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At the minimum, 3 years experience

Curiously, I am finding a recent trend in job postings requiring a minimum of 3 years RN nursing experience.

This from LTC to Acute care. 6 months ago the trend was 1-2 years for most "minimum" requirements for the majority of staff positions with requests for 3-5 for more advanced positions...

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    I totally believe it. This is what happens when too many nurses are looking for work in local job markets that cannot absorb them all.

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    have seen this too...I live in the south but was looking in metro markets like Portland OR and Seattle WA. Guess they are saturated and can be picky...

    I couldn't even believe that they were requiring 3 years experience in speciality, not just three years.

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    I couldn't even believe that they were requiring 3 years experience in speciality, not just three years.

    I've seen that too, especially for OR positions. OR is such a unique specialty that the trend you mentioned has to eventually come back around to accepting just RN experience, otherwise the well will dry up.

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    Yup, seen 3 years across the board: in-specialty, regular staff acute, LTC.

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    I dunno where the op is located. but the major east coast city I left-- circa 2008 had already begun posting 3-5 years needed in med surg for a med surg job. same with icu for icu, er for er. etc. The postings also specified experience must be up to within the last year and NO NEW GRADS, NO RE RENTRY nurses ( yes they used capitals and those words)It was about the same thing in other huge cities around me. dc, nyc, philly, newark, boston etc.

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