Future Nursing Student- ABC News article that was so interesting!!!

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hello everyone, i'm new to this site. i'm 30 years old and currently going to school full time. i'm pushing through my pre reqs so that i can get into nursing school. i thought this would be a good article to share with anyone out there that's going into the nursing field.

i just hope that i get in to the nursing school... and not have to wait months and months. i'm from sacramento, ca does anyone have any thoughts about scc and if you were accepted and how long it took you to get in.

we need more instructors and facilities! :)

http://abcnews.go.com/business/economy/story?id=6639834&page=1

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Wow, that's an extremely good article! It tells it like it is - it's right on about why there's a nursing shortage, from lack of spots in schools to bad working conditions. Great find :)

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thanks for posting the abc report. just wanted to point out that as quite a few readers responding to the article agreed, the information in the article does not reflect the current situation.

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this article is out of date. many places are cutting back on hiring and not filling nursing vacancies. patient loads are down, partly because of the economy and a lot of people without insurance. example: a person who needs knee surgery can put it off for a while if they have to ... and i have to agree with someone who commented about all the foreigners being imported by various sponsors. they do suppress wages. the insurance and healthcare corporations love to import foreign labor to keep wages down. i also question the average of $62,000. not the case in areas other than the east or west coasts.

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When they say an average...that includes all the well-experienced nurses on the east and west coasts that put in tons of OT! My brother got his ASN 3 yrs ago and made over $100K this year (in Manhattan!)

Also, Get your UNIONS ready.....they are saying there are not enough qualified applicants.....by establishing 1 - 5 yrs experience, they can exclude graduate nurses and hire the H1Bs. In IT they told the government that there weren't enough qualified Americans.....but what they did was say they needed C++ or C#, .NET, .ASP, HTML (all internet and server based technology) for a MAINFRAME position! Why? Because by doing that they could tell the government that there were no "qualified" US applicants and get a passel of cheap programmers from India! In the meantime there are thousands of unemployed IT folks all across the US......BTW, those jobs didn't use the alternate technologies, they just used this to exclude "expensive" US folks.

Nurses need to stand up and expose this for what it is NOW before nursing suffers the same fate! At least they cant ship these jobs overseas like they did to IT!!!!!:banghead:

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This article is so great! It shows both positives & negatives... and reasons we are in such a crisis! AMEN - raise awareness... light a fire under SOMEONE to pay our instructors more, and get more of them... so we can have more nurses out there taking care of our families!!!

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Thank you for responding.

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