Anyone else's local hospitals doing this?

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Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.

Was looking at a local hospitals career page(overly curious, of course), and in a bright yellow box they have posted "We will not be accepting anymore RN New Grads."

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this? Kind of made me sad.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Yes I have seeen it in some places.

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Specializes in Oncology, Critical Care.

they may not be seeking new grads because of oversaturation. This occurs in places such as New York City, California, boston, and general places that have so many unemployed nurses that for the same pay as a new nurse, they can take an experienced nurse and have less training necessary.

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Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.

I guess I just didn't really expect it from my area. I'm from Northern Nevada, Reno area. But apparently it's starting to impact rural areas too.

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I have not seen anything like that where I live. Maybe 10% of job openings around here say "experience required".

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Specializes in Public Health.

Come on down to Vegas! Valley health sys, HCA and St. Rose hospitals all have New grad programs and UMC hires new grads as well!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

I can see several reasons for this:

Financial

-new grads are expensive to train and generally require a longer orientation than experienced nurses

Patient safety

-skill mix is important in patient care. If all nurses on a floor/shift are recent grads, who can the inexperienced nurses go to with questions?

Previous experiences with new grads

-several nurses are only looking to get that year or two of experience before applying to advanced practice schools (NP, CRNA). The hospital may have gotten burned by this and is looking to reduce occurrences.

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Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.
Come on down to Vegas! Valley health sys HCA and St. Rose hospitals all have New grad programs and UMC hires new grads as well![/quote']

I would if the cost of living wasn't more lol!

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Specializes in ICU.

I haven't exactly seen that, but there is a specific way to hire new grads in my area. Local hospitals will only take new grads on through academies or residencies, which only take a few people. It's frustrating because the hospital I worked at as a CNA had over 200 RN positions listed on their career website... but new grads could not apply for them, and they took very few people into their residencies this year. Hospitals just don't like new grads.

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I think it's a variety of that everywhere. Why hired a new grad for $22/hour when you can hire an experience nurse for the same?

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And I of course don't agree with this ^^ because soon we will all be getting paid $13-$15/ hour because people need to feed their kids after spending $50k on a associates. It's nutty.?

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I think the lowest pay I have seen for a new grad is around 19/hour and the highest at 26/hour. However there are places that pay for traveling nurses upwards of 35-40/hour with a 6 month committment and a housing stipend, so if you have no kids, like to travel and dont mind continously moving, there are alot of job out there in this field

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