If the job market isn't so great for new graduates,why are you still pursuing a RN

[Back2Nursing09]

...degree.Why not pursue another health related career that is in demand??

[studentrn4me]

hi

i am an lpn who is currently attending college .Over the years i have seen a decline in hospitals hiring nurses. Not there isn't nursing jobs out there, its just that due to medicaid and medicare cuts to hospital budgets hospitals aren't hiring as many nurses especially RNs right now. Due to the economy many retired nurses have returned back to the field. But yet even on the radio you hear about how healthcare is the way to go especially nursing. Hospitals are closing down.Its a hard challenge...

[SingDanceRunLife]

I can truly see myself as a nurse. I also think that the job market will be better in 3 years when I graduate and am looking for work...and if it's not, then I'll either work for the hospital that my college of nursing is affiliated with or spend a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. I'm not doing this for the money at all. After I get some experience, I want to work abroad with Haiti being my first choice of where. After that, I want a masters so I can work as an NP.

[Nurse_Tricia, LPN]

Once the economy evens out the shortage will be on full force. Right now you have nurses that were stay at home moms returning into the field because their husbands were laid off or are unemployed. And don't forget the shortage was based on the baby boomers retiring. Many of them have prolonged their career until they gain back what was lost in the market or until they are more secure with their retirement funding.

When there is uncertainty, people who normally do not work full time or work only prn take the regular positions for security. Can you blame them? It will turn around. Just a matter of when.

[Grnrn]

It goes in cycles up and down every 5 years or so... It will come back up, believe me! Sit tigh or settle for other nursing area for now and then move on.... My 2 cents.

[Risgirl]

I agree with most on here, I am going into nursing because it's what I was meant to do, it's a calling! I am a second time student in my mid 30s so I know what it's like to have a good paying career but not really feel any passion for what you are doing. I have an Uncle that always says "Do what you love, do it the best you can and you'll always be successful because your passion will shine through". To me the only reason I stress about the economy and getting a job when I graduate is because I LOVE what I'm doing and wish I was finished with school so I could be working as an RN already!