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Hi all, I have a quick question. I am about to start a nursing program at a community college in the fall and I am concerned because I heard that nurses with an associates degree are not getting hired, can anyone tell me if this is true?

Very true. These things are usually cyclical. When I started nursing school there was a shortage, when I graduated, I could not find a job. What did I do? I took what I could get (home care, which IMO is not the ideal new grad position), while taking classes towrds a BSN.

As stated by others, the market is not so great right now. With St Vincents closing, there are many many nurses competing for jobs with new grads. When Mary Immaculate and St John's closed last year, the same thing happened.

Also, if a hospital is applying for Magnet recognition, they need a certain percentage of BSN prepared nurses.

As far as the ANA, they have been threatening the BSN entry-to practice-for 40+ years now. God only knows if it'll ever really happen.

hey Nurse educate,

generally speaking how is the home health job market in the city? Is it possible to get full time work (working with several agencies or just one) with 6 months experience as an LPN doing home health?

is the home health market saturated as well in the city?

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SPower, I live in the burbs, but I applied to the Visiting Nurse Service of NYC...at the beginning of this year, I think. VNS offers a great new grad training program, similar to hospital nurse residencies, but they had no openings for new grads at the time. I don't know about any other home health agencies in the city, but in the burbs there are lots of advertised home health jobs with agencies that say they'll train new grads. I never got a call back from any of them, though. My guess is that they're pretty well staffed with all of the experienced nurses that have recently lost their jobs.

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