Chicago's Need for Nurses

[Dangerous]

After reading http://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago_news/Need_a_nurse_Chicago_may_need_11000_nurses_in_years_to_come,31560 and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/city-short-9000-nurses-nu_n_267042.html

I am interested as to why Chicago nurses are not commenting on either of above postings.

I already gave my

[livingthedream, APN]

From what I know, hospitals are short, but don't have the budget to hire.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

It is all about reimbursement: in IL, our medicaid system is in such dire straits that hospitals, pharmacies, providers don't get reimbursed for months. Also - the above poster is correct: there may be a shortage but the hospitals don't have the funds to hire more nurses. This again goes back to Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement.

As to the shortage of educators: pay them more and they will come. I have had an MSN since 2005 but nope, no way could I take such a pay cut to join the educators' ranks.

[TristanT]

Are any hospitals in Chicago hiring new grads? I will happily move to Chicago (from Seattle) for a good RN residency. I just got my BSN and it looks like I'm going to take my RN training and work as a barista again...

[prinsessa]

I have been applying for a new grad position since April.....and no luck! Most of my classmates have had the same problem. So I wouldn't move to Chicago just yet