there have been a few news stories. I also think it's embedded in our culture that there are always jobs in healthcare.

I can say for sure that none of the profs at my school ever spoke directly about the difficulty of getting a job as a new grad. What they did say was to not set our sights too high, but did not elaborate. So, the extreme difficulty was news to at least some of us when we graduated in 2009. It should at least be a topic of conversation in the schools. The profs should be counseling students about what to do to enhance their desirability as job candidates: become conversant in a second language, learn a related skill, work in allied health and NOT as a waitress.

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When i graduated in 2009, our dean told us that by graduation, we shouldve had jobs lined up. My batchmates kept running to the dean and associate dean why there are no jobs and were just shoved aside. Now, the 2010 class, they were a little more upfront about it. My sister graduated in that class, and was told they might have to travel a little bit to get employment

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I agree, hotflashion. The nursing school doesn't breathe a word - and there are things that nursing students can do to make themselves more marketable. You listed most, if not all, of them - IMO.

They didn't say anything to the elementary ed graduates, either - though - and here in rural Texas, those grads are having a MUCH tougher time getting employment - there has never been a shortage of kindergarten to fourth grade teachers, so the recession hit that demographic hard and early.

I followed allnurses before I started nursing school - reading about the issues other people were having was why I started connecting and contacting summer after my junior year, and why I started applying in February of my senior year. It helped.

But the fact is - by now - any nursing student that networks with the people in front of them should be well aware of what the job outlook looks like in their region.

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What do you mean they´re not hiring New Grads?

But I thought there was this HUGE Shortage, and NO MATTER WHAT, you will always have a job.

Could you please elaborate? Why someone who would apply to 500 jobs and not be working in the Nursing Field?

Its a tight market in most parts of the country right now, the Shortage started about 10 years ago and schools have steadily been churning students out with new programs opening all the time. If you combine that with the economic situation where nurses are working longer and changing jobs left. My new grad cohort had 105 new nurses but over 900 people applied. Get a job in a hospital that has a residency program as a CA/CNA/ PCT on a unit while in school and work PRN or part-time. Everyone in my graduating class that was already working at a hospital was hired as a nurse at graduation

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