Discouraged in nursing school now

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Hi Ladies, I keep hearing about it being a shortage on nursing jobs. On this site many people have said it's hard to get a job as a new grad. I'm in school now, I have at least 4 semesters left. I'm starting to get so discouraged, am I in the right field? I have always had a passion for nursing and now I have the opportunity to go back to school full time I am doing it.

I have to admit I am worried I will finish school and there will be no jobs waiting for me.

Help anyone....

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Well, I'm not a lady, but I can tell you that personally, I have seen jobs open up. It has always been difficult to get a job as a new grad, even when I graduated in may 2008. Hardest part is just to get your foot in the door, after that finding a job becomes easier. Don't give up in school yet, things may change in 2 years.

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Well, I'm not a lady, but I can tell you that personally, I have seen jobs open up. It has always been difficult to get a job as a new grad, even when I graduated in may 2008. Hardest part is just to get your foot in the door, after that finding a job becomes easier. Don't give up in school yet, things may change in 2 years.

Thanks for your response! Didn't mean to exclude you! LOL! Your right, things can definitely change in 2 years.

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Stay in school! Stay focused and finish. Things can and do change.

I graduated in 1983,no one was hiring new grads. I worked part time at

our hospital through school on weekends, and was very lucky to

be hired upon graduation. If I did not have that job, heaven only

knows how long it would have been to get a job.

Here is the interesting part, the students who graduated in 1982, had so

many offers as new grads they were confused on what job to take!

So, just stay focused and finish, things have a way of working out!

Good luck! (from an old RN;))

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You may not find a nursing job in your town. I don't see a hiring problem in my area. Think of it as a regional problem. If you want to be a nurse don't quit. If you could do something else instead while you're in school that would be marketable then investigate it.

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You could work as a PCT or CNA at a local hospital, maybe just the weekends. Those jobs can even be hard to get. My advice: apply, follow up, go visit the hiring manager, tell them why they should hire you. Then a few years down the road you're an obvious choice for their next RN hire.

Or not. In any case, the job prospects for RNs are going to be a heck of a lot better than the job prospects for nursing school dropouts, no matter what the damned economy looks like in two years.

Chin up, yeah?

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I am in my 4th semester of a 5 semester ADN program and I must admit that this idea of no jobs be available when I graduate to be very disheartening. The more and more I thought about this and asked around what I generally saw was that the people who were claiming that there were no job opportunities for them, were the people who wanted to work at THIS hospital on THIS floor on THIS shift and were not flexible at all in their options, so naturally they would be less inclined to find a job as opposed to someone who was willing to bend thier desires in order to get a job. I have an idea of where I would like to work and in what specialty but I'm not stupid and I am starting to accept the fact that I will take what I can get when I graduate (to some extent). I am not expecting to have a job opportunity handed to me on a silver platter; I fully anticipate it being hard to find something but who knows maybe I will be proved wrong. Apparently when I tell people what area I want to work in they all say that it's totally not for them and wish me luck, so hopefully there won't be many going for what I want to do...wishful thinking I know. Keep your head up, don't get discouraged, it will work itself out :)

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I do wonder how many people are 'cherry' picking for that perfect job and are upset when one doesn't materialize in front of them. Nobody graduates from business school and goes right into a CEO job. There are areas though that I think are especially hard hit right now (California seems like one of the worst) where the schools are just pumping out new grads are there simply aren't any places to put them.

I think one needs to be willing to take a reasonable offer even if it is not your 'dream' position.. or at the very least apply for jobs that are less than appealing for you...

And honestly- who knows what the market is going to be like in a couple of years?? Anything can happen between now and then. I think when it comes to nursing.. one shouldn't be scared away by the possibility of NO jobs... Nursing is not going to become obsolete anytime in our lifetime. Don't worry about jobs and focus on school. Cross the job bridge when you get to it.

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I do wonder how many people are 'cherry' picking for that perfect job and are upset when one doesn't materialize in front of them. Nobody graduates from business school and goes right into a CEO job. There are areas though that I think are especially hard hit right now (California seems like one of the worst) where the schools are just pumping out new grads are there simply aren't any places to put them.

I think one needs to be willing to take a reasonable offer even if it is not your 'dream' position.. or at the very least apply for jobs that are less than appealing for you...

And honestly- who knows what the market is going to be like in a couple of years?? Anything can happen between now and then. I think when it comes to nursing.. one shouldn't be scared away by the possibility of NO jobs... Nursing is not going to become obsolete anytime in our lifetime. Don't worry about jobs and focus on school. Cross the job bridge when you get to it.

thank you so much.....

that last line is just what i needed to read~

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Thanks for all the responses!!

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