Good news for CA new grads?

[maiday]

http://www.cinhc.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/New-Grad-Hiring-Dilemma_0209.pdf

Basically the state of CA is giving hospitals money to run a quasi new grad program for 3 months or so to at least get some nurses trained. Once the nurses finish the training, they are more marketable (supposedly) and can get hired where they were trained or somewhere else but not as a new grad.

From the article:

"To quantify the extent of this hiring dilemma, in March of 2009 CINHC surveyed

employers and found that approximately 40% of new graduates may not find jobs in California

hospitals (the usual place of first employment for nurses) as only 65% of hospitals reported hiring

new graduates, and these hospitals were also significantly decreasing the number of new RNs they

plan to hire from the number hired the previous year.xi All hospitals hiring new graduates reported

overwhelming numbers of applicants for few positions."

[SummitRN, BSN, RN]

"Since 2004, schools of nursing have increased educational capacity by 53.5%"

Yep... I wonder if that contributed to the problem!

[maiday]

Yep, they basically sort of created a problem and are now trying to fix it. At least it's something though =)