No nursing shortage: roll call!

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Specializes in CCU, cardiac tele, NICU.

This is a follow-up to the "will the nursing shortage ever end?" post. If there's a glut of new grads and unemployed nurses in your area, post your location. I'll start: Bay Area/NorCal - no jobs here, kids!

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

South Florida..jobs tight for experienced....very, very tight for new grads....lousy pay! Overabundance of nursing schools and new nurses.

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Denver,Colorado...and surrounding suburbs...some new grad internship positions very competitive.

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

Denver, CO - no nursing shortage.

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Spokane and Newport WA. Too many nursing schools and not one new grad program.

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Eastern / Central Kentucky- I have never heard of an umployed nurse. There is definitly not a surplus. I am also in Oklahoma at the moment, and there is definitly a shortage here in the rural areas. To say there is or is not a shortage is a generalization. According to uncle Sam, overall there is still a shortage.

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Just moved from Louisiana, swimmin in New Grads, jobs for those with experience,but not a lot of experience...have to pay u more. Also Texas...swimmin with new grads...(by the way we love you and are glad you are nurses..this lousy economy will pass, people will keep getting older and you will have jobs. When I graduated in the late 80's it was the same. Then there was this great time when they grabbed us by the arm and said, "when can you start?"

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CALLING ALL NEW GRADS:

If you're in California... you're in luck!! The positions will be in Solano County (which I guess is the Bay Area).

I just saw a post on Sac State's Facebook page by someone who wrote that NorthBay Healthcare will be hiring new grads in the next few months.

http://www.facebook.com/sacstatenursing

(scroll down towards the middle on their wall)

http://northbay.org/

ETA: I'm not affiliated with NorthBay. I just saw the post, and wanted to share it with frustrated new grads!

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The island of Oahu, HI. I'm in nursing school and I checked local hospitals for positions last night, every hospital here is hiring. Also Jacksonville, NC and surrounding area hospitals are hiring as well.

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Specializes in labor & delivery.

Phoenix....glut of new grads and very few positions for them, experienced nurses having a hard time as well...there is talk of a hiring freeze in my hospital system...just depends

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Specializes in ER.

Portland Or/Vancouver Wa. Glut of new grads. Glut of experienced nurses even, competition is tough. Very few, but some, new grad positions thru either Versant or a similar type of position, but overall still slow, with clearing on the horizon.

I suspect in another 3 to 5 years we will be back at active Hospital recruiting.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I thankfully am not tied to the area (Southern, MN) I get emails from Mayo (been trying to get my foot in the door as a CNA till i'm done with my ADN in 2 years) without much luck (been a CNA for 6 years, never done acute care) just keeping my fingers crossed. All the Intership positions want you to be in a 4 year program... which I can't afford /pout

When I gradumacate I will move wherever I have to go to get that 1 year of acute care experience, just hope it all works out

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