where are the nursing shortages?

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I am hearing that there are shortages in some areas while some are cutting back jobs.

Can anyone tell me for sure where thet know there are nursing shortages in the U.S or Canada.

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:angryfire Hype hype and more hype..........I cannot believe that the majority of people out there are really buying this garbage. This is not about a nursing shortage. There are more than enough nurses here in this country to meet the needs of our people. This is about the bottom line and nothing more. The nurses that left the field left because they were overworked and underpaid. The answer our politicians came up with was to hire from abroad. This situation and our governments response is no different than the legalization and amnesty for mexican imigrants working the agriculture industry. It's there way of maintaining the bottom line for those at the top. This is not to help nurses nor the patients entrusted in our care. Thank you for not being asleep at the wheel. :angryfire

Amen!! I have posted this myself many times...let us not be fooled.

I've lived in WI for 18 years but I am not a native (I'm from NJ). I can pass along what every hospital recruiter has told me.....

People who are from WI love it and no matter where they go, want to come back here. At all costs. Recruiters know that so when they get calls from nurses out of state who want to come back, they know they are leaving a (probably) higher paid area to return. So they make no effort to offer the returnee any great shakes in salary.

They feel that they have people over a barrel because everyone loves WI so much. Personally, I don't get it and the minute I retire I'm outta here. It is safe and good schools and all but a wee bit too xenophobic for me.

Anyhoo, that's the story on WI from my POV. You take a hit coming back, it all depends on how much you have to be here. My boss's daughter just convinced her husband to leave sunny California to return to WI to lesser jobs and dreadful weather. And there are a million more just like her.

And they can have it. When I left Minnesota I was constantly told "you'll be back because you'll miss our quality of life."--- Ha!!

First of all, as pretty and clean as it is, I wouldn't call Minneapolis a reasonably priced city and the not so great nursing wages along with the whopping state tax that gets pulled out of your check certainly didn't help.

And I sure don't miss scraping ice off my windshield and waiting for my car to "warm up" every morning before going to work for half the year. And let's not forget slipping and cracking your tail bone on the not yet salted sidewalks.

I guess everyone has their priorities but if my S.O. even mentioned a desire to move up north I'd tell him to have fun there ALONE.

Why the nurses in MN and WI aren't making a mass exodus to areas with better opportunity is beyond me. Especially the new grads who complain that they can't get into specialty areas or even any hospitals at all without experience and end up working the nursing homes. Sounds like a bleak future for the nurses in the Arctic Circle.

Totally agree!!

There are nurses out there but they don't work in nursing! I know four nurses who don't even practice! They are in a total different field. I know two more nurses going back to school to change professions. All because they want to get out of nursing.

The pay must be more, and the bennies, retirement, and incentives must be better.

Until then, the ICU's will always be short staffed. The floor nurses way over worked. And the patients to suffer.

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AND the facilities happily reap the benefits from the poor conditions they foster...less nurses on staff = clear profit. They do not care if there is a bad outcome because likely some nurse there accepted the assignment. They can turf the liability to the professional nurse and our NPA supports that liability. Conditions out there in too many hospitals I've worked in have greatly deteriorated in the past 25 yrs, and I don't blame American nurses for leaving nursing..I know why they do.

I also know quite a few many nurses(some ICU/specialty) who cannot find work...the hospitals hold out for the new grad/warm cheap body or a pliable import. Make no mistake...the facility wants their profit and they profit by short staffing.

I work for NWTHS in Amarillo. Looking at the UHS website (they own NWTHS) they are offering 24000 sign on to go to Eagle Pass TX for 2 years and 50000 (for 4 years) to work at their new Heart Hospital in McAllen TX. They are short of nurses throughout most of their facillities in Tx.

I'm not from that area....could you give me more information on that? i'm planning to get my ADN in Houston...is there a shortage there too?

There are positions available especially in the border towns. We have a hard time filling mental health clinic positions.

Spring Branch, Tx...it's in the Houston area.

I'm not from that area....could you give me more information on that? i'm planning to get my ADN in Houston...is there a shortage there too?

The front page of the Houston Chronicle this past sunday Feb. 20th healthcare jobs section was the headline: "Critical Care Nurses Needed."

If you could get a copy of it and looked through the want ads I think you'd be quite impressed. Ads for every type of nursing you'd want to do, a lot of them offer internships for new grads or experienced wishing to change specialties. You might be able to see it online, I think it's houstonchronicle.com

Providence RI. Small State with BIG Shortage. Opportunity to work mucho overtime.

Specializes in NICU.

Oh yes, there's a shortage in So Cal. I'm sure some of it is the high population density around here. I also believe part of the problem (well, it's not a problem actually) is the mandatory staffing ratios that we have now. You need more nurses to cover the ratios. Sure we make do sometimes by violating the ratios, but the question wasn't "are y'all making do?" it was "where are the shortages?"

Minnesota, they are everywhere

No shortage in Duluth, MN took 3 months to get a job! :o

Where can one find hard statistics to back a nursing shortage up? Where are the people saying there is a nursing shortage getting their numbers from?

Is there a shortage in the Carolinas??

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